“The Betrayal” Makes Oscar Shortlist

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Photo courtesy of Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath

Oscar nominations won’t be officially announced until Feb. 22, but Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath’s docu-memoir The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) recently cleared the first hurdle by making the Academy’s shortlist.

The film, which follows one family’s struggles with violence in Laos and assimilation in Brooklyn, will face competition that includes Errol Morris’s digital photo analysis of Abu Ghraib, Standard Operating Procedure, Liberian civil war documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell and Man on Wire, a chronicle of a tightrope walker’s illegal 1974 stroll between the World Trade Center’s twin towers.

Check out a nice review from the film’s debut at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and the trailer for the film below.