After screenings in Toronto and the New York Film Festival, Saint Omer, France's nominee for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars 2023, continues its North American tour with a presentation on November 6 in Los Angeles at the AFI FEST.
Alice Diop's film has just received a prestigious nomination at the Gotham Awards, the New York organization that launches the awards season, and is exceptionally well known among American journalists, garnering 100% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Alice Diop is indeed a director already well identified in the USA: her work as a documentary filmmaker was the subject of a retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center in April 2022 as part of Art of the Real, We was shown at the prestigious MOMA before circulating in the United States throughout the summer of 2022, and she recently spent several months in the U.S. as part of the Villa Albertine's 10 in America project.
After having accompanied the film in New York for screenings and a discussion with Frederick Wiseman, Diop will travel to Los Angeles from November 5 to 8 to meet journalists and professionals, and interact with spectators.
The voting for the Oscar shortlist will take place from December 12 to 15. The list of the 15 pre-selected international films will be announced on December 21
The other French productions or coproductions selected at the AFI FEST
- One Fine Morning by Mia Hansen-Løve
- Smoking Causes Coughing by Quentin Dupieux
- The Eight Mountains by Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
- Pacifiction by Albert Serra
- Godland by Hlynur Pálmason
- The Five Devils by Léa Mysius
- Rewind & Play by Alain Gomis
- Mariupolis 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius
- De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Human Flowers of Flesh by Helena Wittmann
- Close by Lukas Dhont
- Humans Are Dumber When Crammed Up Together by Laurène Fernandez (short film)
- Lucienne in a World Without Solitude by Geordy Couturiau (short film)
