MONTREAL -- The Necessities of Life, a Quebec movie about an Inuit hunter in the early 1950s, will be Canada's bid for an Oscar in the category of best foreign-language film.
Directed by Benoit Pilon, the film follows the journey of Tivii, who is flown to a sanatorium to be treated for tuberculosis, but does not understand the language.
The film won the audience-choice award and the grand jury prize at last month's Montreal World Film Festival.
It was selected for Oscar consideration from a field of 16 films by a Telefilm Canada committee.
The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) still has a long way to go to win a coveted Academy Award.
Almost 100 countries were invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to put forward movies for the best-foreign film nod.
The short list of five nominees is set to be announced Jan. 22.
Last year's pick was Denys Arcand's Days of Darkness.
-- The Canadian Press
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