Five movies that tackle the cruelties of existence with humanity and humor are finalists for the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
London: Five movies that tackle the cruelties of existence with humanity and humor are finalists for the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
The finalists announced Thursday include director Andrey Zvyagintsev's "Leviathan," a tragic parable of small-town Russian corruption; Pawel Pawlikowski's "Ida," in which an aspiring Polish nun confronts dark truths about her family and her country; and "Tangerines," an Estonian-Georgian film by Zaza Urushadze set in post-Soviet Georgia of the early 1990s.
The other contenders are Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako's "Timbuktu," a powerful film about the takeover of northern Mali by Islamic militants, and Argentine filmmaker Damian Szifron's explosive comic romp "Wild Tales."
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