Singapore has never reached the nomination stage at the Oscars, with this being the country’s 15th entry.
The film debuted at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in November 2020, and was released in Singapore in April 2021. It is the first feature from Taiwan-born Peng, an established director of commercials. Singapore: Precious Is The Night (Wayne Peng)Ī murder drama set in 1960s Singapore after making house calls to a mysterious affluent family, a doctor finds himself entangled in a web of deceit, sex and lies. The country is still waiting for its first Oscar nomination from eight previous attempts. Benaim represents Panama for the third time on the Oscar stage, after Ruben Blades Is Not My Name for the 2019 awards and Invasion, the country’s first entry, for 2015.
In a haunting echo, Plaza Catedral centres on a woman who, while mourning the loss of her 13-year-old son in an accident, has her life turned upside down when teenager Chief (de Casta) asks her help after being shot in street conflict. de Casta and Ilse Salas won the best actor and actress awards at Guadalajara Film Festival, where the film debuted in October 2021. Panama’s Oscar entry has already been beset by tragedy the film’s lead actor Fernando Xavier de Casta was killed earlier this year, aged just 15, in reported gang violence. Latest submissions Panama: Plaza Catedral (Abner Benaim)
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The 2021 awards saw 93 submissions, with nominations for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, Hong Kong’s Better Days, Romania’s Collective, Tunisia’s The Man Who Sold His Skin and eventual winner Another Round from Denmark. A shortlist of 15 finalists is scheduled to be announced on December 21, with the final five nominees announced on February 8, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is November 1, 2021. Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between Januand December 31, 2021. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.Īn international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features. The 94 th Academy Awards will take place on Maat the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry ‘Precious Is The Night’, ‘Plaza Catedral’Įntries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
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