Brazil has picked Walter Salles’ new feature, I’m Still Here to represent the country at next year’s Oscar race for Best International Feature, 26 years after Salles scooped an Oscar nom in the same category for his 1998 international breakthrough,

"Vermiglio," the period drama written and directed by Maura Delpero, won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice film festival

Iran has selected In the Arms of the Tree as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards. Iran’s Farabi Cinema Foundation made the announcement this morning. IRNA, the country’s English-language news service, said the pick was made after “a 10-day review process.”

The coming-of-age story from directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez follows a boy orphaned in the country's drug violence.

The Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas has selected Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner "Sujo" as its entry for the 2025 International Feature Oscar race.

Brazil has selected Walter Salles’ well-received comeback feature I'm Still Here to represent it in the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. The picture stars Fernanda Torres as the real-life figure of Eunice Paiva,

The submissions for the 97th Oscars in the best international feature category are coming thick and fast as countries rush to get in their entries before the Nov. 14 deadline. Kazakhstan is the latest to pick a national contender, selecting Askhat Kuchinchirekov’s coming-of-age tale Bauryna Salu.