On December 17th of this year, the Oscars’ International Feature Award shortlist will be revealed. Nominations will be announced a month later in January, and the Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 2nd. In the time before, countries worldwide have announced their selections to run for the award. Per Variety, Argentina has chosen to back Kill the Jockey as their nation’s competitor in the Oscar race.

Following Spain’s selection of Saturn Return for the Oscar race, Luis Ortega’s “equestrian-themed surreal comedy-thriller” Kill the Jockey joins a host of other features including Egypt’s Flight 404, Palestine’s From Ground Zero, and Iraq’s short-turned-feature Baghdad Messi in the race for Best International Feature.

With Protagonist Pictures handling international sales, the film stars Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as a jockey who must walk away from his sport after a gruesome accident on the track. Biscayart is best known for his role in BPM (Beats per Minute), a film that earned him both César and Lumières Awards. In Kill the Jockey, Biscayart’s character Remo Manfredini has his masculinity challenged by the accident and must navigate Buenos Aires while evading the mobster to whom he is in debt.

El Despacho (Ortega and Esteban Perroud’s production team) produced the film alongside Rei Pictures (Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli and Matías Roveda), Infinity Hill (Axel Kuschevatzky and Cindy Teperman), and Warner Pictures Entertainment (Charlie Cohen and Exile’s Nando Vila and Paz Lázaro). Benecia Del Toro is also listed as an executive producer.

The mob boss Sirena, is played by Daniel Gimenez Cacho. Úrsula Corberó is also set to star.

Additional entries for Best International Feature include:

• Egypt: Flight 404
• Israel: Come Closer
• Algeria: Algiers
• Palestine: From Ground Zero
• Turkey: Life
• Iraq: Baghdad Messi
• Nepal: Shambala
• Kenya: Nawi
• Senegal: Dahomey
• Georgia: The Antique
• Belgium: Julie Keeps Quiet
• Hungary: Semmelweis
• Czech Republic: Waves
• Cambodia: Meeting With Pol Pot
• Morocco: Everybody Loves Touda
• South Korea: 12.12.: The Day
• Japan: The Cloud
• Kyrgyzstan: Heaven Is Beneath Mother’s Feet
• Germany: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Lithuania: Drowning Dry
• Uruguay: Hay una puerta ahí
• Taiwan: Old Fox
• Latvia: Flow
• Austria: The Devil’s Bath
• Ireland: Kneecap