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\n\tBrazil<\/a> has chosen Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho\u2019s documentary Pictures of Ghosts<\/a><\/em> as its entry to the Best International Feature Film<\/a> class of the 2024 Academy Awards.<\/p>\n \n\tMixing archive and up to date footage, the deeply private work revisits the director\u2019s hometown of Recife by means of the cinemas he as soon as frequented.<\/p>\n \n\tThe movie world premiered as a Special Screening at Cannes<\/a> in May and has simply made its North American premiere in Toronto<\/a>, earlier than heading to New York.<\/p>\n \n\tGrasshopper Films acquired U.S. rights this summer season. Paris-based Urban gross sales handles worldwide gross sales.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Brazilian Cinema Academy chosen the movie on Tuesday from a brief record which additionally included Guto Parente\u2019s A Strange Path<\/em>, Sergio de Carvalho\u2019s Alien Nights<\/em>, Eduardo Albergaria\u2019s Nosso Sonho<\/em>, Carolina Markowicz\u2019s Toll and Claudio Borrelli\u2019s Vultures<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe choice was made by a 23-member committee, chaired by distributor and exhibitor Ilda Santiago.<\/p>\n \n\tMendon\u00e7a Filho thanked the academy for choosing the movie in a media publish, re-enacting his taking the decision on the cellphone as he stroked his cat.<\/p>\n