According to ISNA, this film, which is considered the first work of Eva Natna, won five awards at the Iris Film Awards in Greece, and its selection became controversial after a dispute between the Ministry of Culture and the Greek Film Academy (Helfiak), and as a result, 20 titles were awarded. The film was excluded from the selection process of the representative of Greek cinema.
Also, as expected, Senegalese cinema chose French-Senegalese director Matthias Depope as its official representative for the documentary “Dahomey”. This documentary won the Golden Bear Award for the best film at the 74th Berlin Film Festival.
The Belgian cinema also sent the film “Julie Keeps Quiet” by Leonardo van Dyjl to the Oscars 2025, and the Portuguese presented the film “The Grand Tour” by Miguel Gomez, which won the best director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, as its chosen film to the Academy. they did
The Netherlands chose the movie “Memory Line” directed by Jelle de Jong, Serbia the movie “Russian Consul” directed by Miroslav Lekić, and Slovenia also chose the movie “Family Therapy” directed by Sonia Prusnik as their movie in the 2025 Oscar competition.
According to Screen, previously the Oscar committee of Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Morocco, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Cambodia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Turkey, Iraq, Palestine, South Korea, Taiwan, Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia , Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine have also announced their selected film to the Oscar Academy.
The deadline for sending works to compete in the best film category of the International Oscar is November 14, 2024 (November 24). The list of preliminary nominees for international Oscar contenders will be announced on December 17 (December 27) and the final nominees will be announced on January 17, 2025 (December 27).
Previously, countries such as Japan, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Iraq, Latvia, Lithuania, Palestine, Taiwan and Uruguay have introduced their selected films to the Academy.
Last year, Jonathan Glazer’s film “The Favorite Zone” won the Oscar for the best international film on behalf of British cinema.
The 96th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025 (March 11).