Once more South Africa will try to win the Oscar, this year his chosen film has been "Elelwani".
11th film that presents the country to the preselection to Oscar for best film in a foreign language To date, the one achieved by South Africa, an award of two nominations, has been quite successful.
In 2005 the African country got its first nomination with «Yesterday»By Darrell Roodt, a year later he would repeat his candidacy with«tsotsi»By Gavin Hood, a film that would end up winning the precious statuette.
South Africa's latest feat at the Academy Awards was in 2011 when Oliver Schmitz's film 'Life Above All»It passed the first preselection and was among the nine best films in the category, although it was finally left out of the nominations.
This year South Africa tries again with "Elelwani", a new album by Ntshaveni Wa Luruli who became known a decade ago when he won the Crystal Bear in the Generation 14 section of the Berlinale in 2004 with his film "The Wooden Camera."
The film tells the story of elelwani, a girl who wants to spend her life with her boyfriend with whom she aspires to travel abroad. After his university graduation he returns to see his family in the rural area where he comes from, there he finds that his parents are not in favor of that relationship and they hope that their daughter will become the wife of the local king, despite the fact that she she is not willing to do so.
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