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Parasite made history in 2020 when it became the first foreign-language film ever to win the Academy Award for best picture. Here are Asia’s 10 best hopes this year.
SHARE The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made some changes to the way films are being shortlisted for the International Feature Film category (formerly named the Best Foreign Language Film) in the 93rd Academy Awards. This is owing to complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic. What happens usually is that the main committee of volunteers from the Academy choose their seven picks, then a smaller International Film Executive Committee adds three more titles – generally referred to as "saves" – to create a shortlist of 10 films. However, in 2021, the main committee...
SHARE While the pandemic may have shuttered cinemas and put productions on ice around the world, it has also been a history-making 12 months for filmmakers from the Arab world. Sameh Alaa's short film I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face, which became the first Egyptian film to be nominated for the Palme d'Or, won the top prize at Cannes this year, while filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala's You Will Die at Twenty became the first film to be officially submitted by Sudan for Oscars consideration. Here, we take a look at some of the regional filmmakers and actors who rightly found themselves in the spotlig...
Middle East cinema: The seven must-see films of 2020 Festivals and cinemas shut due to the pandemic, but some movies were still able to make a critical impact From left: Radiograph Of A Family; Ghosts director Azra Deniz Okyay; and Ahmed Hammoud in Zanka Contact (copyright details, see films below) By Published date: 28 December 2020 10:14 UTC | Last update: 2 months 2 weeks ago The express train that is Middle Eastern cinema hit the buffers this year as the global film industry came to a halt amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The shockwaves...