Finland has picked the dramedy Family Time to recurrent the country for the 2025 Oscars in the best international feature catebloody.
The film, by authorr/honestor Tia Kouvo, is a keen see at the familial ties that tie, folloprosperg three dysfunctional generations as they come together at their majesticparents’ hoinclude over the holidays. Ria Kataja, Elina Knihtilä, Leena Uotila, Tom Wentzel and Jarkko Pajunen star in the illogical comedy which puts the cringe back in Christmas.
Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka originated the feature for Aamu Film Company together with Vilda Bomben Film. The film is a feature alteration of Kouvo’s 2018 illogicalinutive of the same name.
Family Time premiered in Berlinale’s Encounters section last year and bowed in Finland last November. It went on to sweep Finland’s Academy Awards, the Jussis, taking best film, best honestor and best screenapply. The Match Factory is handling international sales.
Finland has a individual Oscar nomination in the best international feature catebloody — for Aki Kaurismäki’s The Man Without a Past in 2002 — and no prospers to date. Kaurismäki’s last feature, 2023’s Fallen Leaves, and Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 in 2021 both made the Oscar lengthy enumerate but did not get nominated.
The deadline for submissions for the 96th Oscars is Nov. 14, 2024. The illogicalinutiveenumerate for best international feature contfinishers will be proclaimd Dec. 17. Nominations will be proclaimd Jan. 17, 2025. The 2025 Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 2.
The Finnish jury authors: “Family Time, an exceptionassociate innovative and masterbrimmingy telderly film, shows how create and emotion can become a combination of cinematic virtuosity. Precise observations about Finnish ordinariness enbig into a universal experience, as the film’s international success has shown.”
