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Oscars: Enclave runs for Serbia, The High Sun for Croatia

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- Serbia has selected Goran Radovanović's Enclave as its Oscar candidate, while Croatia opted for Dalibor Matanić's The High Sun

Oscars: Enclave runs for Serbia, The High Sun for Croatia
Enclave by Goran Radovanović

The Serbian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences has announced that it has selected Goran Radovanović's Enclave [+see also:
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as the country's submission for the Best Foreign-language Film Academy Award.

The winner of the Audience Award at the Moscow International Film Festival, Enclave tackles the theme of the position of the Serbian minority in isolated communities in Kosovo. Starring Nebojša Glogovac, Anica Dobra, Filip Šubarić and Denis Murić, it is a co-production by Nama Film (Serbia), Sein + Hain Film and ZDF (Germany), in co-operation with Arte.

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The film unexpectedly beat frontrunners such as Vuk Ršumović's No One's Child [+see also:
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(which also features young actor Murić), Darko Lungulov's Monument to Michael Jackson [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Darko Lungulov
film profile
]
and Mina Djukić's The Disobedient [+see also:
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, as well as Darko Bajić's We Will Be the World Champions [+see also:
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and Srdjan Koljević's I Defended Young Bosnia. 

On the other hand, Croatia selected a clear favourite: Dalibor Matanić's Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner The High Sun [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dalibor Matanic
interview: Tihana Lazovic
film profile
]
.

The Association of Croatian Filmmakers opted for Matanic's film ahead of Ivona Juka's You Carry Me [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Ivona Juka
film profile
]
Ognjen Sviličić's These Are the Rules [+see also:
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Daniel Kušan's Love or Death [+see also:
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Zvonimir Jurić's The Reaper [+see also:
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interview: Zvonimir Jurić
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]
Igor Filipović's After the Dream and Vanja Sviličić's Zagreb Cappuccino

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