Denmark picks "A War" drama as foreign Oscar submissionSeptember 24, 2015 - 14:18 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Denmark has picked A War, the latest drama from fast-rising director Tobias Lindholm (A Hijacking, R), to be its submission for the Oscar for best foreign-language film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lindholm's frequent collaborator, Borgen's Pilou Asbaek stars as a Danish army commander whose split-second decision on the battlefield has wide-reaching consequences on his and his family's lives back home. A War beat out Anders Thomas Jensen's dramedy Men & Chicken and Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary The Look of Silence, which had also made Denmark's Oscar contender shortlist. In addition to his films as a director, Lindholm co-wrote the screenplay to Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt, which was nominated for the Oscar for best foreign-language film last year. In recent years, Denmark has been one of the most successful countries at the Oscars, with three nominations and one win — for Susanne Bier's In a Better World in 2011 — in the past five years. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Police try to impede Armenian Church head’s access to war memorial Police tried to stop the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, from visiting a war memorial. Greece says ready to help as Armenia fights flooding consequences Greece is ready to assist Armenia in combatting the consequences of deadly floods in the country’s north. “He will leave”: Protest leader no longer demands meeting with Pashinyan Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan no longer demands a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Lemkin Institute petition seeks release of Armenians in Azerbaijan The Lemkin Institute is deeply concerned about the continued illegal detention of political prisoners from Karabakh in Azerbaijan. |