Typecast nabs Switzerland’s Oscar entry “Iraqi Odyssey” October 27, 2015 - 19:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Typecast Films has acquired U.S. rights to the documentary “Iraqi Odyssey”, Switzerland’s entry for the Academy Awards in the foreign language film category, according to Variety. The movie will be released in New York and Los Angeles on Nov. 27 before expanding nationwide in 2016. Typecast Films will release the English-language version of the film in theaters, while the version that has qualified as the Swiss Oscar entry is in German. “Iraqi Odyssey” tells the story of director Samir’s globalized middle-class Iraqi family, who live in New Zealand, Russia, France, the UK and Buffalo, N.Y. Samir himself was born in Baghdad, but grew up in Switzerland. “Iraqi Odyssey,” which is a co-production between Switzerland, Germany and UAE, received its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014. It won the best Asian film award and the NETPAC award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, and the Panorama audience award at the Berlin 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 Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan  A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia.U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel.Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |
