More International Submissions including Agnieszka Holland's "Charlatan"
by Nathaniel R
We're up to 14 announced submissions for this year's Best International Feature Oscar so those submission charts are updated with the following films added
- Algeria - Héliopolis
- Czech Republic - Charlatan
- Ecuador - Emptiness
- Kosovo - Exile
- Singapore - Wet Season
We've only had the pleasure of seeing one of these five newly announced titles so far, Wet Season (which was a Golden Horse nominee last year). I liked it at TIFF in 2019 though I thought it erred on the side of being too much of a "slow burn" if you know what I mean. But a year later I'll admit that I think of it surprisingly frequently so even though I was a thumbs up, I underestimated it! It's an emotionally complicated story of an unhappy teacher who becomes way too involved with the life of her lonely student (they're pictured above).
But back to the submissions, of the 14 films we know about so far 6 are from female directors! How about that? One of those female directors is a regular, in point of fact...