Argentina is backing Luis Ortega’s equestrian-themed surreal comedy-thriller Kill the Jockey for the 2025 Oscar race in one of the best worldwide function class.

The movie, which premiered in Venice, options BPM star Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Remo Manfredini, a troubled jockey who begins to query his masculine identification shifts after a critical accident on the observe. When he disappears from the hospital and wanders the streets of Buenos Aires, making an attempt to find who he’s actually meant to be, he’s pursued by mobster boss Sirena (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), to whom he’s deep in debt, and who desires Remo discovered, useless or alive.

A mash-up of psychological thriller and comedy of manners, with a heavy dose of surrealist camp, the movie might be a novel Academy Award entry this season.

Kill the Jockey was produced by Ortega and Esteban Perroud by way of their manufacturing label El Despacho along with Rei Footage’ Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli and Matías Roveda; Infinity Hill’s Axel Kuschevatzky and Cindy Teperman; Warner Music Leisure’s Charlie Cohen and Exile’s Nando Vila and Paz Lázaro. Benicio Del Toro is among the many govt producers.

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Argentina has been nominated eight occasions for one of the best worldwide function Academy Award — most just lately for Santiago Mitre’s political drama Argentina, 1985 in 2022 — and has received the Oscar twice.

The shortlist for greatest worldwide function contenders might be unveiled on Dec. 17. Nominations might be introduced Jan. 17, 2025. The 2025 Academy Awards might be held on Sunday, March 2.