Brazil has selected Walter Salles’ well-received comeback feature I'm Still Here to represent it in the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. The picture stars Fernanda Torres as the real-life figure of Eunice Paiva,

Italy will send Maura Delpero’s World War 2 drama Vermiglio into the 2025 Oscar race for Best International Feature. Vermiglio premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month, where it scooped up the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.

Maura Delpero's intimate epic "Vermiglio," which recently won the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, has been designated as Italy's candidate for the best international feature film category of the 2025 Academy Awards.

Iran has selected In the Arms of the Tree as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards. Iran’s Farabi Cinema Foundation made the announcement this morning. IRNA, the country’s English-language news service, said the pick was made after “a 10-day review process.”

Brazil has picked Walter Salles’ new feature, I’m Still Here to represent the country at next year’s Oscar race for Best International Feature, 26 years after Salles scooped an Oscar nom in the same category for his 1998 international breakthrough,

Italy on Tuesday picked Vermiglio by Maura Delpero as its best international feature Oscars submission. The movie beat out a shortlist of 18 Italian contenders including Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenope at a meeting on Tuesday of the selection committee in Rome.