With last year’s surprise nominee “The Man Who Sold His Skin” hailing from Tunisia, Oscar handicappers should be sure to give West Asia and North Africa titles close scrutiny this time around. Amon…
”, a wry satire helmed by Eran Kolirin, about a Palestinian village put under military lockdown by the Israeli army; and Lebanon’s “Costa Brava, Lebanon,” a darkly comic commentary on the realities of modern-day Lebanon from feature debutant Mounia Akl.
Akl’s multi-layered drama “Costa Brava, Lebanon” centers on a family that fled the pollution and social unrest of Beirut only to find their utopian off-the-grid existence threatened by a toxic waste dump on their doorstep. The film boasts an audience award from the London Film Festival and stars Oscar-nominee Nadine Labaki.
Algeria’s submission, the sweeping patriotic melodrama “Heliopolis” from helmer Djaffar Gacem, neatly uses the alliances of a fictional Muslim family to explicate events leading up to the brutal killings of indigenous Algerian civilians and the summary execution of native political leaders by French settler militias and soldiers in 1945.
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