The Irish Film and Television Academy has chosen Ireland’s official entry for the international feature film category of the next Academy Awards .

“ Sanatorium ,” the Irish-made, Ukrainian-language documentary, is set to represent the country at the 98th Oscars, following in the footsteps of last year’s “Kneecap,” which was shortlisted, and 2003’s “The Quiet Girl,” which became the first film submitted by Ireland to be nominated.

The feature debut of Galway-born filmmaker Gar O’Rourke, “Sanatorium” takes a vivid look at at Kuyalnik Sanatorium, a large 1970s building near Odessa in southern Ukraine, where a small group searches for love, healing and happiness and where mud treatments and Soviet-era therapies continue despite a war close by. The biggest attraction is the mysterious bla

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