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Dave McNary Film Reporter“Waikiki” and “Hawaiian Soul” won the Made in Hawai’i awards at the the 40th edition of the Hawai’i International Film Festival.The awards were announced at a virtual gala held Sunday.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIn 1968, idealistic Italian engineer Giorgio Rosa founded an independent micro nation on a tiny island he built on a platform supported by steel pylons off the coast of Rimini, Italy, outside Italian territorial waters.

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Italy has picked Notturno, an observational documentary by director Gianfranco Rosi (Fire at Sea) to be its 2021 Oscar contender in the best international feature category. Rosi shot Notturno over three years across Lebanon, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Syria.

Naman Ramachandran The Irish Film and Television Academy has selected Tom Sullivan’s Irish-language feature “Arracht” as Ireland’s entry for the 2021 Oscars’ best international feature film category.The film is set in 1845 on the eve of the Irish famine. Fisherman Colmán Sharkey takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKaouther Ben Hania’s “The Man Who Sold His Skin” will represent Tunisia in the Oscar race for best international feature film.The movie world premiered at Venice where it won the best actor award for Yahya Mahayni.

Kris Ajer will be fit to face Hibs on Saturday despite a confusion over his injury status. A message went out on Celtic's Twitter feed earlier where the big Norwegian and his fellow 'Chris' were confused as Neil Lennon gave an injury update.

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Jake Kanter International TV EditorWelcome to International Insider, I’m Jake Kanter. Here’s your weekly recap on all the global TV and film news you need to know this week.

France is sending Filippo Meneghetti’s feature debut Two of Us starring Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier into the Oscar race. The drama, about two retired women who have secretly been lovers for decades, is France's entry for the 2021 Academy Awards in the international feature film category.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorFrance’s Oscar selection committee has chosen comedy/drama Two Of Us as its submission to the International Feature Film category at the 2021 Academy Awards. From director Filippo Meneghetti, the feature debut world premiered in the Discovery section of Toronto last year and was released in France in early 2020 via Sophie Dulac Distribution.

Denmark has selected Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round, starring Mads Mikkelsen, to represent the country at next year's Oscar race in the international feature film category. Mikkelsen stars alongside Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang as four high school teachers stuck in a midlife funk who decide to embark on a drinking experiment.

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Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: In what marks another A-list talent headed to Netflix, sources tell Deadline Judd Apatow has set his next comedy at Netflix. Apatow will direct and produce the untitled comedy and co-write the script with Pam Brady.

Indonesia has picked Joko Anwar's gory but stylish horror film Impetigore to represent the country in the 2021 Oscar race in the international feature category. The selection was unveiled earlier this week by the Indonesian Academy Awards Selection Committee, and promoted by Anwar on Twitter.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorFrance’s Oscar selection committee today set a shortlist of five films that are in contention to be the country’s official submission to the International Feature Film category at the 2021 Academy Awards.

Naman Ramachandran The Kenya Film Commission has selected “The Letter” as the country’s official entry for the Oscars’ best international film category.“Filmed with a gentle pace and incredible closeness, ‘The Letter’ is an intimate family portrait that reveals an indestructible female power,” read promotional materials from the org.A Kenyan family drama of Shakespearean proportions, “The Letter” is a tribute to the fearless spirit of 94-year-old Margaret Kamango.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorNorway has selected Maria Sodhal’s Hope as its submission to the International Feature Film Oscar race. The drama world premiered in the Discovery section of the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and was screened in Panorama at Berlin this year.