Jonathan Glazer’s Cannes-winning Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest has been selected as the UK’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.
The film was selected by BAFTA, the organization appointed by the American Academy to choose the UK’s submission. To be eligible, a British film must be predominantly non-English language and released theatrically between 1 December 2022 and 31 October 2023. The Zone Of Interest was shot on location in Poland with largely German and Polish dialogue.
Written and directed by Glazer, based on the novel by the late Martin Amis, the film stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, with a score by Oscar-nominated musician Mica Levi and cinematography by Łukasz Żal (Cold War).
Story follows Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig, who strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
The film was selected by BAFTA, the organization appointed by the American Academy to choose the UK’s submission. To be eligible, a British film must be predominantly non-English language and released theatrically between 1 December 2022 and 31 October 2023. The Zone Of Interest was shot on location in Poland with largely German and Polish dialogue.
Written and directed by Glazer, based on the novel by the late Martin Amis, the film stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, with a score by Oscar-nominated musician Mica Levi and cinematography by Łukasz Żal (Cold War).
Story follows Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig, who strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
- 9/21/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The U.K.’s Channel 4 has commissioned Wonderhood Studios to produce a documentary film charting the life of Angel Lynn, a young woman who suffered severe life-changing injuries while trying to escape an abusive relationship.
The life of Lynn, an 18-year-old college student from Loughborough with ambitions to become a forensic scientist, changed forever when she started a relationship with Chay Bowskill – it soon started to become increasingly coercive, controlling, as well as mentally abusive. Eventually, after she claimed that Bowskill had injured her by violently throwing her against a wall, Lynn took the decision to leave him. While what happened next is unclear, Lynn apparently fell out of a van driven by Bowskill.
Lynn’s condition improved from a coma, and she has since then been making a slow recovery, including recently taking some small steps, but she still remains unable to communicate to the police or her family what actually happened to her.
The life of Lynn, an 18-year-old college student from Loughborough with ambitions to become a forensic scientist, changed forever when she started a relationship with Chay Bowskill – it soon started to become increasingly coercive, controlling, as well as mentally abusive. Eventually, after she claimed that Bowskill had injured her by violently throwing her against a wall, Lynn took the decision to leave him. While what happened next is unclear, Lynn apparently fell out of a van driven by Bowskill.
Lynn’s condition improved from a coma, and she has since then been making a slow recovery, including recently taking some small steps, but she still remains unable to communicate to the police or her family what actually happened to her.
- 3/27/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Saoirse Ronan attends the British Academy Scotland Awards Photo: Getty Images for BAFTA
The stars were out in force for last night's BAFTA Scotland awards, which celebrate the best of the country's film and television output. This year's Best Feature winner was, unusually, a documentary, Chloe Fairweather's dying to divorce, which looks at the frequency of domestic violence in Turkey through the stories of women visiting divorce lawyer Ipek Bozkurt. The director won the the BAFTA Cymru Breakthrough Award earlier this year. Despite taking the top award, it did not win in the Best Documentary category, with that award going to Lizzie MacKenzie's The Hermit Of Treig, which took the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival back in March.
Jack Lowden was hailed as Best Actor for his portrayal of war poet Siegfried Sassoon in biopic Benediction, and the Best Actress award went to Izuka Hoyle for her work in Boiling Point.
The stars were out in force for last night's BAFTA Scotland awards, which celebrate the best of the country's film and television output. This year's Best Feature winner was, unusually, a documentary, Chloe Fairweather's dying to divorce, which looks at the frequency of domestic violence in Turkey through the stories of women visiting divorce lawyer Ipek Bozkurt. The director won the the BAFTA Cymru Breakthrough Award earlier this year. Despite taking the top award, it did not win in the Best Documentary category, with that award going to Lizzie MacKenzie's The Hermit Of Treig, which took the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival back in March.
Jack Lowden was hailed as Best Actor for his portrayal of war poet Siegfried Sassoon in biopic Benediction, and the Best Actress award went to Izuka Hoyle for her work in Boiling Point.
- 11/21/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Representation in the arts matters, and for young, up and coming stars representing a minority, it’s important and powerful to be recognised, and vitally, to be seen. BAFTA seemingly agree – and are spotlighting talent from in-front of and behind the lens from across the UK & US, in their annual initiative titled BAFTA Breakthrough, with alumni consisting of the likes of Tom Holland, Florence Pugh, Letitia Wright & Jessie Buckley.
