Alice Diop’s first narrative characteristic is eyeing an Oscar nomination. Deadline stories that France has submitted “Saint Omer,” this yr’s winner of Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion Grand Jury prize and Luigi De Laurentis First Film Award, as its entry in one of the best worldwide movie class on the 2023 Academy Awards. The drama simply made its North American premiere on the Toronto International Film Festival.
Penned by Diop, Amrita David, and Marie NDiaye, “Saint Omer” is loosely based mostly on actual occasions and tells the story of a novelist (Kayije Kagame) who attends the trial of a Senegalese lady (Guslagie Malanga) accused of infanticide.
Notably, 4 titles on France’s shortlist for the dignity have been directed or co-directed by ladies. Joining “Saint Omer” have been Alice Winocour’s “Paris Memories,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s “One Fine Morning,” and Lise Asoka and Roman Gueret’s “The Worst Ones.”
Other titles within the operating for the International Oscar embrace Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” and Carla Simon’s “Alcarràs.” The former is representing Austria and the latter Spain.
Oscar nominations shall be introduced February 8 and the ceremony is slated to happen March 27.
Besides “Saint Omer,” Diop is greatest identified for “We” (“Nous”), a 2021 documentary shining a light-weight on folks and communities related by the RER B commuter practice in Paris.
“Saint Omer” will make its U.S. premiere at NYFF October 3.
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