Slovakia noms "Koza" for foreign Oscar September 24, 2015 - 15:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Slovak Film and Television Academy has announced Koza by Ivan Ostrochovsky as the country's entry in the best foreign-language film Oscar race, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. Koza centers on Peter "Koza" Balaz, a retired former Olympic boxer, who returns to the ring to earn money and persuade his partner not to get an abortion. Koza, Ostrochovsky's debut feature film, had its world premiere at the Berlin film festival this February. It went on to take part in several more international festivals, including goEast, where it collected the best director and FIPRESCI awards, the Vilnius film festival, where it was celebrated as the best film, the Hong Kong film festival, Tarkovsky film festival Zerkalo and Transilvania film festival. The film was produced by Slovakia's Sentimentalfilm, Rozhlas a televizia Slovenska and Punkchart films in collaboration with the Czech Republic's Endorfilm and Ceska televise. Koza was also selected for the EFA Awards. Since Slovakia and the Czech Republic parted ways in a move that took effect at the start of 1993, no Slovak movie has been shortlisted in the best foreign-language film category. Photo: Berlin International Film Festival   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Armenian cemetery in Fresno hit by arsons six times since January  Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance.Iran vows to “decisively” defend sovereignty, national interests The Iranian embassy in Armenia has defended its “defensive and proportional action in in occupied Palestine.”Armenian shooter Elmira Karapetyan Armenian shooter Elmira Karapetyan won gold at the ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Rio de Janiero.Britain said to have entered talks to deport migrants to Armenia Britain is said to have entered talks to replicate the Rwanda migrant deportation scheme with Armenia. |
