The Iranian Canadian filmmaker Alireza Khatami Thriller Psychological, inspired by his own family trauma, is the submission of Canada for consideration in the Academy Awards. Just expect your relatives not to see the movie.
Telefilm Canada announced Tuesday that The things you kill It will be presented as the entrance of Canada to the best international function. Earlier this year, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Dramatic Dramatic Cinema, and is scheduled for the theatrical launch next month.
Khatami, Toronto professor, said he finds the discouraging perspective.
“I don’t think it’s natural for someone to go in front of an audience and say: ‘Hey, this is my guts. Here are a can of worms that I want to open that nobody has seen,” he said in a video call.
“It is based on reality to the point that I am afraid to show this to my family.”
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The Turkish language follows a university professor named Ali who has to accept his mother’s suspicious death while dealing with his own role in his family.
Although the thriller has surreal elements, Khatami said that it comes from long -standing family trauma that spent years reaching an agreement and forming fiction.
“The self -fiction for me is domesticating your experience to fit on this rectangular silver screen of the cinema,” he said. So my work has been mainly not to invent something, but prune it and cut it. “
Khatami said he had to balance the artistic process by protecting his family from too much exhibition. He has done it without arguing with them, he said.
Khatami, who was born in Khamseh’s indigenous tribe in Iran, said his family does not know what is in the film, and will not ask them to see him.
“I hope you don’t see the movie. It will not be easy for them to watch the movie. They have been great support in my life, and they understand what I am doing, and I do not hope you see my movies,” he said. “My family has not seen my previous films either.”
They don’t think about him as a filmmaker, he said. They think of him as a child.
The film is a co -production from Türkiye, France, Poland and Canada.
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Khatami is an associated professor at the Image Arts Department at the Metropolitan University of Toronto. Your first characteristic, Verses of oblivionHe premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2017, where he won the best script.
To decide which film wins the best international feature film, each country chooses a film to undergo the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences. Then they are reduced to a short list, which in turn is reduced to the five final nominees.
Last year, Canada introduced Matthew Rankin’s Universal Languagethat was preselected but not nominated.
The short list of 15 films will be announced in December, followed by nominations in January. The 2026 Academy Awards are scheduled for March 15.
