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Some seriously amazing contenders here. Looking forward to watch Dearest Sister from Laos, Foxtrot from Israel, Little Gandhi from Syria, The Divine Order from Switzerland, BPM from France...

The Academy has announced the 92 features that have been submitted for Oscar consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category:


Father and Son (2017)

Father and Son (2017)

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Father And Son is a beautifully filmed story about a single-father Moc and his 6 year-old son Ca who...


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El Inca (2016)

El Inca (2016)

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The film tells the story of real-life professional boxer Edwin Valero, undefeated two-weight world...


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Another Story of the World (2017)

Another Story of the World (2017)

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In Mosquitos, Uruguay, at a town asleep, a coronel obsessed with his garden gnomes and a mailman who...


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My Pure Land (2017)

My Pure Land (2017)

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Based on a true story, this striking drama sees a mother and her two young daughters; Nazo and...


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Black Level (2017)

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50-year anniversary is the beginning of a complicated phase in the life of a wedding photographer...


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A rich woman in Laos finds that her encroaching blindness gives her strange and frightening visions, in this bold drama from emerging talent Mattie Do.

  
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    The one and only Free Classifieds App in Laos! The best way to buy and sell around you, anytime,...

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A Great Place to Have a War by Joshua Kurlantzick is a book about the history of Laos. The synopsis caught by eye since I lived and worked in Laos for a year as an English teacher. The book is about the conflict which occurred in Laos roughly during the same period of the Vietnam War. This is an interesting and impressive book, yet depressing. Details the rise of the CIA as a war machine during the Vietnam War, which was fought to a great extent in Laos. It looks at some of people involved in building the war to epic proportions, and then withdrawing, leaving the country to collapse into yet more suffering.

This is a fascinating look at the shadow war in Laos, staged by the CIA, during the Vietnam War. It's an extremely interesting history of the how that war came to be, some of the main people involved in that war, and the rise of the CIA as an organization conducting paramilitary operations, not just spy missions. It also relates the political intrigues of the time, and the fate of Hmong who fought for Laos, and with and for America.

I learned a lot about the history of the conflict itself, and the characters on both sides of the war. This war which has been hidden in the shadows, and the author has given the people involved a chance to have their deeds, or misdeeds aired in the light of day. As with most of the little wars that occurred during the Cold War period, there is a lot of political manoeuvring which occurs in the background.