There are only a few hours left for the Academy 2025 Academy award ceremony, which will be held tomorrow, Monday, to celebrate the most important films in 2024. Although the various prices of the prices are mainly English films in English, we find a single award for films in foreign languages, whose name has recently been changed for the best international film in Oscar.
This year’s best international film Prize is in competition for 5 works by Latvia, Denmark, France, Germany and Brazil, each with a different taste, including an animated film as well. This category of Oscars may not precisely represent the best films in English of the year, but it is a measure of the most important international films that have received the attention of the public and many international festivals.
It is noted in the films this year the absence of Arab action, despite the arrival of the Palestinian film “from the Distance Zero” at the short list, which presents stories filmed by Palestinian directors after the flow of Al -aqsa.
Emilia Pérez-France
“Emilia Pérez” is one of the lucky ones to win the Academy Award, and has already been presented at the Cannes Film Festival, where he won the Jury Award, as well as the best actress of Carla Sophia Gascon.
The film revolves around cooperation between the lawyer Rita Mora Castro (Zoe Saandana) and Emilia Perez (Carla Sophia Gascon), after the latter has deposited gangs and tries to start a new life for herself and her family, and worked in civil society as an institution concerned about the search for forced disappearance in Mexico. However, she cannot possibly escape her bloody and violent past.
The film “Emilia Perez” combines the two cinematographic types: Gangs and Music, which distinguishes it from many competing films in the Oscars this year. He is a Spanish spokesperson and revolves around Mexico, while actress and singer Selena Gomez, who recently made a Beginning in the United States due to her sympathy for Mexican immigrants, and his anger against Trump’s anti-immigrant policies. This may be likely to win numerous prizes, given the dissatisfaction of many Hollywood celebrities of the president.
“Flux” – Latvia
“Flow” is an animated and adventure film, and it revolves around a group of animals, led by a cat, trying to survive after the rains of the globe were flooded with flooding, while humans have disappeared, and water levels have increased to the point that animals forced to learn navigation, so that you can survive.
The film was presented for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival in the “Look” and won numerous awards, in particular animation festivals. This is the first Latvian film to win the Golden Globe Award, and also the first Latvia film to appoint an Oscar, and he is also in competition for the best animated film of the Oscars.
“The Flow” of a silent film, its industry did not give their animals voices or words like many other animated films, but the most important thing that distinguishes philosophy that makes its characters move, which is the philosophy of salvation which makes creatures of different races with synergy, and learn to cross the large universe until it literally reaches the survival beach.
The girl with the needle
The film “The Girl With The Needle” was shown for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival in the official competition, and it was nominated for the best international film at the Oscars and Golden Globe, even if it has not won the latter.
The Film Takes Place in the Last Days of the First World War, where we get to know Caroline Who Lives on the Subseistence After Her Husband Stopped Her Correspondence During His Presence On the Front, So She Thinks that he died, and She begins to deal as a widow, and demand that Work widows, but he refuses to not be the Death of Her Husband, and begins to exploit her, which hearing her into more complications that she forced to make that changes her life forever.
The film was only filmed in black and white, which contributes to clarifying the tragic life of the heroine, who represent many women who become victims of decisions they do not take, such as war, or unfair labor laws which separate them and their salary colleagues, and the class that governs society.
“I’m still there” – Brazil
The film “I’m Still Here” should be the black horse of this year, although it was drowned in the locality, because it deals with a hard story of Brazilian history, but it was able to leave the narrow setting of his country to become one of the most important films 2024. In addition to his candidacy for a better international Oscar film, he is also a candidate for the price of the best actress in a major role, and the best film in general, to become the first Brazilian film to receive this honor.
“I am still there”, adapted from the true story of the Brazilian politician “Robins Pavia”, who retired from politics and sought to live a calm and happy life with his big family, but overnight, he became a victim of the Brazilian dictatorial regime in the 70s, where he was arrested, then he disappears completely and the authorities of Deny in the 70s. Supporting her family and, at the same time, to demand that the government announces the location of her husband, or puts her body back, to become a political activist and one of the most important symbols of the Brazilian opposition.
“The seed of the sacred figure” – Germany
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, the latest film by Iranian director Mohammad Raoulouf, which was sentenced before the screening of the film directly to the Cannes Film Festival with 8 years in prison, but he managed to escape before implementing the verdict to attend the red carpet for the first of his film, which won the special jury prize.
The film mixes reality and imagination, and we find documentary images of the Iranian demonstrations in 2022-2023, mixing with the imaginary history of an investigation judge in the revolutionary court of Tehran, suddenly losing his pistol and suspected of his two daughters. In order to force them to recognize this crime, which threatens not only his work, but his parental authority and his respect for himself, his family kidnaps in a remote location, and decides to put them under pressure like any accused in a criminal case, but events accelerate in unexpected instructions.
The film tries to dismantle the reasons behind the demonstrations, by placing this small family as an example of modern society, to represent the dynamics of ambiguous relations between the father, his wife and his two daughters, a mirror of these relationships between power and members of society. When the family conforms to the father, it appears as an ideal affectionate person, but as soon as one of its members appears a gesture of rebellion, it turns into a monster capable of harming everyone.
Most films nominated for the price of best international film this year focus on the problems of women, two friends of “Emilia Perez” trying to change society and to fight against forced disappearances, to the “girl with a needle” in which the heroine is forced to carry out the most shine actions because of the vulnerability in his company, and the political activist who defends his husband ” Sacred fig seed. “
However, the closest to these films to win the Prize is “I am still here”, which not only provides a hard realistic story, is always repeated in many countries in the world despite the change of time, but also one of the best representative performances of the year.