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I'm not sure what the cutoff date is for from the individual countries for the Foreign Language Film nominations, but Sony Pictures Classics are glad to see Canada select Denis Villeneuve's Incendies. The company now has three horses in the race and once again, places the distributor in a pretty good position to grab the most of the spots in the final five nominations.

It's another "Cannes heavy" selection this year for the 48th edition of the NYFF. With the majority of the titles coming from the Croisette (look out for some personal faves in Cristi Puiu's Aurora and Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte) and the Lido (Abdellatif Kechiche's Black Venus, Kelly Reichardt's Meek’s Cutoff, Hong Sang-soo's Oki’s Movie, Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem, Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins, Alexei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls, plus Raul Ruiz's miniseries Mysteries of Lisbon), I figure it be fun to take a closer look at the non-Cannes/Venice offerings.

A good portion of titles were unveiled for Sitges Fantastic Film Festival which will take place between the 7th of October until the 17th. The inaugural film of this year´s official ceremony and out of competition will be “Los Ojos de Julia”, the Guillermo del Toro produced film in collaboration with director Guillém Morales and actress Belén Rueda (“The Orphanage”). “Agnosia” the second film from Eugenio Mira after his debut with “The Birthday” and “14 Days with Víctor” by Román Parrado will be Spain´s representation at the competitive official section.

With less than an hour to go, here are my predictions for tonight's big winners.

Newcomer Kike Maillo shoots for Spanish production company Escándalo Films, a sci-fi drama titled Eva which tells the story of Eva, a 10 year-old little girl that suffers from amnesia after her mother perishes in a terrible accident. Alex, a talented robotic engineer will try to help her cope with her trauma by investigating robots that are capable to relate with humans. Daniel Brühl (Inglorious Basterds), Alberto Ammann and Marta Etura (who both starred in the box office hit and winner of 8 Spanish Academy awards "Celda 211") and Claudia Vega star, the script counts with the collaboration of Spanish prestigious playwright Sergi Belbel.