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Why 'Beginning' Director Filmed Sexual Assault Scene Quietly, From a Distance

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Why ‘Beginning’ Director Filmed Sexual Assault Scene Quietly, From a Distance
TheWrap magazine: “Everyone can feel the terror of this moment, and I thought as a director I don’t need to emphasize anything,” says director Dea Kulumbegashvili
By Steve Pond | January 22, 2021 @ 1:56 PM
A version of this story about “Beginning” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
First-time director Dea Kulumbegashvili began her film career making short films at the New School and Columbia University in New York City, but for her first feature, she returned to the small town in Georgia (the country, not the state) where she grew up. The film, “Beginning,” is set in a rural community at the feet of the Caucasus Mountains, and follows a former actress who gave up her career to be with her Jehovah’s Witness husband.

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How a Severed Hand Led to Taiwan's Oscar Contender 'A Sun'

TheWrap magazine: "I imagined that the incident happened on a rainy day, and the hand dropped into a hot pot," says director Chung Mong-hong

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From Battling Brain Cancer to Directing an Oscar Contender: Maria Sodahl's Dramatic Journey to 'Hope'

TheWrap magazine: "I hate sentimental cancer movies, and I didn't want to do something like that," Sodahl says of turning her own diagnosis into art

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How India Whipped Up the Year's Wildest, Craziest Oscar Entry With 'Jallikattu'

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How India Whipped Up the Year’s Wildest, Craziest Oscar Entry With ‘Jallikattu’
TheWrap magazine: “I wanted you to compare the film to what the world actually is,” says director Lijo Jose Pellisserry of his film that descends in rampaging chaos
By Steve Pond | January 21, 2021 @ 12:30 PM
Last Updated: January 22, 2021 @ 11:57 AM
A version of this story about “Jallikattu” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
In a field of Best International Feature Film submissions that includes a handful of horror movies, some excruciatingly drawn-out art films and at least one severed hand bobbing in a cooking pot, India probably has the wildest, craziest film of all in Lijo Jose Pellissery’s “Jallikattu.”

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'Charlatan' Director on Why Films Need to Deal With Politics

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‘Charlatan’ Director Explains Why Films Need to Deal With Politics
TheWrap magazine: “We have so many challenges and dangers with authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, and filmmakers cannot pretend that it is not going on,” says Agnieszka Holland
By Steve Pond | January 21, 2021 @ 11:21 AM
A version of this story about “Charlatan” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Agnieszka Holland is one of Europe’s busiest directors, and a constant presence in the Oscar race. Her film “Angry Harvest” was nominated as West Germany’s entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 1985; her 1990 drama “Europa Europa” landed her a screenwriting nomination; and her films “In Darkness” and “Spoor” represented Poland at the Oscars, with the former receiving a nomination in 2011.

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How Guatemalan Horror Film 'La Llorona' Used Genre to Examine Genocide

TheWrap magazine: Director Jayro Bustamante says his Oscar entry was a way to use horror elements to examine issues that viewers don't want to talk about

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How Mads Mikkelsen Got His Buzz on for Oscar Contender 'Another Round'

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How Mads Mikkelsen Got His Buzz on for Oscar Contender ‘Another Round’
TheWrap magazine: “It was an interesting premise to dive into the idea of what positive stuff comes out of alcohol,” Mikkelsen said
By Steve Pond | January 14, 2021 @ 11:24 AM
Last Updated: January 14, 2021 @ 11:26 AM
This story about Mads Mikkelsen and “Another Round” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Like the guy at the party who’s had a few too many, the filmmakers and cast of “Another Round” had a tough time finding their balance. Director Thomas Vinterberg, co-writer Tobias Lindholm and a cast led by Mads Mikkelsen were making a film in which the lives of a group of high school teachers improve (to a certain point) when they decide to stay a little drunk all the time — and if it was hard to figure out the right tone, it could have been catastrophic if they didn’t.

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From 'Unorthodox' to 'Asia' - Inside Shira Haas' Busy Pandemic

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From ‘Unorthodox’ to ‘Asia’ – Inside Shira Haas’ Busy Pandemic
TheWrap magazine: “Being at my home when all this amazing craziness is happening helps me to process it, maybe,” says the actress who stars in Israel’s Oscar entry
By Steve Pond | January 14, 2021 @ 1:02 PM
This story about Shira Haas and “Asia” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
She has had a very unusual pandemic. At a time when Shira Haas has mostly been at her home in Tel Aviv, the 25-year-old Israeli actress has become an Emmy nominee and something of a star for her role in “Unorthodox,” the Netflix series that became a lockdown sensation. And while that was happening, she also won the best actress award at the Tribeca Film Festival — the festival didn’t take place but the jury still watched films and voted — for her role in Ruthy Pribar’s delicate but wrenching “Asia,” in which Haas plays a teenage girl trying desperately to have a normal adolescence despite a degenerative motor disease.

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