This year we had the pleasure to speak to two of the breakthroughs, in British actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, as well as American actor Brandon Perea, who made his name with a role in Jordan Peele’s Nope. We spoke about their thoughts on being named a Breakthrough star, and what it means for them personally and for their respective careers. We also look back on projects been, such as Eastenders for Ayling-Ellis, and Nope for Perea, and look ahead to the future,...
This year we had the pleasure to speak to two of the breakthroughs, in British actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, as well as American actor Brandon Perea, who made his name with a role in Jordan Peele’s Nope. We spoke about their thoughts on being named a Breakthrough star, and what it means for them personally and for their respective careers. We also look back on projects been, such as Eastenders for Ayling-Ellis, and Nope for Perea, and look ahead to the future,...
- 11/11/2022
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
BAFTA has unveiled the 33 creatives across two continents who have been selected for the organization’s talent initiative BAFTA Breakthrough 2022.
Selected from the worlds of film, games and TV by an experienced jury, participants are set to receive professional development support including coaching, mentoring and networking opportunities with BAFTA’s vast range of members from the creative industries.
The 2022 UK jury was chaired by Ade Rawcliffe (group director of diversity and inclusion at ITV), and included Fiona Lamptey (director of features at Netflix), performer Marianne Jean-Baptiste, BBC Comedy commissioning editor Emma Lawson, casting director Lauren Evans, and Breakthrough alumnae Ruth Madeley and Charu Desodt. The U.S. jury was chaired by actor Nyasha Hatendi, and included the actors Jodi Balfour and Bianca Lawson, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky, TV executive producer and showrunner Ari Katcher, director, writer and producer Stephanie Laing and Netflix Studio exec Racheline Benveniste.
The Breakthroughs include creatives from...
Selected from the worlds of film, games and TV by an experienced jury, participants are set to receive professional development support including coaching, mentoring and networking opportunities with BAFTA’s vast range of members from the creative industries.
The 2022 UK jury was chaired by Ade Rawcliffe (group director of diversity and inclusion at ITV), and included Fiona Lamptey (director of features at Netflix), performer Marianne Jean-Baptiste, BBC Comedy commissioning editor Emma Lawson, casting director Lauren Evans, and Breakthrough alumnae Ruth Madeley and Charu Desodt. The U.S. jury was chaired by actor Nyasha Hatendi, and included the actors Jodi Balfour and Bianca Lawson, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky, TV executive producer and showrunner Ari Katcher, director, writer and producer Stephanie Laing and Netflix Studio exec Racheline Benveniste.
The Breakthroughs include creatives from...
- 11/10/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Chloe Fairweather, who directed documentary ‘Dying To Divorce’ has also been selected
UK actors Ambika Mod and Nell Barlow are among the 33 talents across film, TV and game selected for the 2022 edition of Bafta Breakthrough.
Mod was also chosen as a 2022 Screen Star of Tomorrow. She appeared alongside Ben Whishaw in the BBC series This Is Going To Hurt and is starring in the upcoming Netflix series One Day.
Barlow starred in the coming-of-age comedy Sweetheart which was written and directed by Marley Morrison who has also been selected as a Bafta Breakthrough. The film was nominated for five British...
UK actors Ambika Mod and Nell Barlow are among the 33 talents across film, TV and game selected for the 2022 edition of Bafta Breakthrough.
Mod was also chosen as a 2022 Screen Star of Tomorrow. She appeared alongside Ben Whishaw in the BBC series This Is Going To Hurt and is starring in the upcoming Netflix series One Day.
Barlow starred in the coming-of-age comedy Sweetheart which was written and directed by Marley Morrison who has also been selected as a Bafta Breakthrough. The film was nominated for five British...
- 11/10/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
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The British Academy has unveiled the latest crop of participants the U.S. and U.K. that will take part in its annual Breakthrough program, aimed at supporting emerging talent across film, TV and video games.
The 32-strong list of names — 20 from the U.K. and 12 from the U.S. — includes an impressive ensemble of creatives, such as Nope breakout Brandon Perea and Sex Education director Runyararo Mapfumo, who were selected by an international jury that included Oscar-winning actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Ramy co-creator Ari Katcher and Swan Song and Alex Rider actor Nyasha Hatendi.
Backed by Netflix for the last two years (the streamer’s head of U.K. features Fiona Lamptey is also on the jury), the BAFTA Breakthrough program first launched in the U.K. in 2013 before expanding to China in 2019 and the U.S. and India in 2020. It sees each...
The British Academy has unveiled the latest crop of participants the U.S. and U.K. that will take part in its annual Breakthrough program, aimed at supporting emerging talent across film, TV and video games.
