Full List: Check Out Nairobi Half Life’s Competition on the Way to the Oscars
The deadline for Oscar submissions is tomorrow and Kenya for only the second time in history has an entrant at the Oscars.
By the end of the month, The Academy will have vetted the films and weeded out the ones that do not meet the strict requirements. Between now and the end of the year, dozens of films will be eliminated from the line-up.
A list of nine will be announced on January 3rd and the final five nominees named on the 10th of January together with the rest of the films in other categories.
There are only two other submissions from Africa: Algeria’s Zabana by Saïd Ould Khelifa and South Africa’s Little One by Darrell Roodt. Unlike Tosh Gitonga who Nairobi Half Life is only his first feature film, Roodt has directed about two dozen films including Sarafina, Cry, The Beloved Country and Oscar nominee in the same category, Yesterday.
Check out the competition Nairobi Half Life will have to get through: the full list of 63 other submissions for the 85th edition of the Academy Awards.
Afghanistan – The Patience Stone (Atiq Rahimi)
Albania – Pharmakon (Joni Shanaj)
Argentina – Clandestine Childhood (Benjamín Ávila)
Armenia – If Only Everyone (Natalya Belyauskene)
Australia – Lore (Cate Shortland)
Austria – Amour (Michael Haneke)
Azerbaijan – Buta (Ilgar Najaf)
Bangladesh – Ghetuptra Kamola (Humayun Ahmed)
Belgium – Our Children (Joachim Lafosse)
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Children of Sarajevo (Aida Begić)
Brazil – The Clown (Selton Mello)
Bulgaria – Sneakers (Valeri Yordanov)
Cambodia – Lost Loves (Chhay Bora)
Canada – War Witch (Kim Nguyen)
Chile – No (Pablo Larrain)
Colombia – El Cartel de los Sapos (Carlos Moreno)
Croatia – Cannibal Vegetarian (Branko Schmidt)
Czech Republic – In The Shadows (David Ondricek)
Denmark – A Royal Affair (Nikolaj Arcel)
Dominican Republic – Check Mate (José María Cabral)
Estonia – Mushrooming, (Toomas Hussar)
Finland – Purge (Antti Jokinen)
France – The Intouchables (Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache)
Georgia – Keep Smiling (Rusudan Chkonia)
Germany – Barbara (Christian Petzold)
Greece – Unfair World (Filippos Tsitos)
Hong Kong – Life Without Principle (Johnnie To)
Hungary – Just The Wind (Benedek Fliegauf)
Iceland – The Deep (Baltasar Kormákur)
India – Barfi! (Anurag Basu)
Indonesia – Tiny Dancer (Ifa Isfansyah)
Israel – Fill The Void (Rama Burshtein)
Italy – Caesar Must Die (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
Japan – Our Homeland (Yong-hi Yang)
Kazakhstan – Myn Bala (Akan Satayev)
Latvia – Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg (Yevgeni Pashkevich)
Macedonia -The Third Half (Darko Mitrevski)
Mexico – After Lucia (Michel Franco)
Morocco – Death For Sale (Faouzi Bensaïdi)
Netherlands – Kauwboy (Boudewijn Koole)
Norway – Kon-Tiki (Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg)
Palestinian Territories – When I Saw You (Annemarie Jacir)
Peru – The Bad Intentions (Rosario Garcia-Montero)
Phillippines – Bwakaw (Jun Lana)
Poland – 80 Million (Waldemar Krzystek)
Portugal – Blood of My Blood (João Canijo)
Romania – Beyond The Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
Russia – White Tiger (Karen Shakhnazarov)
Serbia – When Day Breaks (Goran Paskaljević)
Slovakia – Made in Ash (Iveta Grófová)
Slovenia – A Trip (Nejc Gazvoda)
South Korea – Pieta (Kim Ki-duk)
Spain – Blancanieves (Pablo Berger)
Sweden – The Hypnotist (Lasse Hallstrom)
Switzerland – Sister (Ursala Meier)
Taiwan – Touch of the Light (Chang Rong-ji)
Thailand – Headshot (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Turkey – Where The Fire Burns (İsmail Güneş)
Urkraine – Firecrosser (Mykhailo Illienko)
Uruguay – The Delay (Rodrigo Plá)
Venezuela – Rock, Paper, Scissors (Hernán Jabes)
Vietnam – The Scent of Burning Glass (Nguyễn Hữu Mười)
