The Oscars: Nadine Labaki, the Lebanese, and Talal Derkie, from Syria, have the chance to win a prize?

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The countdown to the last hours began before the awards ceremony of the Academy of Arts and Cinema (Oscar) on Sunday night.

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki has named "Capernaum" for the selection of best foreign film and Syrian director Talal Dirki "Fathers and Sons" for the selection of the best documentary.

The Egyptian-born American actor Rami Malek was also named Best Actor for the role played by singer and songwriter Freddy Mercury in the movie "Bohimian Rhapsody". He has already won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the same role, The Oscar Winner.

American actor Maher Shala Ali, who has already received the same award for "Moonlight" in 2017, has become the first Muslim actor to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

"Kfar Nahum"

The film "Capernaum" became the second Lebanese film to be nominated for Best Foreign Film Oscar after director Ziad Douiri's film "Case 23", which had been selected last year.

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The film tries to reveal the reality of marginalized groups in Lebanon from Lebanese families living under the yoke of poverty and the world of migrants living in shanty towns on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital.

In the movie, Lebke traces the life of a 12-year-old boy living in a juvenile jail and sues his parents because they gave birth to him and threw him out. in this cruel and merciless world.

In the margins of the trial, in which Labaki plays the role of boy's lawyer, the director reports on the life of it (the role of Syrian child Zain al-Rafi & # 39; i) and he brought in this case.

We come back with scenes recalling the flashback, parallel to the proceedings of the trial, to Zain's life with his parents and his seven children in a small apartment and his rebellion against his family, who is trying to marry his 11-year-old sister from a neighborhood trader where Zain works.

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On his trip away from his family, Zein drove him into a toy town to learn about an Ethiopian immigrant who was working as a servant and was trying to raise money for official papers in Lebanon, which relies on the system of sponsoring migrant workers and receives him to live with her and look after her baby Who is hiding official authorities for fear of being deported.

The arrest of the authorities leads to Rahil until Zain becomes responsible for his baby and when he goes to fetch his mother, his smuggler tries to convince him to abandon the child. in exchange for giving him money and passing it to Sweden as a Syrian refugee.

When Zain returns to his family to look for identity papers to facilitate his traffic, Zain discovers the death of his little sister after marrying the owner of the market, seized a knife from the house and stabbed his sister's husband in prison for minors.

The lawyer is aware of his case after contacting a TV show asking his parents to file a complaint against his parents, asking them to prevent them from having children so as not to let other children live the same life wretched.

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The film is full of topics such as children's rights, child marriage, immigration and human trafficking, the miserable reality of domestic workers in Lebanon and the sponsorship system that brings them closer to slavery.

The film "Capernaum" won the Special Jury Prize at its first film festival in Cannes and was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the British Film Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards.

Despite the great interest and candidacy of the film, "Capernaum" was not the best Lebanese director. She caught her attention with her first film, "Carmel" or "Sugar" in 2006, and joined her with "Hala Lewin" 2011, where she developed a distinctive approach. In the cynical treatment of the great social and political problems of Lebanese society, they often fall into the category of black comedy.

At Kfar Nahum, she approached the fall of the melodramatic trap and in many scenes tackled the emotions of her viewers, as well as her speech in a speech, especially in court.

About parents and children

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In this film, Dirkie is immersed in an adventure to unravel the world of jihadist militants and details of their daily lives with their families after having had the opportunity to enter a village controlled by the Nasra Front to describe the life of A radical militant and his relations with his sons, Osama and Ayman. Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

In order for Dirkie to do so, he was forced to present himself as a sympathetic photographer to the issue of these activists on the winning front and a fervent believer in his thinking, which allowed him to film his film several times during more than two years.

Dirkie focuses on the choices of both sons and their dreams with their fanatical father of Salafist jihadist ideology, who loses his foot in a mine blast and bombs his house during a Russian air raid.

While the father tries to get his son to follow the path he followed, the fate of the two boys is different: Ayman chooses to finish his studies, while his brother Oussama follows a training course in combat and follows the traces of his father as a jihadist.

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For 99 minutes, Dirkie attempts to enter this closed environment that produces extremism and a culture of violence, focusing on its impact on children in particular and their choices in such an environment.

This year, Dirkie won the Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Award for the second time in 2014 with his previous film "Return to Homs".

Dirki, 41, was born in Damascus and lives in Berlin, Germany. Graduate of the Higher Institute of Cinema Stavrakos in Greece in 2003, he worked as an assistant director in several Syrian films, as well as for television programs and a photographer for CNN. And Reuters before he starts making his documentary films.

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On the stock market, the Oscar silver award is awarded to "Rome" by Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, who won first place in the award-winning film "The Favorit" or "The Favorite" by Greek director Jergos Lathimos, nominations for each of 39; them.

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The film's producer, Netflix, who spent more than $ 25 million in advertising, is betting that the opening of the Oscar will open its doors in the world of cinema and will mark a turning point in the world of film reception far from the halls and the company's acceptance of its films on film platforms on the net and on television.

In the movie "Rome", Quarron returns to his family memories to describe the black and white world of a middle-class family in Mexico, focusing on Cleo, who works for the family and for his children. In front of the camera for the first time in his life.

The film is Cleo's critical situation after her association with a young man who abandoned her after her pregnancy. The family kisses and helps them. When the grandmother takes her to buy furniture to accommodate the little child, she faces demonstrations and security forces to calm the protesters.

When two of the protesters try to hide in the furniture store, Clio discovers that his former boyfriend is part of a militia or death squad called "hawks" who kill protesters and opponents and when he sees her in the store, he points his gun at his head. The hospital later.

The film ends with an intimate scene as the family tries to get Cleo out of his crisis and take him on a trip to the beach with the kids, where two children are about to drown and can save them even if she does not know how to swim.

The film takes the title "Rome" from the name of the neighborhood where the director was raised in Quaron, the capital of Mexico, and shot in the same neighborhood.

On the technical side, Quaron filmed his film in black and white with a 65mm camera and tried to restore the atmosphere of the new Italian realism.

"His favorite"

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The favorite film or "favorite" is a dramatic comedy set in England in the early 18th century, with the rise of Queen Anne to the throne and her childhood friend, Duchess Marlboro Sarah Churchill, to become her owner. Her confidence in her gives him considerable influence and interference in the country's government, but the arrival of a cousin called Abigail to serve as a housekeeper in the palace makes this budget later.

The roles of the film include British actress Olivia Coleman as Queen Anne and Emma Stone as Abigail and Rachel Weisz as Sarah Churchill, and the three triplets of the Oscar nomination were nominated for the best actress and actress in a supporting role.

The term "privileged" in English means a person close to the sovereign or an influential person and, in the customs of the European regimes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the sovereign attributes to this people an important political role.

Other nominations included "Star Generator" and "Vice President", each with eight nominations, and "Black Tiger" with seven nominations.