The 32-strong list of names — 20 from the U.K. and 12 from the U.S. — includes an impressive ensemble of creatives, such as Nope breakout Brandon Perea and Sex Education director Runyararo Mapfumo, who were selected by an international jury that included Oscar-winning actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Ramy co-creator Ari Katcher and Swan Song and Alex Rider actor Nyasha Hatendi.
Backed by Netflix for the last two years (the streamer’s head of U.K. features Fiona Lamptey is also on the jury), the BAFTA Breakthrough program first launched in the U.K. in 2013 before expanding to China in 2019 and the U.S. and India in 2020. It sees each...
- 11/10/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The ceremony will be held in Glasgow on November 20
Terence Davies’ Benediction and Michael Caton-Jones’ Our Ladies have scooped up two nominations each in the Bafta Scotland awards.
Both Peter Capaldi and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Jack Lowden are nominated for their performances in Davies’ biopic about war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Benediction was previously nominated for two Bifas, and picked up the jury prize for best screenplay at San Sebastian in 2021 where it was screening in official competition.
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2018 Screen star Marli Siu received an acting nomination for Our Ladies; while the comedy-drama is...
Terence Davies’ Benediction and Michael Caton-Jones’ Our Ladies have scooped up two nominations each in the Bafta Scotland awards.
Both Peter Capaldi and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Jack Lowden are nominated for their performances in Davies’ biopic about war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Benediction was previously nominated for two Bifas, and picked up the jury prize for best screenplay at San Sebastian in 2021 where it was screening in official competition.
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2018 Screen star Marli Siu received an acting nomination for Our Ladies; while the comedy-drama is...
- 10/12/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
60 projects selected for the 30th edition of the industry meet.
IDFA Forum, the co-production and co-financing market of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, has selected 60 projects for its 2022 edition, including The Eternal Memory, a new feature from The Mole Agent director Maite Alberdi.
Produced by Alberdi’s Chilean company Micromundo Producciones and Pablo Larrain’s Chilean firm Fabula, the film is described by IDFA as “an intimate meditation on love and memory that observes a couple dealing with Alzheimer’s over a four-year period”.
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It is one of 22 projects in the market’s flagship Forum Pitch category,...
IDFA Forum, the co-production and co-financing market of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, has selected 60 projects for its 2022 edition, including The Eternal Memory, a new feature from The Mole Agent director Maite Alberdi.
Produced by Alberdi’s Chilean company Micromundo Producciones and Pablo Larrain’s Chilean firm Fabula, the film is described by IDFA as “an intimate meditation on love and memory that observes a couple dealing with Alzheimer’s over a four-year period”.
Scroll down for the full list of IDFA projects
It is one of 22 projects in the market’s flagship Forum Pitch category,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A Turkish biopic about 1980s pop singer Bergen, who grappled with a violent husband that hired someone to pour nitric acid on her face and later shot and killed her, is becoming a sleeper box office hit across West Asia.
The potent female empowerment film, titled “Bergen,” follows the singer’s meteoric rise from cello player to becoming Turkey’s “Queen of Arabesque,” all while struggling with a partner hellbent on sabotaging her career. The pic is helmed by Turkish directorial duo Caner Alper and Mehmet Binay, who are known for works driven by civil liberties and gender issues such as the 2015 drama “Drawers,” about a teenage girl’s sexuality.
Upon grossing a substantial 10 million-plus intake at Turkish cinemas, “Bergen” is now scoring brisk box office returns across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Lebanon and Oman. The pic has drawn more than 300,000 admissions and made more than 4.8 million...
The potent female empowerment film, titled “Bergen,” follows the singer’s meteoric rise from cello player to becoming Turkey’s “Queen of Arabesque,” all while struggling with a partner hellbent on sabotaging her career. The pic is helmed by Turkish directorial duo Caner Alper and Mehmet Binay, who are known for works driven by civil liberties and gender issues such as the 2015 drama “Drawers,” about a teenage girl’s sexuality.
Upon grossing a substantial 10 million-plus intake at Turkish cinemas, “Bergen” is now scoring brisk box office returns across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Lebanon and Oman. The pic has drawn more than 300,000 admissions and made more than 4.8 million...
- 7/22/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Also opening: Disney’s ‘Encanto’, ‘Bad Luck Banging’.
Ridley Scott’s House Of Gucci and Reggie Yates’ Pirates head the openers at the UK-Ireland box office, in another bumper week of 17 theatrical debuts.
