Chile announced this morning that the period drama White on White / Blanco en blanco, the second film by Spanish-Chilean director Théo Court will be the South American country’s official submission for international feature film at the 94th Academy Awards. The film had its world premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Director in the Orizzonti competition and the Fipresci Critics Award.
Starring Alfredo Castro, White on White is set in 19th centruy Chile and follows a photographer who goes to the southern tip of Chile to capture the wedding of a powerful landowner. His client is absent, and as he waits for the wedding, which keeps getting postponed, he becomes obsessed with the young bride and her beauty.
Chile is one of the three Latin American countries that has won an Oscar for Best International Feature Film, after Sebastián Lelio’s win in 2018 for A Fantastic Woman. The South American country was also nominated in 2013 for Pablo Larraín’s No.
