Let Them Come, about a man and his secular family trying to survive amidst a tide of Islamic fundamentalism, and I Still Hide to Smoke (starring Hiam Abbass), an ensemble film set in a women’s sauna.
Not Selected: Initially people thought they'd send Santiago Mitre’s La cordillera starring well known actors Ricardo Darin and Paulina Garcia.
the serial killer film Die Holle (from the Oscar winner behind The Counterfeiters),or Best of All Worlds about a heroin addict mother.
Not SelectedThe country's censors banned the expected frontrunner No Bed of Roses starring popular international actor Irffan Khan so the race was wide open.
a dark thriller set in the country’s tin mines. It won Best Picture at the Cartagena Film Festival.
Drama about a talk therapy group bringing together veterans from all three ethnic armies that fought during the Bosnian Civil War of the 1990s.
Not Selected: The Great Mystical Circus a historical drama. Director Carlos Diegues has been selected to represent Brazil six times, and at 77 (and in semi-retirement), this is likely to be one of his last films.
Not Selected: Godless about a drug addict nurse or the black and white title Memories of Fear which swept their local Academy Awards in June.
The film has already been a prize winner elsewhere but Lelio wasnt Oscar nominated for Gloria, but should have been!
The movie that won their national film festival. It's about a nurse traumatized by her cousin's suicide.
Not Selected: Abrazame como antes which is about trans prostitutes.
The promiscuous teenage daughter of a poor family tries to keep things together after the father is disables and unable to provide.
Not setected: Other winners of their Pula Film Festival were The Constitution (about societal prejudices) and A Brief Excursion (a slacker drama).
Not Selected: Little Crusaders a medieval drama Barefoot, by Jan Sverak (of Kolya fame) which is a comedic drama about a little boy send to the countryside to escape the fighting of WWII.
Not Selected. The other finalists were a revenge thriller named Darkland and the memoir Word of God about a family with a domineering eccentric father.
Called Carpinteros in Spanish, this is about male prison inmates who invent a secret sign language to communicate with the women’s prison next door.
As expected they went with the surreal black and white fairy tale like film which took Best Cinematgoraphy at Tribeca Film Festival.
a biopic of the famous artist of gay erotica. There is a lot of English in this picture (Tom travels to America for a portion of the film) but probably not enough to disqualify it.
This Cannes sensation is a masterpiece of political drama and enormously moving and humane, too.