The final result will be published on September 23rd […]
The 97th Academy Awards® will take place on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA. And Brazil can be there.
Recently, the Brazilian Film Academy released the list of films nominated to compete for a place among the nominees for the award for best international feature film.
Among the strong competitors are national productions that have received applause at international festivals, such as I’m still here, by Walter Salles, and Destination Motelby Karim Ainouz.
First, however, the Selection Committee will meet in two phases: on September 16, when six titles will be selected from those registered, and the final meeting to choose the title that will represent Brazil in the competition for a place in the Best International Film category at the Oscars®️ 2025, on the 23rd of the same month.
See the list of registered Brazilian films
WITHOUT HEART
Directed by: Nara Normande and Tião
Summer 1996, coast of Alagoas. Tamara is enjoying the last weeks in the fishing village where she lives before leaving to study in Brasilia. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed “Heartless” because of a scar on her chest. Over the course of the summer, Tamara feels a growing attraction to this mysterious girl.
SAUDADE MADE A SPEECH HERE
Directed by: Haroldo Borges
Bruno is a 15-year-old boy who is irremediably losing his sight. With all the uncertainties of adolescence, amplified by the impending blindness, the film converts the tragic fate of its protagonist into a story of collective learning.
NO ONE COMES OUT OF HERE ALIVE
Directed by: André Ristum
In the early 70s, young Elisa is forcibly admitted by her father to the Psychiatric Hospital in Cologne, because she is pregnant by her boyfriend. After suffering many abuses, Elisa, together with other offended colleagues, will fight to find a way to escape this branch of hell.
TO LIFT
Directed by: Lillah Halla
The future freedom and autonomy of Sofía, a young volleyball player, are threatened by a conservative and violent herd effect. On the eve of the volleyball championship that will be decisive for her future as an athlete, SOFÍA (17 years old) discovers an unwanted pregnancy.
THE HIJACKING OF FLIGHT 375
Directed by: Marco Baldini
In 1988, worker Nonato rebelled against the president and the difficulties of a country in crisis and orchestrated the hijacking of a commercial flight to attack the Palácio do Planalto.
RED MONET
Directed by: Halder Gomes
Johannes Van Almeida is a painter of women without acceptance in the market. With his eyesight increasingly deteriorating and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, he finds in Florence Lizz the inspiration to create his masterpiece. Antoinette Lefèvre is an influential dealer of art that senses the value of works of art when stories of inspiration become an obsession between painters and models.
VOTES
Directed by: Angela Patricia Reiniger
The documentary investigates the reasons that push people, in the 21st century, to pronounce the vows of Conversion of the Customs (poverty and chastity), Obedience and Stability (living and dying in the same place), and to choose to live in isolation, entering monastic life.
STOMACH 2 – THE POWERFUL CHEF
Directed by: Marcos Jorge
The fantastic and entertaining journey of the “anti-hero” Raimundo Nonato and his philosophical-culinary adventures continues. Sixteen years after the events of the first film, Nonato becomes the prison chef of chefs, enchanting both the prison director and the veteran leader of the inmates with his culinary talent and his tasty words.
CITY CAMPAIGN
Director: Juliana Rojas
The film presents two stories about migration between the city and the countryside. In the first part, after a dam collapse floods her homeland, rural worker Joana moves to São Paulo to visit her sister Tânia. In the second, Flávia moves with Mara, her partner, to the farm inherited from her father, who recently passed away. Nature forces the two women to face frustrations and deal with memories and ghosts.
I’M STILL HERE
Directed by: Walter Salles
In the early 1970s, in Rio de Janeiro, the country was faced with the hardening of the military dictatorship. One day Rubens Paiva is captured by undercover soldiers and disappears. Eunice, whose search for the truth about her husband’s fate will last decades, is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new future for herself and her children.
HALF OF US
Directed by: Flavio Botelho
Francisca and Carlos struggle to adapt to their new reality after the suicide of their only son, Felipe. Immersed in fantasies, fears and melancholy, the couple separates and each lives radical experiences in their own way.
DESTINATION MOTEL
Directed by: Karim Ainouz
The Destino Motel of the title is a roadside hotel run by Elias and his beautiful, frustrated wife Dayana. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself at the motel after failing to pull a job and escaping the police and the gang he had failed, Dayana finds herself intrigued and lets him stay.
Source: Terra
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