Representatives of Ukraine, Morocco and Egypt were appointed for the Oscar competition

Charso Press: Quoted from Hollywood Reporter“20 days in Mariupol” documentary heartbreak From Mstislav Chernov About the siege of the Ukrainian port city by Russia during the festival Sundance has been shown, was introduced as the representative of Ukraine to the 96th Academy Awards.

This movie by Chernov Associated Press Ukrainian journalist and photographer colleague Eugene Maloltka It is built, the destruction of the port city Mariupol Below, it documented the bombing of Russia in early 2022.

This documentary is the first directorial Chernov is the world cinema documentary award Sundance made it his own. Chernov And Maloltka along with his colleagues Vasilisa Stepanenko And Laurie Hinant This year’s Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of Mariupol they received.

At the same time, Variety reported that Marrakesh also made a documentary titled “The Mother of All Lies”. names introduced Al-Madir to Oscar. This movie is the month may In the type section, look at the display of income, with The manager It starts with him wanting to know why he only has one photo from his childhood and why the girl in the picture isn’t him.

to get to the truth The manager and his father build a miniature set of their old neighborhood and bring the whole family to the stage and try to unravel the story. He slowly begins to interrogate his mother, father, and grandmother about what they have told them about their home and country, in order to begin to understand the layers of deception and willful forgetting that have shaped his life.

The manager Director, screenplay the writer He is a producer living in Paris and Rabat and has made short documentaries for Al Jazeera, BBC and Arab TV. “Mother of all lies” is his first feature film.

Egypt toowow, wow, wow» A dark comedy written and directed by Omar Hilal has been selected for Oscar competition, which is about a security guard named Hassan, who lives a poor life with his mother and who, by joining the blind football team in one of the World Cup tournaments in Europe, intends to travel to abroad. Pretending to be a visually impaired player, he meets a reporter who is interested in writing about the team. This movie is inspired by a real event. Egypt has participated in the Oscar competition since 1958, although there have been interruptions in this participation.

The deadline for submitting works to the best feature film section international It is October 2.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the Oscar 2024 nominees on December 21, and the final 5 nominees will be announced on January 23, 2024. The 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10, 2024.

While 47 countries have nominated their representatives so far, Luxembourg made the “last ashes”. Loyk Tanson“Slow” Lithuania by Maria Kavtaradze, Latvia “My Freedom” by Liz conga MaljalIceland made “God’s Land”. Hainor Palmason And Greece built “behind the haystacks”. Asimina Prodro have been introduced to Oscar.