Spain has selected the Odyssey of the director of spirit of the director Oliver Laxe “Sirât”, as an official entry for the best category of international films with 98th Academy Awards.
“Sirât” was the subject of a high-level pick-up for North America by Neon, announced the festival of the Cannes environment after its world premiere in the main competition, raising the question, as Variety Note on the way in which the American distributor will juggle four high -level titles selected by their country for the Oscar race: the “sentimental value” of Joachim Trier, representing Norway; “The Secret Agent” by Kleber Mendonça Filho, advanced by Brazil; “No other choice” by Park Chan-Wook for Korea and now “Sirât” for Spain. It’s a good problem, however.
The announcement of submission of Spain was made Wednesday by Pablo Berger, who marked an animated appointment of feature films last year for “Robot Dreams”, while his Mute Mute Blancheanieves was chosen as a Spanish entrance for the 2013 Oscars.
The choice was based on a vote of the members of the Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinema Sciences after numerous projections of films during the summer, which were reduced to three finalists: “Sirât”, “Romería” by Carla Simon and “Deaf” by Eva Libertad.
As for the submissions made for the international functionality of the Oscars by Brazil on Monday (“The Secret Agent” of Kleber Mendonca Filho) and in Colombia yesterday (“a poet”), the decisive factor that influenced the voters seems to have been “Sirât’s”, the Cannes Cannes Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival; A world first in main competition that has sparked elegant criticism – Variety Hailed “Sirât” as a Road Road Trip in an extremely tense, growing and crazy way through a purgatory of the desert – and a price of the Cannes jury which marks Lamp as now a major Spanish author.
The Factory match has sold major markets worldwide, guaranteeing more attention from voters who are spreading more and more from the United States. Including in Spain, “Sirât” was published on June 6 by Bteam Pictures and had brought back a robust 2.7 million euros ($ 3.2 million) before September 7.
A conscious step towards a wider audience of Laxe, facilitated by the support of the biggest TV / Svod Movistar Plus +, “Sirât” also counts among his co -producers on Pedro and Agustin’s Almodóvar’s El Deseo, who has a more important experience to mark the appointments and victories of the Oscars and any other society in Spanish history.
The submission of “Sirat” also marks a great success for Movistar Plus + which announced that its first production list of films of films in January 2024, including “Sirât”, composed of what Guillermo Farré, Movistar Plus + chief of original films and Spanish cinema, called the films “Event Author”. These are of course films that resonate with members of the Hollywood academy and outside.
