'Drunken Birds' chosen as Canada's contender for international film Oscar
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'Drunken Birds' will represent Canada in the race for an Oscar nomination for best international feature film.
Montreal's Ivan Grbovic directed and co-wrote the drama, about a lovestruck Mexican drug cartel member who becomes a seasonal migrant worker in rural Quebec.
Sara Mishara co-wrote the film, which has the French title "Les oiseaux ivres," and stars Jorge Antonio Guerrero and Yoshira Escarrega.
Telefilm Canada says a pan-Canadian committee of about 20 voting delegates chose the project -- which includes dialogue in French, Spanish, English and Mandarin -- out of a total of 10 films submitted for Academy Awards consideration.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences must now decide which films will move on to the next round of voting in the category, with a short list of 10 films to be revealed Dec. 21.
An Arizona sheriff’s department got more than 4,000 calls within 24 hours after the release of videos of a masked person on Nancy Guthrie’s porch. Many tips will be worthless. Others could have merit. Experts say one thing’s certain: They can’t be ignored.
A five-concert “residency” by singer-songwriter and superstar Shakira in El Salvador’s capital builds on President Nayib Bukele’s yearslong effort to remake the Central American country’s international image from one of the world’s most violent countries into one of the safest.
Alexander Skarsgård doesn’t usually watch his movies more than once with an audience. But “Pillion,” in which he plays the enigmatic member of gay biker club who begins a dom-sub relationship with a younger, more inexperienced man, Colin (Harry Melling), has been an exception. He’s seen it at least four times.
Investigators in Arizona want residents near Nancy Guthrie ‘s home to share surveillance camera footage of suspicious cars or people they may have noticed in the month before she disappeared.
Investigators in Arizona are pleading with people to share home surveillance camera footage from specific dates leading up to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
Barbara Hannigan has had what most people would consider a very busy year: dozens of performances across the globe, an album release and several prestigious awards.
Friends of actor James Van Der Beek shared reactions on social media to the death of the "Dawson's Creek" star.
Fresh surveillance images from Nancy Guthrie’s porch the night she went missing, coupled with intense police activity across Arizona and the detention of a man raised hopes that authorities were nearing a major break.
A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie’s front door the night she vanished from her Arizona home.
A person has been detained for questioning in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie more than a week ago released the first surveillance images Tuesday, showing a masked person on her porch the night she went missing.
U.S. singer-songwriter Chappell Roan announced on Monday that she had left her talent agency, after its CEO was named in files related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Canadian-born comic actor died Jan. 30 at the age of 71. She was known for her roles in SCTV, Home Alone and Schitt's Creek.