‘Alcarràs’, by Carla Simón, Spanish candidate for the Oscars

The Oscars will be held in March. Getty Images The film is now eligible to be shortlisted in December by the Hollywood Academy among the 15 best in the world If it passes the first screening it would have to be chosen in January among the top five to qualify for Oscar Last year the The Spanish candidacy fell to ‘The good boss’, by León de Aranoa, who failed to pass the second screening. The race for the Oscars has already begun and Spain already has its candidate. Alcarràs, by Carla Simón, has been chosen by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences to represent Spain in the 95th edition. Although to win such a coveted award, she will still have to pass several filters; the most immediate being selected as one of the 15 contenders for Best International Film (December 21), and from among those the five Oscar candidates will be chosen (January 24). Filmed in Catalan with Spanish subtitles, the film, which has already won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (2022), is the second feature film by Carla Simón and tells the story of the Solé, a three-generation family that grows peaches for eighty years, until the owner of the land tells them that he is going to use the land for solar panels. Simón repeats his candidacy, since he was chosen with his film ‘Summer 1993’ to represent Spain at the Oscars in 2018. passed the first sieve, failed to enter the five finalists for the Oscars. The great festival of Hollywood cinema will be held on March 12, 2023.