Foreigners of Oscars at Istanbul Modern

Foreigners of Oscars at Istanbul Modern

ISTANBUL

‘Corn Island,’ starring Ilyas Salman, is among the films at Istanbul Modern.

With the Academy Awards approaching, Istanbul Modern Cinema will offer a reminder of the candidates for “Best Foreign Language Film.”

Between Jan. 8 and 18, “The Foreigners of the Oscars” will present a selection of films in the race to compete for an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category, which will be announced soon.

The films in the program represent a category which brings together films from diverse cultures and languages, were big hits in world festivals and, despite being Oscar-nominated, are outside the Hollywood track.

Among films featured in the program will be the Georgian entry “Corn Island” (Simindis Kundzuli) starring Ilyas Salman; Ruben Östlund’s “Force Majeure from Sweden,” which won the Jury Prize in the “Un Certain Regard” section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival; “Leviathan,” which won the award for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival this year and whose director, Andrey Zvyagintsev, won the Golden Lion in 2003 with his film “The Return”; and Mauritania’s entry about the silent resistance, “Timbuktu”, the latest film by Abderrahmane Sissako, one of the most renowned filmmakers of African cinema.