Denmark has chosen Magnus von Horn’s interval drama The Woman With the Needle as its nominee for Finest Worldwide Characteristic on the 2025 Oscars.
Set in Copenhagen in 1919, the function stars Vic Carmen Sonne (Vacation, Godland) as Karoline, a younger seamstress who’s left excessive and dry when her rich lover (Joachim Fjelstrup) will get her pregnant however refuses to marry her. When she finds herself unemployed and anticipating, Karoline has the selection of two unhealthy choices: Give herself an abortion with a knitting needle or work with the shady backstreet adoption company.
The Woman With the Needle premiered in competitors in Cannes and had its North American premiere on the Toronto Movie Competition earlier this month. The sturdy vital reception for the movie — THR‘s assessment referred to as it a “darkish, urgently well timed Danish drama” that “builds to a devastating climax, taut as piano wire” — in addition to the well timed subject material ought to make The Woman With the Needle a robust Worldwide Characteristic contender.
Mubi picked up the movie in a multi-territory deal out of Cannes and has rights for The Woman With the Needle throughout North America, UK-Eire, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Italy, Turkey, and India.
Denmark has lengthy punched above its weight on the Oscars, with 14 nominations and 4 Oscar wins, most lately for Thomas Vinterberg’s One other Spherical in 2021.
The deadline for submissions for the 96th Oscars is Nov. 14, 2024. The shortlist for greatest worldwide function contenders shall be introduced Dec. 17. Nominations shall be introduced Jan. 17, 2025. The 2025 Academy Awards shall be held on Sunday, March 2.
