We're up to seven official contenders in Oscar's Best International Feature Film category. Only 85ish more to go! Canada and Germany have made their selections, one is surprising the other is exactly what everyone expected...
🇨🇦 ETERNAL SPRING
Canada (7 nominations, 1 win, and 3 additional finalists from 47 submissions)
This is an animated documentary focused on the comic book artist Daxiong and China's persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual group that led to his immigration to Canada. It's been making its way through the festival circuit since March. This is a surprising choice from Canada in that they've never before sent either a documentary (though that's becoming more commonplace) or an animated feature. Animated docs are fairly rare as submissions though two have been nominated previously: Israel's Waltz with Bashir (2008) and Denmark's Flee (2021)
🇩🇪 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Germany (20 nominations, 3 wins, and 5 additional finalists from 61 submissions)
As everyone expected -- hell, some people were claiming it as fact long before it was on social media -- Germany will be submitting this World War I drama, based on the same book that already produced a Best Picture winner of the same name back in 1930. Netflix will distribute the film.
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Pg 1 - Albania through Greece
Pg 2 - Haiti through Norway
Pg 3 - Palestine through Vietnam
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