House Of Gucci is Scott’s second film to arrive in cinemas in six weeks, after medieval epic The Last Duel in mid-October.
Like that title, House Of Gucci tells a true story and boasts a stellar cast, led by Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, an ambitious woman who marries fashion heir Maurizio Gucci, played by Adam Driver. She pushes him to take over the family business,...
Ridley Scott’s House Of Gucci and Reggie Yates’ Pirates head the openers at the UK-Ireland box office, in another bumper week of 17 theatrical debuts.
House Of Gucci is Scott’s second film to arrive in cinemas in six weeks, after medieval epic The Last Duel in mid-October.
Like that title, House Of Gucci tells a true story and boasts a stellar cast, led by Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, an ambitious woman who marries fashion heir Maurizio Gucci, played by Adam Driver. She pushes him to take over the family business,...
- 11/26/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Interweaving traumatic personal stories with those of systematic state discrimination, the film has to look hard for signs of progress
A cloak of darkness hangs over the opening of this film, directed by Chloe Fairweather, as a young woman takes the camera crew to the place where her ex-husband shot at her in a fit of rage. Such painful anecdotes recur throughout this stirring documentary which examines the correlation between gender-based violence in Turkey and the country’s political turbulences.
Following the court cases handled by the We Will Stop Femicide Platform, a Turkish feminist advocacy group, the film closely captures how women are being systematically failed at every institutional level. Married off according to traditional custom at the age of 14, Arzu was shot multiple times by her husband after asking for a divorce, leaving her paralysed. In another case, Kubra, a former Bloomberg news presenter, was hit repeatedly on the head by her husband,...
A cloak of darkness hangs over the opening of this film, directed by Chloe Fairweather, as a young woman takes the camera crew to the place where her ex-husband shot at her in a fit of rage. Such painful anecdotes recur throughout this stirring documentary which examines the correlation between gender-based violence in Turkey and the country’s political turbulences.
Following the court cases handled by the We Will Stop Femicide Platform, a Turkish feminist advocacy group, the film closely captures how women are being systematically failed at every institutional level. Married off according to traditional custom at the age of 14, Arzu was shot multiple times by her husband after asking for a divorce, leaving her paralysed. In another case, Kubra, a former Bloomberg news presenter, was hit repeatedly on the head by her husband,...
- 11/22/2021
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
The Turkish-language film is Fairweather’s feature debut.
Chloe Fairweather’s Turkish-language documentary Dying To Divorce has been selected as the UK’s entry to the international Oscar feature race.
It is Fairweather’s feature debut, with previous credits including Channel 4 docuseries 24 Hours In Police Custody. She has also produced the film alongside Sinead Kirwan.
Dying To Divorce was filmed over five years. It takes a deep dive into Turkey’s gender-based violence crisis – more than one in three Turkish women have experienced domestic abuse – and the political events that have damaged democratic freedoms across the country.
The...
Chloe Fairweather’s Turkish-language documentary Dying To Divorce has been selected as the UK’s entry to the international Oscar feature race.
It is Fairweather’s feature debut, with previous credits including Channel 4 docuseries 24 Hours In Police Custody. She has also produced the film alongside Sinead Kirwan.
Dying To Divorce was filmed over five years. It takes a deep dive into Turkey’s gender-based violence crisis – more than one in three Turkish women have experienced domestic abuse – and the political events that have damaged democratic freedoms across the country.
The...
- 11/11/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2022 Academy Awards
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
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The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
- 11/11/2021
- by Ben Dalton¬Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
19 films on international, 14 on documentary list.
Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner Titane and Andrea Arnold’s Cow have made the longlists for best international independent film and best documentary respectively at the 2021 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa).
Titane is one of 19 titles on the international list, alongside fellow Cannes 2021 titles A Chiara, Compartment No. 6, Drive My Car, Great Freedom, Paris, 13th District and Red Rocket.
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Six of the 19 international titles hail from North America, with 12 from Europe and one from Japan. Nine of the 19 directors are women.
Alongside Cow on...
Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner Titane and Andrea Arnold’s Cow have made the longlists for best international independent film and best documentary respectively at the 2021 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa).
Titane is one of 19 titles on the international list, alongside fellow Cannes 2021 titles A Chiara, Compartment No. 6, Drive My Car, Great Freedom, Paris, 13th District and Red Rocket.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
Six of the 19 international titles hail from North America, with 12 from Europe and one from Japan. Nine of the 19 directors are women.
Alongside Cow on...
- 10/26/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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