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Spotlight: 2025 Submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Part III

Eighty-nine countries submitted films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Film. This week we continue our Spotlight on those that are available for streaming, including nominee The Wild Robot and winners Conclave and Emilia Perez.

2025 Submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Part III
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Spotlight: 2025 Submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Part II

Eighty-nine countries submitted films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Film. This week we continue our Spotlight on those that are available for streaming, including I’m Still Here from Brazil, which won the Oscar for that category, as well as Flow, from Latvia, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

2025 Submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Part II
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Spotlight: 2025 Submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Congratulations to Brazil, which won the Oscar for Best International Film at the 97th Academy Awards for I’m Still Here (also nominated for Best Picture). However, 88 other countries also submitted films for consideration, and this week we present some of those that are available for streaming.

2025 Submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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Spotlight: Sci Fi

Technology is advancing at a faster rate than ever before. To coincide with recent developments in artificial intelligence, this spotlight features science fiction films in celebration of a genre that explores themes of technology, extraterrestrial life, time travel, and speculative futures.

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Spotlight: Musicians' Stories

With the recent influx of musical biopics, musicians’ stories have taken center-stage in film. These films focus on the lives and stories of real and fictional musicians, including several fictitious tales based on existing artists.

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Spotlight: Actresses, Acting

In a film industry so heavily driven by the male gaze and gender performance, what does it mean for a woman to act? How do female characters influence reality? This Spotlight's films explore actresses' experiences with gender, identity, memory, appearance, parenthood, friendship, and relationships, as well as the nature of performance itself.

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Spotlight: Chinese New Year

Chinese Lunar New Year is coming up this Wednesday! Which, under the Chinese zodiac system, means we’re about to leave behind the Year of the Dragon and begin the Year of the Snake. In celebration, we’ve created a Spotlight whereby each film is dedicated to one of the Chinese zodiac’s twelve animals.

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Spotlight: International Movie Musicals

While some movie musicals are still marketed in a way that downplays or downright conceals their genre, critical darling Emilia Perez has garnered ten Golden Globe nominations and is already shortlisted for six Academy Awards. In celebration of the movie musical, the following list features some of our favorites from around the world.

International Movie Musicals
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Spotlight: Best of 2024

At the dawn of a new year, we wanted to share some our favorite films released in the previous one. Some of these picks are awards season frontrunners, others may have passed under the radar. They are big films and small, fiction, documentary, animation, and of course, a musical.

Best of 2024
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