Italy on Tuesday put up Gianfranco Rosi’s ‘Notturno’ for the best foreign film Oscar.
The shortlist of 10 films will be announced by the Academy on February 9 next year.
The five nominees will be announced on March 15, and the Oscar ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on April 25.
‘Notturno’ (Nocturne) by the 56-year-old documentarian Rosi, shot over the course of three years in Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon, looks at ordinary people in Middle Eastern war zones as they struggle and hope for more peaceful lives.