Frame from 'The Snow Society' with the survivors inside the crashed plane.
The film
The Snow Society,
by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, is one of the five nominees for best foreign language film at the BAFTA awards from the British Film Academy.
Along with the film that narrates the tragedy of a Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes, others such as the Ukrainian documentary
20 days in Mariupol
, by Mstyslav Chernov, will compete for the award;
the French
Anatomy of a Fall, by
Justin Triet,
the English The Zone of Interest
, by Jonathan Glazer, and the American Korean-language
Past Lives,
by Celine Song.
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'The Snow Society', among the 10 most viewed non-English speaking films in the history of Netflix in just 11 days
The gala will be held on February 18, with
Oppenheimer
, by Christopher Nolan, as the favorite feature film, after achieving 13 nominations, including best film, direction and leading actor.
The film biography of the physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb will fight for the most desired award with
Poor Creatures
, by Yorgos Lanthimos (11 nominations),
The Assassins of the Moon
, by Martin Scorsese, and
The Zone of Interest,
both with nine options to win a prize.
The Snow Society
thus continues its streak of nominations at international ceremonies, after competing, although unsuccessfully, for the Golden Globes, among other awards, and waiting to know if it manages to be among the five finalists for the Oscar for best film. international.
At the same time, Bayona's film faces the Goya gala, next February 10 in Valladolid, with 13 nominations, only two below
20,000 species of bees,
by Estibaliz Urresola, its main rival in film recognition Spanish.
The film received good reviews since its world premiere at the last Venice Film Festival.
At the same time, Bayona's film, which can still be seen in some theaters in Spain, has taken Netflix by storm, the platform that produced it and now shows it in its
online catalogue.
The film has accumulated 51 million views in just two weeks since its emergence on the Internet and has been placed among the 10 most viewed non-English speaking films in the history of Netflix.