{"id":2026222,"date":"2025-09-16T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2026222"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:14:08","slug":"oscars-iran-picks-cause-of-death-unknown-as-best-international-feature-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oscars-iran-picks-cause-of-death-unknown-as-best-international-feature-submission\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars: Iran Picks \u2018Cause of Death: Unknown\u2019 as Best International Feature Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran\u2019s official selection committee has picked Ali Zarnegar<\/a>\u2019s thriller Cause of Death: Unknown to represent the country for the 2026 Oscar race in the best international feature category.<\/p>\n

The drama follows a group of strangers traveling through Iran\u2019s Lut Desert. When one of them suddenly dies in the middle of the night, emergency services refuse to send an ambulance because the cause of death hasn\u2019t been verified by a doctor. Searching the body, the men find no ID but a lot of money and are forced to confront a moral and ethical dilemma: Do they bring the body to a hospital or bury the corpse and split the cash?<\/p>\n

Cause of Death: Unknown premiered at the Shanghai Film Festival in 2023, where it won the best cinematography prize for cameraman Davood Malek Hosseini<\/a>. But the film has a low international profile and is unlikely to make the Oscar shortlist,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran\u2019s official selection committee has picked Ali Zarnegar\u2019s thriller Cause of Death: Unknown to represent the country for the 2026 Oscar race in the best international feature category. The drama follows a group of strangers traveling through Iran\u2019s Lut Desert. When one of them suddenly dies in the middle of the night, emergency services refuse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2026223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2026222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Oscars-Iran-Picks-\u2018Cause-of-Death-Unknown-as-Best-International.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}