{"id":98997,"date":"2025-08-27T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98997\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:20:09","slug":"belgium-submits-dardennes-young-mothers-for-best-intl-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98997\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Submits Dardennes’ \u2018Young Mothers\u2019 For Best Int’l Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBelgium<\/a> has selected Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne<\/a>\u2019s drama Young Mothers<\/a> as its submission for the Best International Feature Film<\/a> category of the 98th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe drama, which is the fraternal directorial duo\u2019s 13th feature, revolves around five young women living in a temporary shelter for underage mothers.<\/p>\n

\n\tYoung Mothers world premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival<\/a> in May, winning Best Screenplay and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It was the brothers\u2019 ninth time in Competition at Cannes<\/a>, where they previously won the Palme d\u2019Or for Rosetta\u00a0in 1999 and The Child in 2005.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey have previously represented Belgium in the Oscar race with Rosetta, The Son (2002), The Child (2005) and Two Days, One Night (2014), but have never been nominated.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Belgian selection committee comprised producer Gregory Zalcman (Flow) at Brussels-based Take Five; Eva Kuperman (The Successor) at Brussels-based Stenola Productions; Juliette Duret, Head of Cinema at Centre for Fine Arts Brussels BOZAR; as well as directors Lenny van Wesemael (Leef) and Sahim Omar Kalifa (Baghdad Messi).<\/p>\n

\n\tProducer Hilde De Laere (How to Kill Your Sister) presided over the selection jury.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is a co-production between the Dardennes\u2019 Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, The Reunion, France 2 Cin\u00e9ma, Be Tv & Orange, Proximus, and RTBF (T\u00e9l\u00e9vision belge), in association with Goodfellas, Diaphana Distribution and Cin\u00e9art. Goodfellas is handling international sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tEight Belgian films have been nominated in the Best International Feature Film or Best Foreign Film categories since Belgium began participating in the Academy Awards in 1967. The last to make it to the nomination stage was Lukas Dhont\u2019s Close in 2022, while the previous year Laura Wandel\u2019s Playground made it onto the shortlist of the 94th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will announce the shortlisted films for the 2026 Oscars<\/a> on December 16, and the nominated films on January 22, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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