At the end of March 2022, the so-called "Oscars", the "Academy Awards", are scheduled to take place in Los Angeles for the 94th time. Among the awards will be an "Oscar" for Best International Film. The prize, which until 2019 was called the "Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film", was first awarded in 1957 when it went to Federico Fellini's "La Strada - The Song of the Road". In the meantime, numerous candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, hoping to make it onto the shortlist, from which the winning film is in turn chosen. Among the films entered by the respective national film centres or ministries of culture are eight titles that screened at the FFC last year or can be seen there from 2 to 7 November, including this year's competition entries COMPARTMENT NO. 6, 107 MOTHERS, LEAVE NO TRACES and BRIGHTON 4TH, while OASIS 2020 screened in the FFC competition. The amateur acting ensemble of Marijana Novakov, Tijana Marković and Valentino Zenuni won the award for Best Acting Performance at the time. Here is a listing of the FFC titles currently competing for a nomination for the Academy Award for Best International Film (the countries from which they were submitted are underlined). BRIGHTON 4TH, SISTERHOOD and LEAVE NO TRACES were pitched in the script development phase at our co-production market connecting cottbus.
107 Mothers (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine) – Feature Film Competition FFC 2021
After the Winter/Posle Zime (Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia) – Spectrum FFC 2021
Brighton 4th (Georgia, Bulgaria, Russia, Monaco, USA) – Feature Film Competition FFC 2021
Compartment No. 6/Abteil Nr. 6 (Finland, Russia) – Feature Film Competition FFC 2021
Hive/Zgjoi (Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania, Northern Macedonia) – Hits FFC 2021
Leave No Traces/Żeby nie było śladów (Poland, France, Czech Republic) – Feature Film Competition 2021
Oasis (Serbia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France) – Feature Film Competition FFC 2020
Sisterhood/Sestra (North Macedonia, Montenegro) – U18 Youth Film Competition FFC 2021
Commitment Hasan/ Baglilik Hasan (Türkei) – Specials
The Auschwitz Report/Správa (Slowakei, Czech Republic, Deutschland 2022) – Spotlight: Slovensko