A look at submissions to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film: Algeria
As we get ever closer to time that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announce the nominees for the Oscar of Best Foreign Language Film. It is time to take a look at all the films that are competing for a spot at this prestigious award.
Algerian submission for the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film is “Until the End of Time” drama film directed by Yasmine Chouikh, A film director who studied the humanities and graduated in Psychology and Educational sciences. As an actress, she performed in “La Citadelle” (1987) by Mohamed Chouikh, in a television film by Djamel Bendedouch in 1990, and in “Hamlet of Women” (2004) by Mohamed Chouikh. She writes for the culture pages of the daily newspaper, L’Authentique, and has been presenting a cinematographic television program on the National Algerian broadcaster since 2005. She has written several short film scripts and directed two films: “The Door” and “The Djinn”. She is the artistic director of the International Taghit Short Film Festival (Algeria) and has been in charge of short films at the International Arab Film Festival of Oran.
This film tells the tale of Ali the old gravedigger who meets the 60-year-old Johar, who is visiting her sister's grave for the first time after losing her husband. Johar wants her final resting place to be next to her sister, so she decides to organize her own funeral and asks Ali to help her. But preparations for the final journey go awry when Ali and Johar unexpectedly start to realize they have feelings for each other
This film has participated in the 15th Dubai International Film Festival.
While there are not a lot of information that can be found about this film, it seems that it has made a strong impression to be chosen as the Algerian submission to Oscar, one has to wait and see if it will have the same results with the Academy’s committee.
With so many countries vying to win this admirable award, it is hard to keep up on the films that were submitted by each country. On the next instalments of this report we will take a look at the other submissions for this award.
