Two Arab films on the preliminary Oscars list

The Tunisian movie “Daughters of Olfa” and the Moroccan movie “White Lies” were selected connected the preliminary database for the Best International Film Oscar successful the ninety-sixth league of the astir celebrated grant successful the world.

The Tunisian Ministry of Cultural Affairs had officially announced that, for the archetypal clip successful the past of Tunisian cinema, the movie “Daughters of Olfa” by Kaouther Ben Haniyeh was competing connected the 2 abbreviated lists for the Oscars successful its ninety-sixth session, which is the database of documentary films and the database of champion planetary film.

The film's events revolve astir the existent communicative of a Tunisian pistillate named Olfa Hamrouni, who loses her 2 daughters aft they decided to articulation ISIS successful Libya.

The Moroccan movie "White Lies", directed by Moroccan manager Asmaa El-Moudir, was besides nominated for the Oscar for Best International Film. The movie won the Grand Prize, the Golden Star, astatine the Marrakesh International Film Festival.

It is noteworthy that the Egyptian movie “Foy, Foy, Foy” failed to marque it to the archetypal list, which unluckily seems to beryllium communal for Egyptian cinema.

 It is worthy noting that the preliminary database for the champion planetary movie includes 15 films from among dozens of films that were nominated by their countries to vie for the grant that is fixed annually to films produced extracurricular the United States

The shortlist for the Best International Film Award is expected to beryllium announced successful January, and the sanction of the winning movie volition beryllium announced astatine the Academy Awards ceremonial connected March 10 astatine the Dolby Theater successful Los Angeles