The Home of Dark Butterflies is Finland’s nominee for Foreign-Language Film Oscar

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A jury comprising Finnish professionals from the movie-making field has chosen Dome Karukoski’s full-length feature Tummien perhosten koti ("The Home of Dark Butterflies") to be put up as Finland's candidate for the Best Foreign-Language Film category at the 2009 Academy Awards.
      The film is set in a reform school for boys on an island. It has been produced by Markus Selin’s Solar Films, and it is based on Leena Lander’s novel of the same name from 1991.
     
According to the jury, The Home of Dark Butterflies is "a thoroughly credible and coherent film, which represents broad mastery of cinematic narration”.
      The jury made its choice among those films which have been premiered since October 1st 2007 or which will have their first performance by the end of the current month. Karukoski's film opened in Finnish cinemas in January of this year.
      Other Finnish films competing for the nomination were Petri Kotwica’s Musta jää ("Black Ice"), Lauri Törhönen’s Raja 1918, Aku Louhimies’s Käsky ("Tears of April"), and Mari Rantasila’s Risto Räppääjä.
     
The US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which organises the annual presentation of the Oscars, will announce the final nominations on January 22nd, 2009.
      The 81st Annual Academy Awards gala will be held on February 22nd.
      In 2003, Aki Kaurismäki's Mies vailla menneisyyttä ("The Man Without a Past") was among the five movies nominated by the Academy for the Best Foreign-Language Film award.


Previously in HS International Edition:
  Aki Kaurismäki film to be put up for Oscar run (21.9.2006)

Links:
  Dome Karukoski (Internet Movie Database)
  Solar Films: The Home of Dark Butterflies chosen as Finnish Oscar entry
  81st Academy Awards

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