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Which film should win the Ozzie for Best International Film.

Free Guy
2 (16.7%)
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
1 (8.3%)
Trixy Holmes
1 (8.3%)
Livy Knight and the Curse Breaker Club
2 (16.7%)
Man Standing Next
2 (16.7%)
The Guardian
1 (8.3%)
Death of Stalin
3 (25%)
Cool Runnings
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 7

Voting closed: February 27, 2022, 08:07:11 PM

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Ozzie for Best International Film 2022
« on: February 22, 2022, 08:07:11 PM »
Name of Film: Free Guy
Genre: Action/Comedy/Science Fiction
Nation: Tytor
Brief Outline: "A mild-mannered bank teller named Guy learns he's really a background character in an open-world video game.  Every day, Guy is under assault by players and objects within the game, where he's robbed, hit by cars, and otherwise mistreated as a 'non-player character' (NPC).  To make matters worse, the game's owner has decided to end the game.  Teaming with a woman who's both a human and a character in the game, Guy decides to become the hero of his own story.  Now, in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it's too late."
Trailer: Linky

Name of Film: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure/Comedy
Nation: Tytor
Brief Outline: "When four high schoolers power up an old video game console, they suddenly find themselves transported into the jungle world of Jumanji as their four avatars."
Trailer: Linky



Name of Film: Trixy Holmes
Genre: Drama/Mystery
Nation: Achkaerin
Brief Outline: Bringing the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes to the big screen for a new generation, as an elderly and frail Holmes (Michael Hendry) squares up against his old nemesis Moriarty for what he is determined will be the final time he and his long time friend and assistant Dr Watson (Kay Fox) are startled by a surprise visitor to 221B Baker Street - Trixy Holmes (Rachel Kilkenny), the granddaughter Sherlock never knew he had and when she begins to assist in the investigation Holmes, whose health continues to fail, races to teach her his "art of deduction." before his time is up.



Name of Film: Livy Knight and the Curse Breaker Club (OOC - I have had C's permission to do this for about 3 years, so it's finally happening)
Genre: Fantasy/Drama
Nation: Achkaerin
Brief Outline: Meet Livy Knight, an eleven year old whose parents run a pub, just an ordinary girl or so she thinks until her world is turned upside down by a letter inviting her to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, here she'll make friends, here she'll discover the wonder of magic and when a symbol associated to Klingsor appears and curses the school Livy finds herself at the centre of a mystery the full extent of which seems unknown - can she and her new friends break this curse and find out who cast it?

Name of Film: "Man Standing Next"
Genre: Political thriller
Nation: Djabidjan
Brief Outline: General Park Jung-sik, as Minister of Defense from 1966 to 1971, and President of the National Council from 1968 until his death in 1976, became the highest-ranking political official of the Social Republic of Djabidjan in the late 1960s. After Prime Minister Nguyen Van Huynh is dismissed, Park's authoritarian personal rule is consolidated in the already military-led Social Republic. In the midst of a reign of fear, incresing economic decline and social turmoil, a former intelligence director goes into exile, opening the truth about the regime's obscure and illegal operations. As tensions escalates, stifing political maneuvers by those desiring power collide explosively.
Link to the trailer: Link

Name of Film: "The Guardian"
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Nation: Djabidjan
Brief Outline: Ly is a backup singer for a successful Djabidjani singer, who is going to sing as opening act in Cool Rokkenjima concert in Jangju. That night, her friend will gave her a mysterious doll as a present. Since then, events will unravel, forcing Ly to make an unprecedented and fateful decision.
Link to the trailer: Link


Name of Film: "The Death of Stalin"
Genre: Historical Political Satirical Comedy
Nation: Nis
Brief Outline: After being in power for decades, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Link to trailer: Linkle


Name of Film - Cool Runnings
Genre - Sporting Comedy
Nation - Paracambi
Brief Outline

Just months before the Summer Games three outstanding Paracambian athletes see themselves fail to qualify. Desperate for sporting greatness one of them leads a seemingly impossible attempt to qualify for the Winter Games, despite none of them having ever seen snow. Recruiting sprinters from across the Empire a team is formed and unorthadox training takes place before the team qualify against all odds. As misfits from a tropical paradise they begin as outsiders to the Games family but soon their pride in their nation and heritage see them win friends and respect. Based on the true story of the first Paracambian Winter Games athletes the feel good tale recreates the prejudice they faced and their heroic journey.

Link to the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BqngFzt-cU


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