When Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy “broke” the Cannes Critics Week selection six years ago with the devastating “The Tribe,” casting deaf actors in an institutional parable exclusively told through sign language, it seemed some sort of event horizon for authenticity and formal daring had been reached. But the deserving Best European Film winner in the Giornate sidebar of the 2020 Venice Film Festival, “Oasis,” which is director Ivan Ikic’s second feature after 2014’s raw and rattling football-hooliganism drama “Barbarians,” may outmatch even that benchmark. An unadorned three-way love story set within the joyless confines of a Serbian institute for people with mental disabilities, it is an unsparing though enrichingly shot tragedy, and its three young stars, as well as most of the background cast, are learning-disabled residents of the facility in real life.
The approach lends the slight story an impressive gravity, while also treating its subjects with profound respect — a quality...
The approach lends the slight story an impressive gravity, while also treating its subjects with profound respect — a quality...
- 9/16/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/19/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Slovenia has selected Ivan, directed by Janez Burger, for best foreign-language film Oscar consideration.
Ivan is focused on Mara, a young woman caught amid a violent corruption affair and forced to make an impossible choice between the man she obsessively loves and her newborn son, Ivan.
In September 2017, the film swept the Slovenian Film Festival, taking eight prizes, including best film, best screenplay, best cinematography and best actress for female lead Marusa Majer. It went on to be screened at a number of other festivals, including Pula Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Ivan is Burger's fifth feature....
Ivan is focused on Mara, a young woman caught amid a violent corruption affair and forced to make an impossible choice between the man she obsessively loves and her newborn son, Ivan.
In September 2017, the film swept the Slovenian Film Festival, taking eight prizes, including best film, best screenplay, best cinematography and best actress for female lead Marusa Majer. It went on to be screened at a number of other festivals, including Pula Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Ivan is Burger's fifth feature....
- 9/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Slovenia has selected Ivan, directed by Janez Burger, for best foreign-language film Oscar consideration.
Ivan is focused on Mara, a young woman caught amid a violent corruption affair and forced to make an impossible choice between the man she obsessively loves and her newborn son, Ivan.
In September 2017, the film swept the Slovenian Film Festival, taking eight prizes, including best film, best screenplay, best cinematography and best actress for female lead Marusa Majer. It went on to be screened at a number of other festivals, including Pula Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Ivan is Burger's fifth feature....
Ivan is focused on Mara, a young woman caught amid a violent corruption affair and forced to make an impossible choice between the man she obsessively loves and her newborn son, Ivan.
In September 2017, the film swept the Slovenian Film Festival, taking eight prizes, including best film, best screenplay, best cinematography and best actress for female lead Marusa Majer. It went on to be screened at a number of other festivals, including Pula Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Ivan is Burger's fifth feature....
- 9/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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