This is what the documentaries nominated for the 2024 Oscar are about

The 96th edition of the Oscars in 2024 is just around the corner. Here we tell you about all the nominees of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

This year, the Oscar-nominated documentaries bring to the table topics worth analyzing. Regardless of whether they receive recognition or not, It is about facts that have been and are being presented to the world.

The documentaries nominated for the 2024 Oscar

The fight against dictatorship in Uganda

“People Power, Our Power” is a political movement in Uganda led by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known by his stage name Bobi Wine. And that’s what it’s all aboutBobi Wine: The People’s President‘.

Bobi Wine is a singer, actor and businessman who has used his music to drive an entire political and cultural movement against the dictatorship of President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power under an authoritarian regime since 1996.

It was in April 2017 when Bobi Wine launched his candidacy for Parliament in the by-election as an independent. And this is where the interesting thing begins: The campaign was carried out door to door, singing, connecting with people and directed against the dictatorship, so that victory finally came with impressive strength.

With increasing fame, he announced in June 2019 that he would run as a presidential candidate in the 2021 Ugandan general election. In July 2020, he announced that he would join the National Unity Platform party, but shortly after his nomination, Bobi Wine He was arrested by the army with impressive force.

After a multitude of obstacles and repressive measures against their movement, Ultimately he “lost” the election with 35% of the vote going his way.. Current dictator Museveni was re-elected with 58% of the vote.

Click here to see the full documentation. This illustrates the extent of his election campaign, and not just on a political level. It is a 2022 Ugandan, British and American documentary film. Written and directed by Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, it has a more than deserved place among the 2024 Oscar-nominated documentaries.

Love transcends time and… memory?

Love, memory, sadness… the story of life. Surely we have all seen the classic stories about eternal and eternal love, where the protagonists fight against everything to be together.

But what happens when one partner in a couple eventually forgets the other? And furthermore… how is this process experienced? How do you experience grief when you see your partner forgetting you? And most importantly: what comes next?

Infinite Memory, a Chilean documentary, tells the story of actress Paulina Urritia and journalist Augusto Góngora, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 62.

Love, patience, grief and care for others come together in this documentary that reminds us that at some point we all need to do a memory exercise to remember who we are and the people around us. It doesn’t matter that we have her by our side every day.

One day in the morning, Augusto wakes up, turns to the side and asks: “And who are you?” “I’m Pauli,” she answers. He then reminds him that he is Augusto Góngora and undertakes a memory exercise so that he remembers who he was. Augustus died in May 2023.

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2023, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. The script and direction was by Maite Alberdi. It is available on the Netflix platform.

Real-life horror with an experimental twist

Olfa Hamrouni is a woman from Tunisia who has four daughters. One day his two eldest daughters (Rahma and Ghofrane Chikhaoui) disappear after they became radicalized and joined the terrorist organization Islamic State in Libya…”the wolf ate her“.

In a patriarchal context of violence against women and oppression, Olfa publicly raised her voice to denounce that the Tunisian authorities had done nothing to prevent her daughters from leaving the country, and it is even said that they had done so to her forbidden to leave the country to search for them.

And how do you tell such a crude story that is shockingly common? The film director Kaouther Ben Hania introduced professional actresses into the fragmented family to “replace” the lack of the two eldest daughters.

Olfa and her two young daughters teach them how to be Rahma and Ghofrane, telling them what they were like, how they spoke, what they did, what their quirks and customs were.

“The Four Daughters” or “Olaf’s Daughters” It opens wounds, catalyzes a duel, accompanies, denounces, remembers, honors and describes the horror that is experienced every day. “You really remind me of her“says one of the younger sisters through tears.

The experimental documentary was released in 2023 and was directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, also a Tunisian filmmaker, also a woman.

Resilience, fight for justice, for blood and for life

Ranjit is a farmer from Jharkhand, India. whose 13-year-old daughter was brutally raped. They told her that they would kill her if she told anyone, but her father would not have it, even when they threatened to kill him. His mother is also a mainstay in the fight, but she is a woman in a deeply sexist context.

In a country where even if a woman is raped, she must marry her attacker What must be done to achieve justice? and not just for her, but for all abused women.

“When I think about my daughter, the fear disappearssays Ranjit as he traverses sky, sea and land with few resources so that those responsible are punished.

This young woman’s family is fighting not only against the authorities to demand justice, but also against people who believe that those responsible have only committed “a crime.”Mistake” for which they should not be punished, against those who threaten to kill the father, against a huge tiger… frightening.

“To kill a tiger” is a 2022 Canadian film directed by Nisha Pahuja, an author who moved from India to Canada with her family as a child in the early 1970s.

Telling war stories in the middle of war

One of the rawest Oscar-nominated documentaries we’ve ever seen. Although Russia stated it would not do so at the United Nations, it began invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

More than 700 days have passed since then, but the bullets have not stopped … How many stories are there, framed by the sound of anti-missile sirens? Watching this documentary is definitely not easy, not at all.

A group of Ukrainian AP journalists were stranded in Mariupol after the Russian army invaded. During all this time, photojournalist Mstyslav Chernov mainly documents what it means to document a war but without playing the main role.

“20 days in Mariupol” It is a testimony in the journalist’s own voice, a kind of diary that shows things as they are, no matter how hard they are. Although it focuses on the horror of the victims, the lack of food, water, sleep and the way they save their dead, it does not choose the path of morbidity.

“Someone once told me that wars don’t start with explosions, but with silence.“. But not just any silence that you smell, that is in the air and that hurts, that precedes the chaos.

Although this documentary is, as mentioned, raw and painful, so is war and the decisions that lead to war.

The film was directed, recorded, written and starred by Mstyslav Chernov; the publication took place in 2023.

The Oscars 2024

Ready? The 96th edition of the Oscars in 2024 will take place on March 10.

On January 23rd, after a long wait, actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced all the nominees and here we present you the complete list.

As usual, on Blaze Trends you will find all the details of this award ceremony, which, despite its controversies over the years, is still a reference to be taken into account.