two films shot in the Pas-de-Calais pre-selected for the Oscar for international feature film
“The Worst”, shot in Boulogne-sur-Mer and “Saint-Omer”, inspired by a news item that marked Pas-de-Calais, are both pre-selected to represent France at the 2022 Oscars in the category “international feature film”.
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Will Hauts-de-France represent the whole of France at the most famous American film festival? Two films shot in the region are currently pre-selected to compete in the “Oscar for international feature film” category.
In the competition, we find the film “The worst” by Lise Akoka and Romane Guerret. Shot in Boulogne-sur-Mer, the feature film which mixes fiction and reality tells the story of four teenagers from the Picasso city who, after a wild casting, start shooting a film. The recipe of the two directors had already worked with their first film, integrated on the same model but shot in Valenciennes. “The worst” has already won the selection prize on May 27 In some perspective at the Cannes Film Festival.
Second nugget in the running, the feature film “Saint-Omer”, directed by Alice Diop, which has just won two prizes at another prestigious festival, the Venice Film Festival. He returns to a true story, that of Fabienne Kabou, who in 2013 had abandoned her 15-month-old daughter on the beach. fragile psychological state of the child’s mother had been at the center of the trial in 2016. The director confides that she relied on “a news item of sordid appearance to go and question something of a lot broader, which is the relationship that all women and all men have with maternity“.
The official French champion for the 2022 Oscars will be chosen on September 23.