Recently, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced the top 9 shortlisted for the 87th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Films, Chinese films, Japan, South Korea have not been selected, even the Oscar judges have always loved France, Spain and other European countries of the film did not appear, is not a big cold. The final list of best foreign language film nominations will be announced on January 15.
The Liberator (Venezuela)
The Liberator focuses on Bolivar— the most prominent leader of the Latin American independence movement of the 19th century, who led the wars of independence in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and other places between 1810 and 1830, and was the founder of the South American republican system. Bolívar went to Spain to study philosophy, history and literature, traveled to many places in France and Italy, and was inspired to see the reforms and changes in European society after the French Revolution.
"The Liberator" was filmed in South America and Europe, the production scale is quite large, tossing 13 locations, completing more than 100 different scenes of shooting, mobilizing up to 10,000 actors, is the largest independent film in the history of South American cinema, can be called the South American version of "Braveheart".
Tourist (Sweden)
The story takes place in the Alpine ski resort, a Swedish family encounters an avalanche during a meal, and the husband Thomas only cares about his own life and does not save his wife and children, causing a family crisis.
Sister Ida (Poland)
On December 13, 2014, at the 27th European Film Awards, the Polish film Sister Ida won five awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Audience Choice Awards, becoming the biggest winner of the European Film Awards.
The story is about Poland in 1962. Anna is an orphan who grew up in a convent. Before taking the oath to become a nun, she left the convent to meet Wanda, the only remaining relative in the world. Wanda tells Anna that she is Jewish. The two women embark on a journey that will not only unearth the tragedy that belongs to their family, but also find their true belonging. They began to question their previous beliefs, everything they had trusted in their previous lives. Both Anna and Wanda want to live, but only one of them can.
The Accused Nurse (Netherlands)
Based on sensational true news events in the Netherlands, Lucia de B., a 46-year-old nurse, was sentenced to life in prison by a Court in The Hague in 2006 on charges of murdering seven patients and attempting to murder three others between 1997 and 2001. The controversial case lasted 8 years, and the nurse finally overturned the charges against him, making the case one of the worst miscalculation cases in Dutch judicial history. From the initial conviction, to the unexpected reversal, and finally to the bureaucratic corruption within the medical system, there is only one place to go in the face of resistance. The film is short and concise, relaxed, concise and powerful, and it has a huge psychological gap in emotion, like letting people see a beam of light in the night.
Kumquat (Estonia)
Mandariinid is an anti-war film co-produced by Estonia and Georgia that premiered in 2013 at the Warsaw Film Festival in Poland.
It tells that during the 1990 Abkhaz War, the Estonian Ifo was forced to leave behind the harvest of kumquats, and the bloody conflict hit his doorstep, and a wounded man was left behind, and Ifo was forced to take him in.
Tales of the Wild (Argentina)
The Wild Story, directed by Damian Szfron, an Argentinian comedy, consists of six separate short stories about the current situation and life of Latin American society, with many laughs and tears.
The Island of Crops (Georgia)
The film is almost dialogue-free, telling the story of a pair of grandfathers and granddaughters living on a small island on the border between the two countries, and there is nothing else in their lives to disturb them except farming and fishing.
But the growing girl has a crush on the German soldiers who come to patrol the island, and Grandpa is bound to block this relationship...
Timbuktu (Mauritania)
Timbuktu is the fourth feature film directed by Mauritanian director Abdramana Hisako, who tells a tragic reality in restrained camera language: the African people of the Sahara Desert, silent under an unnatural reign of terror, ignored by the world.
The film was previously shortlisted for the main competition section of the 67th Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
Leviathan (Russia)
Leviathan (Левиафан) is a 2014 Russian drama directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, starring Aleksei Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova and Vladimir Vdovichenkov. The film was shortlisted for the main competition section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay Award.
The film takes place in a small village near the Barents Sea, but it can also happen in any country where personal interests clash with the interests of the regime and it is possible to determine in advance who will win the battle. The insatiable mayor set his sights on the house where Nicholas lived and tried to take over the land for nothing— in effect, by force. The mayor behaves rudely, everything is under his control, from the police station to the court, he knows how to tame the disobedient ...