Montenegro picks “The Black Pin” as foreign Oscars submissionSeptember 30, 2016 - 15:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Montenegro's ministry of culture has selected Igla ispod praga (The Black Pin) by first-time feature director Ivan Marinovic as the country's submission in the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. The comedy was co-produced by Montenegro's Adriatic Western and Serbia's EED Productions and premiered in the competition of the Sarajevo International Film Festival last month. The Black Pin centers on Peter, an orthodox priest who returns to his idyllic village in Montenegro to take care of his sick mother. Soon enough, however, he runs afoul of other villagers when he declines to join them in selling their land to a foreign investor and has to deal with superstition, ignorance and corruption. The Black Pin is Montenegro's fourth Oscar submission since the country became independent in 2006. None of the three previous entries has been shortlisted in the best foreign-language film category. 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 | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |