Bosnia and Herzegovina has chosen My Late Summer season, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danis Tanović, as its official submission for the 2025 Oscar race in the most effective worldwide function movie class.
The comedy-drama, which debuted because the opening movie at this 12 months’s Sarajevo Movie Competition, follows Maja, a feisty 30-something (performed by Anja Matković), who journeys to a distant island to resolve a household inheritance dispute, solely to be confronted with unresolved points from her previous. What begins as a quest for materials wealth transforms right into a deeper seek for id and forgiveness as she falls in love with the charming island locale and its quirky locals and an surprising romance blooms.
Propeler Movie produced My Late Summer season in co-production with Tangaj Manufacturing, Obala Artwork Centar, Baš Čelik, and Tramal Movies.
Whereas greatest identified for his Bosnian movies, Tanović has additionally tried his hand at English-language options, together with the 2020 crime thriller The Postcard Killings (2020), starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Famke Janssen, and Cush Jumbo, and Triage (2009), which stars Collin Ferrell as a warfare photographer.
Tanović isn’t any stranger to the Oscars. He stays the one Bosnian director to have received the Academy Award, taking the most effective worldwide function honor in 2002 together with his anti-war drama No Man’s Land. His 2013 docudrama An Episode within the Lifetime of an Iron Picker, which received two Silver Bears on the Berlin Movie Competition, made the Oscar shortlist however was not nominated. The one different Bosnian director nominated for an Academy Award is Jasmila Žbanić, whose Quo vadis, Aida? made the ultimate 5 in 2021.
The shortlist for greatest worldwide function contenders will likely be introduced Dec. 17. Nominations will likely be introduced Jan. 17, 2025. The 97th Academy Awards will likely be held on Sunday, March 2.