'Alcarràs' is left out of the Oscar race and 'Argentina, 1985' and 'Bardo' enter the shortlist

Ricardo Darín is the protagonist of 'Argentina, 1985', a film by Santiago Miter for Amazon.AP

Argentina, 1985

have entered this Wednesday in the list of 15 shortlisted for the Oscar for best international film.

They will be the only Latin American representatives, for Argentina and Mexico, respectively, since

, by director Carla Simón, the Spanish representative and winner of the last Berlinale, has been left out of the competition by failing the first cut among the 92 titles sent by as many countries to the Hollywood Film Academy.

In addition to this shortlist, the lists of candidates for the categories of Documentary, Documentary Short, Makeup and Hairdressing, Original Music, Song, Fiction Short and Animated Short, Sound and Visual Effects have been announced.

The nominees for the 95th edition of the awards will be announced on the morning of January 24.

The final gala will be held in Los Angeles on March 12.

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has made the cut in five of the technical awards screened today;

one more than

, and it is very possible that it will end up nominated in all those sections.

Argentina, 1985

, directed by Santiago Miter and starring Ricardo Darín, consolidates its solid run through the awards season.

A few days ago, the feature film distributed worldwide by Amazon showing the trial of the Military Junta received a Golden Globe nomination in the foreign film category.

Those awards, which are trying to rise from their fall from grace, left out

by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who has entered among the 15 shortlisted for the International Film Oscar category.

It is the third time that Iñárritu, who already has five statuettes in other sections, appears in this category.

He did it before with

, in 2001, and

, ten years later.

These films are accompanied by the Polish

, by the very veteran Jerzy Skolimowski, the story of a donkey that has captivated international critics since its premiere in Cannes.

Plus, there's Netflix's German war drama

(as

Edward Berger's film revisits Erich Maria Remarque's novel about World War I, and sounds among the favorites in this category.

The Academy has also recognized her this Wednesday in four other sections: Makeup and Hairdressing, Sound, Visual Effects and Original Music.

The shortlisted list has also confirmed the great moment that South Korean cinema is experiencing.

, by Park Chan-Wook, one of its great creators, has also entered as another of the favorites to be in the final five.

The director of

and

directs a

with a Hitchcockian air with a detective and a femme fatale.

The rest of the films include

from Austria;

, from Belgium;

, from Cambodia;

the Danish

(which takes place in Tehran);

, from France,

from Morocco ,

India

(which won at Seminci) and the Swedish

.

Pakistan has achieved for the first time that a film of its own passes the screen with

.

The milestone has been achieved by filmmaker Saim Sadiq with a powerful story that has broken taboos, a romance between a married man and a trans woman.

The drama received the jury prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, where it was also the first Pakistani film in competition.

The film has been censored in his country, but the authorities relented and have allowed its release in theaters with some modifications.