02/12/2013 - Dva by Mickey Nedimovic is part of ten short films selected by the AMPAS for the Oscar nomination in this category

From the 120 short films submitted for consideration to the AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), ten semi-finalists were selected for the Best Short Film Oscar category. A German title is amongst them: Dva, by the director of Serbian origin Mickey Nedimovic.

This Dani Barsch production for Filoufilm, played by German actor of Croatian origin Stipe Erceg (The Edukators, The Baader Meinhof Complex) and Carlo Ljubek (The World is Big [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Shahada [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] – read the review), tells the story in 26 minutes of an extraordinary and absurd confrontation taking place in 1993 in the mountains between a Croatian man and a Serbian sniper whose antagonism is matched only by their common destiny. The film, written by Nedimovic himself, had its avant-premiere last year at the Max Ophüls Festival in Sarrebruck, where it won the first of a long list of prizes.

It is worth noting that two Germans, Max Lang and Jan Lachauer, hope to receive nominations for the Oscars in the Best Animated Short Film category, for the British production Room on the Broom.

From the ten semi-finalists for the Best Short Film Oscar, five nominees will be chosen on January 16. The Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 2, 2014.

(Translated from French)