Oscars 2025: Argentina backs 'Kill the Jockey' in international feature film race

A1 Digital India News: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart stars in this surreal comedy-thriller from Luis Ortega, a horseman who discovers his feminine side after a terrible accident.

Argentina is backing Luis Ortega's equestrian-themed surrealist comedy-thriller Kill the Jockey for inclusion in the Best International Feature category in the 2025 Oscar race.

The film, which premiered in Venice, stars BPM star Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Remo Manfredini, a troubled jockey who begins to question his changes to his masculine identity after a serious accident at the track. When he disappears from the hospital and wanders the streets of Buenos Aires, trying to figure out who he really is, he is pursued by mafia boss Sirena (Daniel Jiménez Cacho), to whom he is deeply in debt, and who wants Remo found dead or alive.

Kill the Jockey was produced by Ortega and Esteban Perroud through their production label El Despacho, along with Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Galelli and Matias Roveda of Re Pictures; Axel Kushevatzky and Cindy Tepperman of Infinity Hill; Charlie Cohen of Warner Music Entertainment and Nando Villa and Paz Lazaro of Exile. Benicio del Toro is among the executive producers.

Argentina has been nominated eight times for the Best International Feature Academy Award — most recently in 2022 for Santiago Mitre’s political drama Argentina, 1985 — and has won the Oscar twice.

The shortlist of Best International Feature contenders will be released on December 17. Nominations will be announced on January 17, 2025. The 2025 Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 2.

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