Oscars guide: We map out the 5 films nominated for best international feature
They range in themes, languages and political urgency, but this year's stellar five nominees for the Best International Feature Film Oscar are each deserving of your time for their distinct pleasures.
This year's Academy Award nominees for international feature tackle their disparate subjects using vastly different approaches; go looking for a common thematic thread and you'll come away disappointed. But let's try anyway.
Three of the five tackle capital-I issues of going concern in the world: Io Capitano dramatizes the plight of migrants, and two (The Teachers' Lounge, The Zone) implicate the viewer by examining the complicity which allows fascism to thrive. The two remaining films () share nothing in common in terms of subject (a plane crash and toilet cleaning, respectively), but both celebrate the preciousness of life, in their way.
