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The Goat Horn
The Goat Horn (, translit. Koziyat rog) is a 1972 Bulgarian drama film directed by Metodi Andonov, starring Anton Gorchev and Katya Paskaleva. The film is set in 17th Century Bulgaria where Kara Ivan’s wife is raped and killed by four local Ottoman feudal masters. Having disguised his daughter as a boy, and trained her in the masculine art of warfare over a period of ten years, they set out to take revenge.
The film won a Special Prize of the Jury at the
out of the ten films were directed by women, including one by Milena Andonova, the daughter of "Goat Horn" director Melodi Andonov.
Since 2006, nine Foreign Language Film contenders are shortlisted after an initial round of AMPAS screenings. Then a selection of Academy members in New York and Los Angeles determine the final five nominees. "The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner" was among the nine films shortlisted in 2009, but it did not make the final five.
Recent films selected have covered