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Canada is sending Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy to this year's International Oscar race. The film is directed by Deepa Mehta, whose 2005 pic Water was Canada's submission that year and was Oscar nominated. Funny Boy, which is in Tamil, English and Sinhalese, depicts a young boy's sexual awakening in Sri Lanka during the…

South Korea, which saw its 2020 International Oscar submission Parasite not only win that prize but also take an unexpected Best Picture triumph, has selected its entry for next year’s race. The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has put forward The Man Standing Next, Woo Min-ho's historical political thriller which has been…

Jasmila Zbanic's Quo Vadis, Aida?, which debuted at Venice this year, is Bosnia's entry for the 2021 International Oscar race. The movie follows the titular Aida, a translator for the UN in a small town in Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for…

The Czech Republic has become the latest country to name its selection for this year's International Oscar race, choosing Agnieszka Holland's biographical drama Charlatan. The film premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year and was selected for Telluride before that event was cancelled. It has also been a box office…

Georgia has become the latest country to submit its entry for this year's International Oscar Race, selecting Beginning, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature that was a hit at the recent San Sebastian Film Festival. The film swept the top awards at the Spanish fest, winning best film, director, actress and screenplay…

EXCLUSIVE: And they're off! Poland is first out of the blocks this year by naming its submission to the 2021 International Oscar race – Malgorzata Szumowska's Never Gonna Snow Again. The comedy drama is set to premiere in Competition at this year's Venice Film Festival. The Italian event is pressing on with plans to…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's the debut U.S. trailer for Corpus Christi, Jan Komasa's Polish drama that was Oscar shortlisted this week. Film Movement has North American rights to the pic and is opening the film on February 19, initially at New York's Film Forum. The film has been a box office hit in its native Poland, attracting…

EXCLUSIVE: Truth And Justice, the Estonian debut feature that was one of the more unexpected inclusions on the Academy's International Feature Film Oscar shortlist earlier this week, has been snapped up by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique. The film is a historical epic running at 149 mins that follows an…

EXCLUSIVE: Here you can check out a new trailer for The Whistlers (La Gomera), the thriller that Romania has submitted as its entry to the 2020 International Oscar race. The film follows Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist…