Mumbai: Blancanieves, a silent film shot in black and white, will be Spain‘s entry at the 85th edition of the Oscars and at Mexico‘s Ariel awards in the non-English best film category.
Starring Maribel Verdu, Macarena Garcia and Daniel Gimenez Cacho, the film begins showing in Spanish theaters Friday after being screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival where it enjoyed great critical success.
Blancanieves, directed by Pablo Berger, beat out El artista y la modelo, by Fernando Trueba and Grupo 7, by Alberto Rodriguez, in the voting conducted online by the Spanish academy members.
Earlier, four films from Spain namely Mar adentro, Volver a empezar, Belle Epoque and Todo sobre mi madre, have won the Oscar in the best non-English-language film category.