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A boozy Mads Mikkelsen comedy from Denmark, a Netflix musical drama from Mexico and an elderly lesbian romance from France are among the Oscars hopefuls on the best foreign film shortlist announced Tuesday.
Fifteen contenders for the international feature film Academy Award were selected from 93 eligible submissions, and will be whittled down to five nominees next month, before April’s Oscars ceremony.
Danish tragicomedy Another Round stars former James Bond villain Mikkelsen as a middle-aged alcoholic who vows to get drunk every day, as part of a pseudoscientific experiment featuring three fellow school teachers.
The movie, which bagged a Golden Globe nomination last week, debuted at last year’s Toronto festival, and was dubbed an “engaging tribute to friendship, family and bacchanalian hedonism in moderation” by The Hollywood Reporter.
It will compete with Mexican teen drama I’m No Longer Here, set within the colorful Latin American musical tradition of cumbia, and France’s Two of Us, about a pair of retired women who have kept their passionate affair secret for decades.
Last year’s international Oscar went to South Korea’s Parasite, which became the first winner to also scoop overall best picture.
The country failed to make this edition’s shortlist, with East Asia represented by Taiwan’s acclaimed family drama A Sun and Hong Kong’s high-school bullying saga Better Days.
But Parasite distributor Neon will hope for repeat glory with Ivory Coast’s Night of the Kings, a mystical fable told within the walls of the African country’s notorious Maca prison.
La Llorona, a modern political retelling of the folklore horror tale, set among ruthless military leaders and indigenous tribes, hopes to become Guatemala’s first nominated film.
Romania and Tunisia — also never nominated — made the cut with their submissions too.
Submissions from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Czech Republic, Iran, Norway and Russia round off the international feature film list.
Italy’s submission Notturno did not feature on the international shortlist, even though no country has won more Oscars in the category than the land of Federico Fellini.
But Notturno, about everyday people fleeing devastating Middle East conflicts, made the best documentary Oscar shortlist — also unveiled Tuesday — instead.
It will compete with disability documentary Crip Camp from the Obamas’ production house, as well as Wuhan pandemic hospital film 76 Days, Texas teen politics portrait Boys State and prison system feature Time.
This year’s Oscars, delayed by the pandemic, take place April 25.
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