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90th Oscars. Oscar Contenders of 2017 - For prediction, discussion, entertainment purposes only
PART 1 - AFGHANISTAN TO FRANCE (29 films)
92 OFFICIAL SUBMISSIONS THIS YEAR. A RECORD
Updated October 29th
Chart info / text by Dzong and Nathaniel R
Finland to Norway
Pakistan to Yemen
HQ - Predictions and Trivia
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Afghanistan A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT Roya Sadat minutes TEXT Not Selected:Director’s Fortnight winner Wolf and Sheep, a drama about children in a shepherding village Trivia: Afghanistan was disqualified in both of the past two seasons |
Albania DAY BREAK Gentian Koci minutes TEXT Not Selected: Distant Angels, a new drama about the war in neighboring Kosovo, and the first film by Gjergj Xhuvani (Slogans) in eight years |
Algeria ROAD TO INSTANBUL Rachid Bouchareb minutes TEXT Not Selected: Let Them Come, about a man and his secular family trying to survive amidst a tide of Islamic fundamentalism, and I Still Hide to Smoke (starring Hiam Abbass), an ensemble film set in a women’s sauna.
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Argentina ZAMA minutes a 17th century historical drama based on a beloved novel. Despite years of critical acclaim this is the first time Argentina has submitted a Martel film Not Selected: Initially people thought they'd send Santiago Mitre’s La cordillera starring well known actors Ricardo Darin and Paulina Garcia. |
Armenia YEVA Anahit Abad minutes TEXT Not selected: Mysteriously disqualified last year, Armenia had other options this year including Good Morning, an idealistic journalist drama, the documentary The Last Wish or the comedic thriller Bravo Virtuoso |
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Austria HAPPY END 107 minutes TEXT Not selected: |
Azerbaijan POMEGRANATE ORCHARD 90 minutes Based on Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard”
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Bangladesh THE CAGE minutes TEXT Not SelectedThe country's censors banned the expected frontrunner No Bed of Roses starring popular international actor Irffan Khan so the race was wide open. |
Belgium RACER AND THE JAILBIRD A reunion for the director and star of the Oscar nom'ed Bullhead. Matthias Schoenaerts is a gangster who falls for a driver (Adele Excharpoulos) in this crime drama Not Selected: |
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Bolivia DARK SKULL minutes a dark thriller set in the country’s tin mines. It won Best Picture at the Cartagena Film Festival. |
Bosnia & Herzegovina MEN DON'T CRY 98 minutes Drama about a talk therapy group bringing together veterans from all three ethnic armies that fought during the Bosnian Civil War of the 1990s. |
Brazil BINGO: KING OF THE MOUNTAINS minutes Can Brazil cover from their Aquarius debacle last year (such a great film that they refused so send!) Not Selected: The Great Mystical Circus a historical drama. Director Carlos Diegues has been selected to represent Brazil six times, and at 77 (and in semi-retirement), this is likely to be one of his last films. |
Bulgaria
minutes A film about a media frenzy over a suddenly rich man Not Selected: Godless about a drug addict nurse or the black and white title Memories of Fear which swept their local Academy Awards in June. |
Cambodia
minutes Not Selected: Up until Angelina Jolie showed up, the frontrunner was expected to be Diamond Island, a drama about a country boy who falls in love in the big city |
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Canada HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS minutes TEXT Not Selected: The Mandarin language thriller Old Stone was a Best Pic nominee at the Genie Awards, Zacharius Kunuk also had a new film, the Arctic western Searchers |
Chile A FANTASTIC WOMAN minutes The film has already been a prize winner elsewhere but Lelio wasnt Oscar nominated for Gloria, but should have been! |
China WOLF WARRIOR 2 Wu Jing minutes Not Selected: Feng Xiaogang's I Am Not Madame Bovary,Wasted Times (w/Zhang Ziyi) and B&W arthouse Summer is Gone |
Colombia GUILTY MEN 115 minutes Not Selected: |
Costa Rica THE SOUND OF THINGS minutes The movie that won their national film festival. It's about a nurse traumatized by her cousin's suicide. Not Selected: Abrazame como antes which is about trans prostitutes. |
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Croatia QUIT STARING AT MY PLATE 105 minutes The promiscuous teenage daughter of a poor family tries to keep things together after the father is disables and unable to provide. Not setected: Other winners of their Pula Film Festival were The Constitution (about societal prejudices) and A Brief Excursion (a slacker drama). |
Czech Republic ICE MOTHER minutes TEXT Not Selected: Little Crusaders a medieval drama Barefoot, by Jan Sverak (of Kolya fame) which is a comedic drama about a little boy send to the countryside to escape the fighting of WWII. |
Denmark YOU DISAPPEAR minutes An embezzlement drama at a school Not Selected. The other finalists were a revenge thriller named Darkland and the memoir Word of God about a family with a domineering eccentric father. |
Dominican Republic WOODPECKERS 106 minutes Called Carpinteros in Spanish, this is about male prison inmates who invent a secret sign language to communicate with the women’s prison next door. |
Ecuador ALBA minutes TEXT Not Selected: Killa one of the country's first film in the indigenous Quechua language, about a journalist facing off against a mining corporation |
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Egypt SHEIKH JACKSON 93 minutes This one, said to be quite a crowdpleaser, is about an Islamic cleric who loves Michael Jackson Not Selected: |
Estonia NOVEMBER 115 minutes As expected they went with the surreal black and white fairy tale like film which took Best Cinematgoraphy at Tribeca Film Festival. Not Selected: |
Finland TOM OF FINLAND 115 minutes a biopic of the famous artist of gay erotica. There is a lot of English in this picture (Tom travels to America for a portion of the film) but probably not enough to disqualify it. |
France BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) minutes This Cannes sensation is a masterpiece of political drama and enormously moving and humane, too. |
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