Two more countries have joined the already long list of films for the preselection of the Oscar a Best Foreign Language Film.
Is India y Bangladesh, two countries that have never been made with the statuette in this category.
India will try her luck with «The Good Road"To Gian Correa, a film that tells three cross stories, the story of a trucker who decides to simulate his own death in an accident to collect insurance and thus help his loved ones financially, that of a couple who has lost their son in a careless way and the of an eleven-year-old boy looking for his grandmother's house who lives at the end of a road.
He has never won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, previously known as the best foreign film, although on three occasions it has been in the final gala with a nominated film, in 1957 with "Mother India", in 1988 with "Salaam Bombay!" and in 2001 with "Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India".
Bangladesh has been less fortunate on the XNUMX times it has presented a film so far, as it has never had any films among the nominees, so 'Television"To Mostofa Sarwar Farooki she would become the country's first candidate if she is finally selected as a candidate.
The film tells the story of the inhabitants of a village who are prohibited from using technology such as mobile phones or television itself by their leader, thus creating a struggle between the traditional and the new technologies.
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