Slovakia has selected Michal Blasko’s drama Victim as its entry for the international feature award at the 2023 Oscars.
The film debuted in Horizons at Venice Film Festival earlier this month, going on to play in Contemporary World Cinema at Toronto.
It will have its Asian bow in competition at Busan International Film Festival next month. German-based Pluto Film is handling world sales on the title.
Victim follows a Ukrainian immigrant living with her son in a small Czech border town. She is devastated when he is assaulted by three Roma people; but then she begins to spot inconsistencies in his story.
It is a German-Czech-Slovak co-production, that came second in the running to be the Czech Oscar entry behind Petr Vaclav’s Il Boemo. Production companies are Electric Sheep from Germany, Nutprodukce from Czech Republic and Nutprodukcia from Slovakia.
The film is Blasko’s debut feature; his short Atlantis, 2003 played at Cannes in 2017, going on to win the Czech Lion for best short film; while he directed mini-series Suspicion, which premiered in Berlinale Series this year.
It is Slovakia’s 26th entry to the international feature award, with the country having only missed four years since it was founded as a sovereign nation in 1993. It is yet to receive its first nomination or place on the pre-nomination shortlist.
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