Por
Javier Mitchell
Una cifra récord de 71 países,
incluyendo algunos que participan por primera vez, como Kenia, han remitido
sus mejores films para ser considerados
en la categoría de Mejor Película
Extranjera en los próximos 85th
Academy Awards®.
El listado de films remitidos es el
siguiente:
- Afghanistan, "The Patience Stone”, Atiq Rahimi, director;
- Albania, "Pharmakon", Joni Shanaj, director;
- Alemania, "Barbara", Christian Petzold, director;
- Algeria, "Zabana!",Said Ould Khelifa, director;
- Argentina, "Infancia Clandestina", Benjamín Ávila, director;
- Armenia, "If Only Everyone", Natalia Belyauskene, director;
- Australia, "Lore", Cate Shortland, director;
- Austria, "Amour", Michael Haneke, director;
- Azerbaijan, "Buta" ,Ilgar Najaf, director;
- Bangladesh, "Pleasure Boy Komola", Humayun Ahmed, director;
- Belgica, "Our Children", Joachim Lafosse, director;
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Children of Sarajevo" Aida Begic, director;
- Brasil, "The Clown", Selton Mello, director;
- Bulgaria, "Sneakers", Valeri Yordanov and Ivan Vladimirov, directors;
- Cambodia, "Lost Loves" ,Chhay Bora, director;
- Canadá, "War Witch", Kim Nguyen, director;
- Chile, "No", Pablo Larraín, director;
- China, "Caught in the Web", Chen Kaige, director;
- Colombia, "The Snitch Cartel", Carlos Moreno, director;
- Corea del Sur, "Pieta" Kim Ki-duk, director; Croatia, "Vegetarian Cannibal", Branko Schmidt, director;
- Czech Republic, "In the Shadow", David Ondrícek, director;
- Dinamarca, "A Royal Affair", Nikolaj Arcel, director;
- España, "Blancanieves", Pablo Berger, director;
- Estonia, "Mushrooming", Toomas Hussar, director;
- Filippinas, "Bwakaw", Jun Robles Lana, director;
- Finlandia, "Purge", Antti J. Jokinen, director;
- Francia, "The Intouchables", Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, directors;
- Georgia, "Keep Smiling", Rusudan Chkonia, director;
- Grecia, "Unfair World", Filippos Tsitos, director;
- Groenlandia, "Inuk", Mike Magidson, director;
- Holanda, "Kauwboy", Boudewijn Koole, director;Hong Kong, "Life without Principle", Johnnie To, director;
- Hungría, "Just the Wind", Bence Fliegauf, director;
- Islandia, "The Deep", Baltasar Kormákur, director;
- India, "Barfi!", Anurag Basu, director;
- Indonesia, "The Dancer", Ifa Isfansyah, director;
- Israel, "Fill the Void", Rama Burshtein, director;
- Italia, "Caesar Must Die", Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, directors;
- Japón, "Our Homeland", Yang Yonghi, director;
- Kazakhstan, "Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe" Akan Satayev, director;
- Kenya, "Nairobi Half Life", David 'Tosh' Gitonga, director;
- Kyrgyzstan, "The Empty Home", Nurbek Egen, director;
- Latvia, "Gulf Stream under the Iceberg", Yevgeny Pashkevich, director;
- Lithuania, "Ramin", Audrius Stonys, director;
- Macedonia, "The Third Half", Darko Mitrevski, director;
- Malaysia, "Bunohan", Dain Iskandar Said, director;
- Mexico, "After Lucia", Michel Franco, director;
- Marruecos, "Death for Sale", Faouzi Bensaïdi, director;
- Noruega, "Kon-Tiki", Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, directors;
- Palestine, "When I Saw You", Annemarie Jacir, director;
- Peru, "The Bad Intentions",Rosario García-Montero, director;
- Poland, "80 Million", Waldemar Krzystek, director;
- Portugal, "Blood of My Blood", João Canijo, director;
- República Dominicana, "Jaque Mate", José María Cabral, director;
- Rumania, "Beyond the Hills" ,Cristian Mungiu, director;
- Rusia, "White Tiger", Karen Shakhnazarov, director;
- Serbia, "When Day Breaks", Goran Paskaljevic, director;
- Singapur, "Already Famous", Michelle Chong, director;
- República Slovak, "Made in Ash," Iveta Grófová, director;
- Slovenia, "A Trip", Nejc Gazvoda, director;
- Sud Africa, "Little One", Darrell James Roodt, director;
- Suecia, "The Hypnotist", Lasse Hallström, director;
- Suiza, "Sister", Ursula Meier, director;
- Taiwan, "Touch of the Light", Chang Jung-Chi, director;
- Thailandia, "Headshot", Pen-ek Ratanaruang, director;
- Turkía, "Where the Fire Burns", Ismail Gunes, director;
- Ukrania, "The Firecrosser,", Mykhailo Illienko, director;
- Uruguay, "The Delay", Rodrigo Plá, director;
- Venezuela, "Rock, Paper, Scissors", Hernán Jabes, director;
- Vietnam, "The Scent of Burning Grass", Nguyen Huu Muoi, director.
Las nominaciones del los 85th Academy Awards serán anunciadas el
Jueves 10 de Enero del 2013, a las 5:30 a.m. hora del Pacífico, en el Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Los Academy Awards 2012 serán
presentados el Domingo 24 de Febrero del 2013, en el The Dolby Theatre™ del Hollywood & Highland Center®, y serán
televisados en vivo por la cadena ABC
Television Network. La presentación
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