Unifrance congratulates Jacques Audiard (Page 114) and his co-producer Pascal Caucheteux (Why Not Productions), whose Emilia Pérez will represent France in the category for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film 2025, following the decision of the selection committee convened by the CNC on 18 September.
Emilia Pérez is the epic, musical tale of a Mexican drug trafficker who, with the help of a lawyer, decides to become the woman he's always dreamed of being and embarks on the long road to redemption. Director Jacques Audiard's tenth feature won the Jury Prize at the recent Cannes Film Festival, where the cast Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Zoé Saldaña won a quadruple Best Performance by an Actress award. Audiard, a regular in the Cannes Competition, won the Palme d'Or in 2015 with Dheepan.
Sold internationally by The Veterans, Emilia Pérez made its North American premiere in early September at the Telluride International Film Festival, in the presence of the director and his four leading actresses. It was subsequently presented at TIFF.
French moviegoers discovered Emilia Pérez at the end of August (it then went on to screen in Belgium and Switzerland). Netflix will release the film theatrically in the USA and UK in early November. The film will also have a theatrical career in several other countries: Germany, Spain, Greece, Mexico, Italy, and Colombia.
Unifrance also congratulates director Mati Diop and producers Ève Robin and Judith Lou Lévy (Les Films du Bal), whose Dahomey will represent Senegal; Rithy Panh and producer Catherine Dussart (Catherine Dussart Production (CDP)) whose Meeting with Pol Pot will represent Cambodia; and Nabil Ayouch, director and producer (Les Films du Nouveau Monde) whose Everybody Loves Touda will represent Morocco. These three films are majority-French productions. Other minority-French co-productions were also among the films selected for this Oscar category, among which The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof, representing Germany.
All submissions for the Best International Feature Film Oscar have not yet been announced.
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