“Waterdrop”
Director: Robert Budin
Country: Albania
Budina’s feature debut “Agon” was Albania’s 2013 submission. His fourth feature, “Waterdrop,” premiered internationally at Warsaw. It tells the story of a city hall manager, who faces inner turmoil when her teenage son is involved in a rape scandal.
“Algiers”
Director: Chakib Taleb-Bendiab
Country: Algeria
A thriller in which a psychiatrist and a police inspector investigate a young girl’s disappearance in the country’s capital. Taleb-Bendiab’s film won top honors at the Rhode Island Film Festival.
“Kill the Jockey”
Director: Luis Ortega
Country: Argentina
Ortega’s second Argentine Oscar submission — after 2018’s “El Angel” — is an offbeat deadpan comedy following a dissolute jockey on a transformative journey of self-discovery. It premiered
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