Months ahead of the next year’s red carpet ceremony, Croatia, Romania, Kosovo and Bosnia have already chosen their own movies for the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s candidate for the Academy Awards Foreign Language Film category is Aida Begic’s “Never Leave Me”, the Bosnian Association of Filmmakers Committee decided on Thursday.
“Never leave me” is a story of pain, the meaning of life and friendship between orphans featuring three Syrian boys living a tough life as refugees in a mythical Turkish city. The film was shot on location in Turkey with children who are actual Syrian refugees.
The movie is the result of a co-production between Bosnia and Turkey. It premiered at last year’s Antalya Film Festival and was screened at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.
It will be screened in theatres in Bosnia from Thursday having been shown at various festivals worldwide, including the Edinburgh Film Festival, a press release from Bosnian Association of Filmmaker’s notes.
Croatia
“The Eighth Commissioner” by filmmaker Ivan Salaj is Croatia’s nominee for the 91st Academy Award nominations.
Frano Maskovic, the lead actor, told BIRN that being the Croatian candidate for the Oscars was a great honour and he hopes they will justify that trust.
“This would be the first time Croatia was nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign language film category, though of course we already had one Oscar – Vusan Vukotic won an Oscar for best animated short in 1961,” Maskovic said.
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