Scrolling down the list of fifteen titles competing for the Best International Film category at the 2024 Oscars, we find “Io capitano,” Matteo Garrone’s film that could represent Italy at the awards ceremony scheduled for March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles. There is still an intermediate stage: next January 23, when the five titles that will play for the statuette will be announced.
The Italian film, in fact, will have to overcome competition from the other nominations on the short list, which come from more than 50 countries. These include J. A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow,” which chronicles a rugby team’s survival of a plane crash in the Andes, and Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days “in co-production with Japan.
The other films on the list are: Amerikatsi (Armenia), The Monk and the Gun (Bhutan), The Promised Land (Denmark), Fallen Leaves (Finland), The Taste of Things (France), The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany), Godland (Iceland), Totem (Mexico), The Mother of All Lies (Morocco), Four Daughters (Tunisia), 20 Days in Mariupol (Ukraine), and The Zone of Interest (Britain).
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