‘La bola negra’ entra en la carrera de los Oscar con una expectación insólita y la campaña más grande de la historia del cine español

"La bola negra" has entered the Oscar race with an unprecedented expectation and the biggest campaign in Spanish cinema history. Never before has a Spanish film approached the international award season from such a privileged position as La bola negra, which the Academy of Cinema announced yesterday, Wednesday, will represent Spain in the Best International Film category.

Only The Snows of Kilimanjaro, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, and Sirât, directed by Oliver Laxe, which achieved two nominations in the previous edition of Hollywood's awards, came close to this phenomenon. Audiences who have seen the film at festivals adore it; almost all critics love it. And in North America, it will have the financial backing from the omnipotent streaming platform Netflix for its launch.

If Laxe spent weeks in the United States championing his film, the "Javis," Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, directors of "La bola negra," will not lag behind. "For us that it doesn't," they confessed to the Spanish press yesterday.