Italy selects Paolo Strippoli The spiral (The stranger) as a candidate for the Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie award on the 99th Academy Awards.
The drama, which had its world premiere in competitors at this 12 months’s Venice Movie Pageant, stars Jasmine Trinca as a girl who arrives at her daughter’s condominium throughout a storm to admit a lie that can undermine the foundations of the household and their relationship with regards to gentle.
Trinca is joined within the forged by Romana Maggiora Vergano, Adriano Giannini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
That is Strippoli’s fourth movie after being awarded The holy boy (2025), Circulate (2022) and A traditional horror story (2021).
The movie is produced by Marina Marzotto and Mattia Oddone at Propaganda, based mostly in Rome, with Rai Cinema, in co-production with the French firm Kazak Productions, based mostly in Paris, the Belgian firm Tarantula and the Italian firm Dinamo Movie, based mostly in Bari.
01 Distribution will distribute the movie in Italy on October 18. Le Pacte manages worldwide gross sales.
The spiral was chosen from a shortlist of 21 potential candidates which additionally included two different Venice 2026 Competitors titles, that of Nanni Moretti It’ll occur tonightt and Marco Bechis Return to Buenos Airesin addition to the title Orizzonti The Monkey Home which received the award for finest screenplay and Riccardo Scamarcio, for finest actor.
The choice committee was overseen by the Italian movie guild Anica and included Giorgio Carlo Brugnoni, Cristina Comencini, Federica Lucisano, Francesco Melzi D’Eril and Nick Vivarelli, who voted for the selection.
In a word explaining their selection, they stated it was motivated by the truth that The spiral is “a brand new style movie, directed by a younger director who has just lately began his profession and who has been appreciated by the general public and nationwide and worldwide critics”.
Italy final received the Academy Award for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie in 2014 with The good magnificence by Paolo Sorrentino.