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‘Emilia Pérez’ And ‘I’m Still Here’ Lead The Female-Fronted Favorites For Best International Feature Of 2024

'Emilia Pérez' and 'I'm Still Here' lead the female-fronted favorites for Best International Feature of 2024.

Two more Cannes titles look set to make the cut, notably Germany’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, filmed undercover in Iran against the backdrop of the rebellious Woman, Life, Freedom movement and smuggled out by its dissident director shortly before he left the country for good. Then there’s Jacques Audiard’s avant-garde musical Emilia Pérez — filmed in Paris but set in Mexico — which stars Spanish-born trans actress Karla Sofía Gascón in a dual role, playing a fearsome Mexican cartel leader who fakes their own death in order to give up the gangster life and start over again as a woman. Gascón has a chance to make that elite club three, but she will have stiff competition from Fernanda Torres, who plays the lead in Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, which won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival this year and is representing Brazil in the international category.

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