For the 21st consecutive year, CAFILM presents a selection of Oscar® submissions from around the world. This year, 85 countries submitted films for consideration in the 2025 Academy Awards® Best International Feature Film category.
For Your Consideration is a rare opportunity to see all 15 of the shortlisted films in this category, many of which are top film festival prize winners… which do you think will take home the Oscar®?
CANADA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM • 2025 ACADEMY AWARDS®
“Pure cinematic bliss”
– Next Best Picture
“A strange odyssey with plenty of riches”
– The Wrap
“Bizarre and enchanting”
– Hollywood Reporter
In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways.
Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother. Space, time and personal identities crossfade, interweave and echo into a surreal comedy of misdirection.
In Persian and French with English subtitles
Director Matthew Rankin (Canada 2024) 89 min.
WEDNESDAY, JAN 22 • 7:30
$14. General | $10.50 Seniors & Youth | $8.50 CAFILM members