Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorNorway has selected Maria Sodhal’s Hope as its submission to the International Feature Film Oscar race.
The drama world premiered in the Discovery section of the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and was screened in Panorama at Berlin this year.
There, it took the Europa Cinemas Label Award and earlier this week garnered two European Film Awards nominations, for Sodhal in the European Director category and for star Andrea Braein Hovig in European Actress.
Stellan Skarsgard also stars.Hovig plays Anja, a 43-year-old woman who receives a terminal brain cancer diagnosis the day before Christmas.
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