Which film will follow on from ‘Roma’ in winning the prize?
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
- 9/5/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Which film will follow on from ‘Roma’ in winning the prize?
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
- 9/3/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Instinct, the psychological thriller starring Game of Thrones‘ Carice van Houten and Aladdin‘s Marwan Kenzari, has been chosen by The Netherlands as the country’s official selection in the Oscars’ International Feature Film race.
The pic, which won an award for its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival and is prepping for its North American premiere this month at Toronto, is from first-time feature director Halina Reijn. The plot revolves around and experienced psychologist working in a penal institution who becomes obsessed with a sex offender who appears to be ready to return to society. (See a trailer below.)
Topkapi Films produced in a co-production with Man Up and Bnnvara, and is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, the Netherlands Film Production Incentive en CoBo Fund. Films Boutique is handling international sales...
The pic, which won an award for its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival and is prepping for its North American premiere this month at Toronto, is from first-time feature director Halina Reijn. The plot revolves around and experienced psychologist working in a penal institution who becomes obsessed with a sex offender who appears to be ready to return to society. (See a trailer below.)
Topkapi Films produced in a co-production with Man Up and Bnnvara, and is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, the Netherlands Film Production Incentive en CoBo Fund. Films Boutique is handling international sales...
- 9/2/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Finland has chosen Selma Vihunen's Stupid Young Heart, a love story about a young couple that drifts into the neo-Nazi scene, to represent the country in next year's Oscar race in the international film category.
Jere Ristseppa and Rosa Honkonen star as Lenni and Kiira, a mismatched high school couple. He's a scrawny skateboard punk, and she's the popular dance team captain. But they hook up and, when Kiira gets pregnant, Lenni begins to look for guidance, and the father figure he never had, in Janne (Ville Haapasalo), a charismatic member of a far-right extremist group. Lenni ...
Jere Ristseppa and Rosa Honkonen star as Lenni and Kiira, a mismatched high school couple. He's a scrawny skateboard punk, and she's the popular dance team captain. But they hook up and, when Kiira gets pregnant, Lenni begins to look for guidance, and the father figure he never had, in Janne (Ville Haapasalo), a charismatic member of a far-right extremist group. Lenni ...
Finland has chosen Selma Vihunen's Stupid Young Heart, a love story about a young couple that drifts into the neo-Nazi scene, to represent the country in next year's Oscar race in the international film category.
Jere Ristseppa and Rosa Honkonen star as Lenni and Kiira, a mismatched high school couple. He's a scrawny skateboard punk, and she's the popular dance team captain. But they hook up and, when Kiira gets pregnant, Lenni begins to look for guidance, and the father figure he never had, in Janne (Ville Haapasalo), a charismatic member of a far-right extremist group. Lenni ...
Jere Ristseppa and Rosa Honkonen star as Lenni and Kiira, a mismatched high school couple. He's a scrawny skateboard punk, and she's the popular dance team captain. But they hook up and, when Kiira gets pregnant, Lenni begins to look for guidance, and the father figure he never had, in Janne (Ville Haapasalo), a charismatic member of a far-right extremist group. Lenni ...
Which film will follow on from ‘Roma’ in winning the prize?
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
- 9/2/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Vilhunen’s 2016 film Little Wing also debuted at Tiff.
Finnish sales company The Yellow Affair has acquired worldwide rights to Selma Vilhunen’s Stupid Young Heart, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema strand.
The project is written by Kirsikka Saarì, who collaborated with Vilhunen on the Oscar-nominated short Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?. Vilhunen’s 2016 film Little Wing also debuted at Tiff.
Stupid Young Heart revolves around two suburban teenagers who discover they are expecting a baby. Lacking a father figure himself, Lenni latches on to a member of a right-...
Finnish sales company The Yellow Affair has acquired worldwide rights to Selma Vilhunen’s Stupid Young Heart, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema strand.
The project is written by Kirsikka Saarì, who collaborated with Vilhunen on the Oscar-nominated short Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?. Vilhunen’s 2016 film Little Wing also debuted at Tiff.
Stupid Young Heart revolves around two suburban teenagers who discover they are expecting a baby. Lacking a father figure himself, Lenni latches on to a member of a right-...
- 9/10/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
It was fun to laugh back in January when Donald Trump spoke to the media about how he wanted fewer immigrants from “shithole” countries and more from the likes of Norway. We laughed because it was obvious what the difference between the two was for him, but there’s a growing trend towards radical right populism and nationalism over there too. Just as Nazis have come out of the woodwork in America under their rebranded moniker “alt-right,” nations such as Finland have been combatting their own fair share of racial unrest targeting Muslim immigrants. And while you wouldn’t think so at first, Selma Vilhunen’s latest film Stupid Young Heart depicts the resurgence.
Before this underlying trend infiltrates Kirsikka Saari’s script, however, the story arrives as a document of young love and responsibility between Lenni (Jere Ristseppä) and Kiira (Rosa Honkonen). The two prove an odd match in...
Before this underlying trend infiltrates Kirsikka Saari’s script, however, the story arrives as a document of young love and responsibility between Lenni (Jere Ristseppä) and Kiira (Rosa Honkonen). The two prove an odd match in...
- 9/9/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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