Argentina announced today that the psycho-sexual thriller The Intruder / El prófugo, the second feature film by Natalia Meta (Death in Buenos Aires) has been selected as the country’s official submission for International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
Starring Érica Rivas (Wild Tales), Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (BPM - Beats Per Minute), Daniel Hendler (The Moneychanger) and Almodóvar regular Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother), The Intruder tells the story of Inés, who works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. While on an idyllic trip she suffers a traumatic episode that she can't recover from. She has trouble sleeping and experiences very vivid nightmares as strange sounds begin to emerge from inside her. Awake, Inés feels suddenly surrounded by people that seem to come from her dreams.
Hailed as a “smart and stylish supernatural story about making peace with inner demons by learning to confront them head-on” (Eric Kohn, IndieWire), the film had its world premiere in the official competition at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020, and has played at numerous international film festivals including San Sebastian, Vienna, BFI London, and Zurich.
Argentina is the only Latin American country to have won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly known as Best Foreign-Language Film) twice, in 1986 for The Official Story by Luis Puenzo, and in 2010 for The Secret in Their Eyes by Juan José Campanella.
