Switzerland Submit IRAQI ODYSSEY as Foreign Language Entry for Oscars

Variety reports that Switzerland's Federal Office of Culture (OFC) has selected the 3-D documentary IRAQI ODYSSEY as the country's foreign-language entry for the Oscars.

IRAQI ODYSSEY tells the story of the director Samir's family who live in New Zealand, Russia, France, the UK and Buffalo, New York. Samir himself lives in Switzerland but was born in Baghdad. The OFC called the film, "a unique insight into a country marked by war and caricatured by stereotypes in the media".

IRAQI ODYSSEY, which is a co-production between Switzerland, Germany and UAE, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014.

THE FIVE films that will compete to win the Oscar for foreign-language film will be announced on January 14, 2016. The Oscar awards ceremony will take place on February 28, 2016.

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