The Film Academy selects Carla Simón’s Catalan film to represent Spain at the 95th Academy Awards in the Best International Film category
‘Alcarrás’ will represent Spain at the 95th Oscars in the Best International Film category, previously known as Best Foreign Language Film. Spoken in Catalan, Carla Simón’s second feature has beaten ‘Cinco lobitos’ by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa and ‘As bestas’ by Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Now all that remains is the Hollywood Academy to choose the Spanish film from all the films presented by the different countries and finally finish at the Oscars gala, which will take place on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
Carla Simón won a historic Golden Bear in Berlin with ‘Alcarràs’, the first top prize of an international festival won by a Spanish director, with the melancholic chronicle of an agrarian way of life that is about to disappear. A careful look at details and a group of non-professional actors work the wonder. The director of ‘Summer 1993’ immerses us in a universe that she knows well thanks to her family, an area of peach trees in Lleida that until now lived on agriculture, but in which the trees give way to solar panels.
The film hit theaters on April 29, adding new copies week after week until it became the Spanish film with the most viewers of the year. Only the July premiere of Santiago Segura’s ‘Padre no hay más que uno 3’ took home the title of highest-grossing Spanish film. ‘Alcarràs’ continues in theaters, where it has more than 365,000 viewers, and since August 19 it is available on the platforms iTunes, Google Play, Movistar Plus, Vodafone, Filmin, Rakuten TV, Orange and Prime Video. The film has been selected to participate in more than 37 festivals around the world and will soon be screened at the New York Film Festival.
Source: La Verdad
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