The Slovak nomination for the Best International Feature Film Award of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), also known as the Oscar, is 107 Mothers by Peter Kerekes.
The submission for the Oscars International Feature Film Category is based on the voting of the members of the Slovak Film and Television Academy. SFTA members have chosen Kerekes‘ feature from the following films which met the AMPAS conditions:
107 Mothers (d. Peter Kerekes)
At Full Throttle (d. Miro Remo)
How I Became a Partisan (d. Vera Lacková)
The Man with Hare Ears (d. Martin Šulík)
On Your Marks! (d. Mária Pinčíková)
White on White (d. Viera Čákanyová)
Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, and women with children. If not for the color of the uniform, it would sometimes be hard to tell who is who.
The film premiered at the Venice IFF and was awarded for the best screenplay within the Orizzonti section.
More information:
http://www.sfta.sk/
http://www.oscars.org/
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