Prague, Sept 17 (CTK) – The Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) has selected Home Care by Slavek Horak as the Czech candidate for the Academy Award nominations in the category of the best non-English speaking film, CFTA spokeswoman Eliska Mikovcova told CTK yesterday.
Home Care was selected out of 39 Czech live-action, documentary and animated films.
The nominations for the 88th Oscars will be announced on January 14, 2016, and the Academy Awards will be presented in Los Angeles on February 28.
Mikovcova said the second most appreciated new Czech film was The Snake Brothers by Jan Prusinovsky.
Home Care won two awards at the Karlovy Vary film festival this year. It is a story of a nurse from the Moravian countryside who has many peculiar patients and who finds out one day that she, too, is a patient and needs help.
Horak said he wanted to tell a simple, emotional story from an environment that would seem exotic to the rest of the world.
Horak, 40, was assistant director of Kolya, a Czech film by Jan Sverak that won an Oscar in 1996. Horak made advertising spots and two short films that were presented at the Cannes film festival. Home Care is his first feature film.
CFTA was founded in 1995 and it has 265 members now. Its annual film award, the Czech Lion, will be presented in Prague on March 5, 2016.
