Emilia Pérez is the epic and musical tale of the life of a Mexican drug trafficker who, with the help of a lawyer, decides to change sex, thus taking the long road to redemption. This 10th feature film by director Jacques Audiard won the Jury Prize at the last Cannes International Film Festival, and allowed actresses Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz & Zoé Saldaña to win a quadruple Best Actress Award. Jacques Audiard, a regular in the Cannes competition, won the Palme d’Or in 2015 with Dheepan.
Sold internationally by The Veterans, Emilia Pérez had its North American premiere in early September at the Telluride Film Festival, in the presence of the director and its four lead actresses. It subsequently screened at TIFF.
French spectators discovered Emilia Pérez at the cinema at the end of August (followed by the Belgians and the Swiss). Netflix will release the film in theaters at the beginning of November in the United States and the United Kingdom. The film will also have a cinema career in several other countries: Germany, Spain, Greece, Mexico, Italy, Colombia.
Unifrance also congratulates Mati Diop and producers Ève Robin and Judith Lou Lévy (Les Films du Bal) for the choice of Dahomey who will represent the Senegal; Rithy Panh and producer Catherine Dussart (Catherine Dussart Production (CDP)) including Meeting with Pol Pot will represent Cambodia; and finally Nabil Ayouch, director and producer (Les Films du Nouveau Monde) of Everybody Loves Toudafor Morocco. Three films with a majority French production. Other minority French co-productions were also selected, including Seeds of the wild fig treeby Mohammad Rasoulof, for Germany.
Not all submissions for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film have been submitted yet.
