Watch Ploning Movie Online

Watch Ploning Movie Online - Ploning was once controversial because it's our country's entry for Oscars.Now lets see why this movie became our entry -notwithstanding the fact that it didn't make it through Oscars.
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Ploning, is a story of one mans search for the enigmatic woman who has deeply wounded him in the past. Having grown up in an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel, Rodrigo (30 years old) returns to the beautiful island of Cuyo and is given from sunrise to sunset to look for his Ploning. In his search, he discovers that the woman he loved and adored as a boy is not the woman he thought he knew. Ploning has displayed her maternal love for Digo ( the 6-year old Rodrigo) but is shrouded in her mysterious love and devotion for Tomas, her childhood sweetheart who left her when she was 16. This 30-year-old spinster who has held a special place amongst the people as a dutiful daughter, a devoted friend, a caring sister and a loving maternal figure is slowly unveiled through Rodrigos memory and an emotional meeting with Plonings confidante, Seling. Through his search, Ploning will be revealed as the islands most bittersweet source of selfless love.

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Oscars 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Shortlist Nominees

[starttext]Another year for aspiring movie makers worldwide.The 2010 Oscars is yet to come.But the Oscars 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Shortlist Nominees was already announced.Who will win the best foreign film?Coming from a filipino, Its so sad that Ded na Si Lolo just like Ploning, did not make it to the short list.Well maybe perhaps another year!!

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released a shortlist of nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film category which consisted of nine outstanding films from the sixty-five qualified films submitted last year.

Oscars 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Shortlist Nominees

Nine movies will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards. The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

• Argentina, El Secreto de Sus Ojos byJuan Jose Campanella
• Australia, Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton
• Bulgaria, The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner by Stephan Komandarev
• France, Un Prophete by Jacques Audiard
• Germany, The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke
• Israel, Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
• Kazakhstan, Kelin by Ermek Tursunov
• The Netherlands, Winter in Wartime by Martin Koolhoven
• Peru, The Milk of Sorrow by Claudia Llosa

Foreign Language Film nominations for 2009 are again being determined in two phases. The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based members, screened the 65 eligible films between mid-October and January 16. The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’sForeign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist. The shortlist will be winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles. They will spend Friday, January 29, through Sunday, January 31, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.

Want to know who wins the Oscars 2010 Best Foreign Language Film category? 

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre.[endtext]