The British Unbiased Movie Awards (Bifas) has unveiled the documentary and worldwide movie longlists for its 2024 ceremony, with movies together with in-videogame title Grand Theft Hamlet and Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora.
Grand Theft Hamlet is on the 12-strong finest function documentary listing. The movie is the debut function from directorial duo Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane; it premiered at SXSW this yr and was just lately acquired for a UK-Eire theatrical launch. It follows two struggling actors who discover solace from lockdown isolation by staging William Shakespeare’s Hamlet within the on-line Grand Theft Auto recreation.
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Additionally on the documentary listing is Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui’s Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, documenting the lifetime of the late US actor and incapacity rights activist. Additional particular person profile movies embody Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge Of Every part, and Clair Titley’s The Contestant, a couple of Japanese actuality TV star left bare in a room for greater than a yr.
Baker’s Anora will look so as to add Bifa worldwide impartial movie success to its increasing awards cupboard, after successful Cannes’ prime prize in Might and ending third within the Toronto Individuals’s Selection award.
It’s one in every of 15 titles on the worldwide listing, alongside Payal Kapadia’s All We Think about As Gentle, which seems to be to have missed out on choice as an Oscar worldwide function entry; and Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, which is representing Germany within the Oscars race.
Additional titles embody Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera starring two-time Bifa finest actor winner Josh O’Connor; and No Different Land, the documentary in regards to the destruction of the occupied West Financial institution by Israeli troopers, that gained the documentary award in Berlin.
Bifa longlists for breakthrough efficiency and new expertise filmmakers had been printed final week, with the Raindance Maverick listing arriving tomorrow.
The ultimate 5 nominations in every class might be unveiled on Thursday, November 5; with the winners introduced on the Bifa ceremony on Sunday, December 8 on the Camden Roundhouse in London.
Final yr’s documentary and worldwide awards went to If The Streets Had been On Fireplace and Anatomy Of A Fall respectively.
Bifa 2024 documentary, worldwide longlists
Documentary
The Contestant, dir. Clair Titley
Copa 71, dirs. Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine
The Cranes Name, dir. Laura Warner
The Flight Of Bryan, dir. James Erskine
Grand Theft Hamlet, dirs. Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane
Made In England: The Movies Of Powell And Pressburger, dir. David Hinton
Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge Of Every part, dir. Sam Blair
Strike: An Uncivil Battle, dir. Daniel Gordon
Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, dirs. Ian Bonhote, Peter Ettedgui
Two Strangers Making an attempt Not To Kill Every Different, dirs. Manon Ouimet, Jacob Perlmutter
Wilding, dir. David Allen
Witches, dir. Elizabeth Sankey
Worldwide Unbiased Movie
About Dry Grasses, dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
All We Think about As Gentle, dir. Payal Kapadia
Àma Gloria, dir. Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq
Anora, dir. Sean Baker
Bye Bye Tiberias, dir. Lina Soualem
Crossing, dir. Levan Akin
A Totally different Man, dir. Aaron Schimberg
The Woman With The Needle, dir. Magnus von Horn
I’m Nonetheless Right here, dir. Walter Salles
Julie Retains Quiet, dir. Leonardo Van Dijl
La Chimera, dir. Alice Rohrwacher
No Different Land, dirs. Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
The Exceptional Life Of Ibelin, dir. Benjamin Ree
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
Sing Sing, dir. Greg Kwedar