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98th ACADEMY AWARDS® QUALIFYING FESTIVAL LIST

November 23, 2024 di The Film Verdict

Looking ahead to the 2026 Oscars,the Academy has released the qualifying Film Festivals for Shorts and Documentary film. Films that win a qualifying festival award between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025, may be eligible to submit for 98th Academy Awards consideration. ACADEMIA DELAS ARTES YLAS CIENCIAS CINEMATOGRÁFICAS DEESPAÑA – GOYA AWARDS (Spain) Best...

Navalny

March 2, 2023 di Stephen Dalton

Director Daniel Roher’s gripping documentary about the poison plot against Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny gains extra urgency in the light of Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

Zero Position

May 6, 2022 di Deborah Young

Toronto photographer Louie Palu’s unstructured yet immersive trip into the Donbas war zones in 2016 makes a skin-crawling intro to the current invasion of Ukraine.

Rhino

March 7, 2022 di Deborah Young

ORIGINALLY REVIEWED SEPT. 13, 2021 Ukrainian activist Oleh Sentsov directs a hard-boiled gangster tale set in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, whose over-the-top violence is starkly undermotivated.

A House Made of Splinters

January 24, 2022 di Jordan Mintzer

A powerful documentary chronicle of children left abandoned by the conflict in Ukraine won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

Klondike

January 21, 2022 di Jay Weissberg

Notwithstanding truly impressive visuals by D.P. Sviatoslav Bulakovskyi, “Klondike” underwhelms with its unilluminating look at the Donbas region conflict in Ukraine, seen through a reductionist gendered lens where women nurture and men achieve nothing but destruction.

Reflection

September 6, 2021 di Deborah Young

ORIGINALLY REVIEWED SEPT. 7, 2021 Ukrainian filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych follows up his Venice Horizons-winning ‘Atlantis’ with ‘Reflection’ (‘Vidblysk’), a perturbing true horror tale of his country’s war with Russia.