Live Poll: Oscars 2023 — Best International Feature Film

@Tsarstepan​ True.

@Tsarstepan​ I was likewise impressed with Decision to Leave. It is odd it didn't get any noms, but I can't go so far to call them snubs. I can't say it deserved them here either, since there were titles that I would have place before it in this category. It ties @ #8 with Holy Spider (2022) out of the fifteen shortlist titles in this category on IMDb user ratings. FYI, I was equally impressed with Holy Spider and it would have been a toss-up with Decision To Leave for me even for the 8th spot.

@cinephile​ Doesn't look like it had a qualifying run. Just four of US film festival screenings. It would need (I believe) a week theatrical run in LA and/or NYC.

@Tsarstepan​ 

It must be a detriment of being a true independent film. The film was practically entirely made by Jacquelyn Mills (directing, cinematography, editing, sound recording, music). She went on Sable Island (Nova Scotia) alone with a limited stock of 16mm film, and she filmed the daily life of the naturalist Zoe Lucas. It is, in my opinion, revolutionary (and also a proof that you don't need 1000 people, and 500 millions to make a great film), but it also a film that must be hard to sell to distributors. I don't think it made a profit on its budget of 186 000 USD dollars. In my province, it screened in only one theater, and that is how I watched it.

P.S. The film's distributing rights for USA were bought by The Cinema Guild. So, it should be screened in the USA from tomorrow (but probably only in arthouse theaters).

@leavey_2​ Will be watching Close tomorrow afternoon.