Oscars, the awards of the
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will be given for the
86th time in
2014. The nominations will be announced on
January 16th and the presentation of the Awards will be on
Sunday, March 2.
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Film was created in 1956 and is been given every year since then. Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. The submissions from the Balkan countries that will compete for a place in the final five nominations are completed and we meet some of the best and most awarded films of the last year.
Romania`s submission is
Calin Peter Netzer`s
Child Pose, the winner of
Berlinale`s Golden Bear. The film is about a 60-year-old woman who puts all her skills, contacts and money into preventing her son, involved in a tragic accident, from going to prison.
Class Enemy by
Rok Bicek is Slovenia`s submission. The film was nominated for
The Lion Of Future in
Venice Film Festival where it won the
Fedeora Award and also won seven
Vesna Awards including Best film at
Slovenian Films Festival at Portorose.
Child`s Pose
The multi awarded
Circles by
Srdan Golubovic is Serbia`s submission. The film won among many others the
Special Prize at Sundance Film Festival and the
Award of the Ecumenical Jury in Berlin.
Croatia`s submission is
Halima`s Path by
Arsen Anton Ostojic, a film that tells the tragic but inspiring story of a good-natured Muslim woman who tries, without success, to identify the remains of her son who was killed in the Bosnian War and buried in one of the many mass graves.
Halima`s Path
Montenegro`s submission, the first ever, is
Drasko Djurovic`s
Bad Destiny, a film set in the nineties about to brothers trying to escape in Italy.
The Dream of a Butterfly by
Yilmaz Erdogan is Turkey`s submission. The film is based on a true story and portrays the relationship of two young poets during World War II, their deep frienship, their love for literature and poetry and all the difficulties they have to face in a changing world.
Agon, a film by
Robert Budina, is the Albanian submission, a co-production with Greece and France.
The Academy informed the film center of Kosovo that their submission would not be eligible because the country is not a member of the UN.