Slovakia noms "Koza" for foreign OscarSeptember 24, 2015 - 15:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Slovak Film and Television Academy has announced Koza by Ivan Ostrochovsky as the country's entry in the best foreign-language film Oscar race, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. Koza centers on Peter "Koza" Balaz, a retired former Olympic boxer, who returns to the ring to earn money and persuade his partner not to get an abortion. Koza, Ostrochovsky's debut feature film, had its world premiere at the Berlin film festival this February. It went on to take part in several more international festivals, including goEast, where it collected the best director and FIPRESCI awards, the Vilnius film festival, where it was celebrated as the best film, the Hong Kong film festival, Tarkovsky film festival Zerkalo and Transilvania film festival. The film was produced by Slovakia's Sentimentalfilm, Rozhlas a televizia Slovenska and Punkchart films in collaboration with the Czech Republic's Endorfilm and Ceska televise. Koza was also selected for the EFA Awards. Since Slovakia and the Czech Republic parted ways in a move that took effect at the start of 1993, no Slovak movie has been shortlisted in the best foreign-language film category. Photo: Berlin International Film Festival Top stories 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”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |