{"id":17771,"date":"2025-09-15T13:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/17771\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:34:06","slug":"poland-selects-franz-as-best-international-feature-oscar-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/17771\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland Selects \u2018Franz\u2019 As Best International Feature Oscar Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/poland\/\" id=\"auto-tag_poland\" data-tag=\"poland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poland<\/a> has selected Agnieszka Holland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/franz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_franz\" data-tag=\"franz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Franz<\/a> Kafka biopic Franz as its candidate for the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/best-international-feature-film\/\" id=\"auto-tag_best-international-feature-film\" data-tag=\"best-international-feature-film\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best International Feature Film<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/98th-academy-awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_98th-academy-awards\" data-tag=\"98th-academy-awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">98th Academy awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNews of the selection follows in the wake of the feature\u2019s recent world premiere as a special presentation at TIFF&gt; <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIdan Weiss stars as Kafka, a young man trapped in a nightmare of bureaucratic daily life, reminiscent of today\u2019s reality of employees of large corporations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPlunged into an existential crisis long before loneliness became a side effect of social media, he escapes into a world of irony, absurdity and imagination, creating works that will make him one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe selection process overseen by the Polish Film Institute was made by a committee chaired by Ewa Puszczynska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe shortlist of seven films also featured Michal Kwiecinski\u2019s Chopin, Chopin!, Wojciech Smarzowski\u2019s Good House, Lukasz Karwowski\u2019s Two Sisters, Arjun Talwar\u2019s Letters from the Wolf, Maciej J. Drygas\u2019 Trains and Juliusz Machulski\u2019s VINCI 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe committee also featured Agatha Dominik, Kamila Dorbach, Bartosz Konopka. Joanna Kos-Krauze, Hanna Raniszewska, Krzysztof Sp\u00f3r, Krzysztof Terej and Gra\u017cyna Torbicka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is lead produced by\u00a0\u0160\u00e1rka Cimbalov\u00e1 under the banner of the Czech Republic\u2019s Marlene Film Production, with Holland. Co-producers are Uwe Schott, Jorgo Narjes, Marcin Wierzchos\u0142awski and Alicja Jagodzi\u0144ska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poland has selected Agnieszka Holland\u2019s Franz Kafka biopic Franz as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17115,17392,17393,17117,146,17394,85,46,4436],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-98th-academy-awards","tag-awards-news","tag-awardsline","tag-best-international-feature-film","tag-entertainment","tag-franz","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}