Oscars: How The International Film Landscape Is Shaping Up In A Difficult Year Deadline 1/14/2021
In what has been the strangest year on recent record for myriad reasons, the International Feature Film Oscar race is not immune to the impact of Covid. Along with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tweaking submission deadlines, many films vying for recognition in the International Feature category have experienced a lack of physical festival exposure and the customary resultant buzz, as so many events were canceled or moved online throughout the past nine months. In several cases, films selected by their respective countries actually debuted way back in the 2019 festival season.
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Though its title sound like it could be the name of a heavy-metal band’s lead singer, “Sami Blood” is a Swedish-Norwegian-Danish co-production that concerns the Sami people, an indigenous population that raises reindeer in Scandinavia’s far north and, in the film’s telling, were oppressed and disdained by other Swedes in the 1930s, when most of the story is set.
But the historical and anthropological interest of entering into a little-known culture is only half the film’s appeal. The other half, centered on a precocious Sami girl who wants to leave her rural roots behind, is a lyrical coming-of-age tale of a sort that Scandinavian filmmakers have long had both a fondness and an aptitude for.
PASAY CITY, Dec. 10 With almost eight months of quarantine, the pandemic must have compelled us to introspectively make this perennial question: How is it to be human? What are the rights that we need to fight for?
To help us re-evaluate and reflect on these questions, the CCP Arthouse Cinema presents “To Be Human” special screenings on Human Rights, in celebration of the International Human Rights Week. The program features selected films from the European Union, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Cinemalaya, Gawad Alternatibo and from Filipino filmmakers, ongoing until December 13, 3pm, via the CCP Vimeo Channel. This initiative was made possible through a partnership with the European Union Delegation to the Philippines, and in cooperation with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, and the Commission on Human Rights.