Overview

• The preselected films are Homo Argentum, Algo nuevo, algo viejo, algo prestado, La mujer de la fila, and Belén.
• Two titles will be chosen from the slate, with one sent to compete for the Oscars’ International Feature Film and another for the Goyas’ Best Ibero-American Film.
• The announcement is set for Wednesday, September 24, at an industry event where Graciela Borges will open the envelope.
• Homo Argentum, directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat and starring Guillermo Francella, is the top-grossing Argentine film of the year.
• Belén draws on a 2014 Tucumán case involving an alleged abortion, La mujer de la fila features Natalia Oreiro in a story of a mother confronting a wrongful imprisonment, and Hernán Rosselli’s film uses a mockumentary approach to depict a family’s illegal lottery business.