Mario Martone's Naples Mob drama
Nostalgia, Italy's candidate for next year's Oscars, has been
selected as European film of the year by the annual Capri,
Hollywood International Film Festival.
The film, which won four Silver Ribbons from Italian film
critics in June including best director, best actor, best
supporting actor, and best screenplay, stars Pierfrancesco
Favino as a Naples man who returns to his home town after 40
years in Egypt and reconnects with a childhood friend who has
become a Camorra boss.
The board of the Capri Hollywood fest, which opens the
international film fest season on December 26-January 2,
selected Nostalgia because it is a "precious and poetic work",
said honorary chair Noa, the Israeli singer who has longstanding
ties to Naples and its culture.
A shortlist of 21 candidates for the International Feature Film
Award at the 95th Academy Awards on March 12 next year will be
unveiled on December 21.
The five nominations will be announced on January 24.
The film, adapted from Ermanno Rea's 2016 novel of the same
name, will shortly be shown in New York by Italo-American actor
and director John Turturro before doing the rounds of the
pre-Oscar festivals.
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