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Oscars: Tajikistan Re-Selects ‘Melody’ For Best International Feature Film Race After Missing Deadline Last Year
Drama follows woman who teaches music at a centre for children with cancer, whose students ask her to compose a piece of music using sound of birds
It marks the second time the central Asian country has chosen the feature to represent it in the Oscar race, after it selected the drama for the 96th edition but missed the deadline for getting all the required material to the Academy. When her students ask her to compose a piece of music using the sound of 30 birds, Melody travels back to her home village to capture their birdsong turning for help to a wise old singer who knows their whereabouts. Melody is Tajikstan’s third Oscar submission to date after Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s comedy-drama Luna Papa i n 1999, which did not receive a nomination, and Iranian Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s romantic drama Sex & Philosophy in 2005, which was also disqualified after the print failed to arrive in time at the Academy.
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