The film Life in a Fishbowl by director Baldvin Zophoníasson has been selected as Iceland’s entry for the 2015 Best Foreign Language Oscar, reports the National Broadcasting Service. The selection was made by an all members vote of the Icelandic Film and TV Academy.
The drama tells the story of a single mother and call girl, a banker and a former writer turned drunk and whose lives intertwine in a surprising way.
This is Baldvin’s second feature film. His first, Jitters form 2010, received widespread critical acclaim.
Two Icelandic films have previously been nominated in the Oscar race: Children of Nature by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson in 1992; and The Last Farm, by Rúnar Rúnarsson, was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film in 2006.
The film Life in a Fishbowl by director Baldvin Zophoníasson has been selected as Iceland’s entry for the 2015 Best Foreign Language Oscar, reports the National Broadcasting Service. The selection was made by an all members vote of the Icelandic Film and TV Academy.
The drama tells the story of a single mother and call girl, a banker and a former writer turned drunk and whose lives intertwine in a surprising way.
This is Baldvin’s second feature film. His first, Jitters form 2010, received widespread critical acclaim.
Two Icelandic films have previously been nominated in the Oscar race: Children of Nature by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson in 1992; and The Last Farm, by Rúnar Rúnarsson, was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film in 2006.
