Serbia opts to take Offenders to the Oscars
- Dejan Zečević's arthouse thriller will represent the Balkan country in the Foreign Language Oscars race
This week Serbia announced their submissions for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award 2019. The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has opted for Dejan Zečević's black-and-white arthouse thriller Offenders [+see also:
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It may come as a surprise that the Academy's selection committee opted for this title over Mila Turajlić's IDFA winner The Other Side of Everything [+see also:
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film profile]. The other films vying for the candidacy were Predrag Velinović's Nowhere and Petar Pašić's Of Bugs and Heroes.
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