Lebanon will seek its first Oscar nomination with "Ghadi"

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One more time and for the 11th time, Lebanon will seek to win his first Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

The film selected this year in the country for such honor has been "Ghadi" by Amin dora.

Lebanon has not even managed to pass the first Oscar preselection, although everything indicates that Nadine Labaki he would not be far behind on the two occasions in which he represented the country, in 2007 with «Caramel»And in 2011 with«Where Do We Go Now?«, Two films that were among the favorites, but that finally were left out at the first change.

"Ghadi" is the first feature film by Amin Dora, who received an International Emmy Award for his previous work, the short film "shankaboot"In 2011.

This debut by Amin Dora was one of the most outstanding of the Pusan ​​International Film Festival, where he got the Audience Award.

«ghadi»Tells the story of Leba, a music instructor and Lara, a French literature teacher, who after having two daughters, are finally going to have a boy, what happens is that he is going to be born with special needs. Lea will try to make believe that her son is very special, that he is a God sent to earth

More information - Films shortlisted by each country for the Oscar 2015


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