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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]. The other films vying for the candidacy were Predrag Velinović's Nowhere and Petar Pašić's Of Bugs and Heroes.