Two Oscars-nominated films in the 15th OFF official program

"Everything, Everywhere, All at one," a twisted sci-fi adventure, leads the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards, which will take place on March 13. In second place are Netflix's "All Quite on Western Front," a World War I epic, and "The Banshees of Inisherin," a darkly comic look at friendship set against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War, both of which scored result of nine nominations.

 

“Triangle of Sadness,” one of the year's most-watched and most divisive films, had a strong showing Tuesday morning, earning nominations for screenplay and direction for Ruben Östlund, the Swedish director behind this unique satire. For the director award, Ruben will "fight" against Spielberg, Todd Field ("Tár"), Martin McDonagh ("The Banshees of Inisherin") and the directorial duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert ("Everything everywhere and at once"). It is a category that is completely dominated by men. The last two best director winners, Jane Campion ("The Power of the Dog") and Chloe Zhao ("Nomadland"), were women, and there was some hope that Sarah Polley of "Women Talking" could win the award for best director.

 

We pay special attention to the Best Foreign Film category, which includes two titles that will be shown at this year's 15th Telemach Youth Film Festival in Sarajevo.

 

In the race for the award in this category are "All Quiet on the Western Front" (Germany), "Argentina, 1985" (Argentina), "Close" (Belgium), "EO" (Poland) and the film "The Quiet Girl" ( Ireland)

 

The films "EO" and "Close", from this category, were confirmed as the first two titles in the category OFF Generation Features - competitive feature films, 15th Telemach Youth Film Festival Sarajevo.

 

"EO" is a 2022 on the road drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. Inspired by Robert Bresson's 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar, it follows the life of a donkey born in a Polish circus. The film premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022, where it won the Jury Prize, tied with Eight Mountains.

 

"Close" is a 2022 coming-of-age drama film directed by Lukas Dhont and written by Dhont and Angel Tijssens, who reunited to write the screenplay after their first feature The Girl (2018). The film stars Eden Dambrine, Gustav de Waele, Emilie Dequenne and Léa Drucker. "Close" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 26, 2022 to critical acclaim and won the Grand Prix. The film was released by Diaphana Distribution in France on 1 November 2022 and by Lumière in the Benelux countries on 2 November last year.

 

This year's 15th Telemach Youth Film Festival Sarajevo will take place from 18-22. July at five festival locations with the largest number of films and guests so far, which will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the largest and most important youth and short film festival in Southeastern Europe.

 

See the nominations in all categories on the official Oscar website.