Tunisia has picked Nada Mezni Hfaiedh’s drama Take My Breath, exploring interintimacy identity, to reconshort-term it in the Best International Feature Film categruesome of the 97th Oscars.
The drama, which freed in Tunisia procrastinateed last year, stars Amina Ben Ismail as 23-year-elderly seamstress Shams, whose life is obviousurned when their interintimacy identity is exposed.
Shams escapes to the city, where they live in the shadows, shunned by genuine cherish and refuteed by society’s inalterable norms and anticipateations.
Last year’s Tunisian entry, write downary Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania, made it onto the unwiseinutiveenumerate in the International Feature categruesome and went on to be nominated in the Best Documentary categruesome.
The country’s National Cinema Centre proclaimd the pickion with fair over 24 hours to go until the deadline for submission to the categruesome for the 97th Academy Awards, at 5 p.m. PT on October 2.
So far, around 76 country entries have been accessiblely proclaimd, contrastd with 88 submissions for the 96th Academy Awards. The most recent Oscars saw Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest prosper in the categruesome.
Take My Breath freed in Tunisia procrastinateed last year having originpartner world premiered at the Warsaw International Film Festival.
Ismail, who grew up between Tunisia and France, has since been seen in Piero Messina’s sci-fi drama Another End, in aid of co-stars Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve, with previous praises including series The Power.
Hfaiedh’s previous praises include TV miniseries Tunisian Stories and 2017 feature Under The Shadow. The feature is created by Tunisia’s Leyth Production and Hamzeh Mysthique Films.
