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NEW YORK -- Day-and-date distributor Film Movement has acquired rights to three foreign films: Danish comedy Adam's Apples, Australian thriller Noise and Russian drama The Island.

Apples was Denmark's 2006 Oscar entry, and the latter two screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

Anders Thomas Jensen's Apples follows an idealistic preacher whose efforts to help small-town criminals are derailed by a neo-Nazi assistant. The film, an entry at last year's Sundance, won the Audience Award at the Warsaw Film Festival in October.

Matthew Saville's Noise follows a ne'er-do-well Australian police officer assigned to a remote post after suffering tinnitus, leaving him with an incessant buzz in his ears. His difficulties are compounded when a serial killer begins to haunt his town.

Pavel Lungin's Island is a parable following a haunted Russian Orthodox monk whose behavior confuses his colleagues but enthralls those who trek to his small northern Russian island to seek out his healing and soothsaying powers.

Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein negotiated each deal for the distributor.

LONDON -- Russia named 9th Company and Hungary selected White Palms on Tuesday as their respective candidates for best foreign-language film at the 2007 Academy Awards. The first feature from director Fedor Bondarchuk, Company is based on the story of a group of Soviet soldiers abandoned to their fate by negligent officers at the end of the Russian-Afghan war of the 1980s. Bondarchuk's film beat a field of 14 to be the Russian choice, finishing just one vote ahead of Pavel Lungin's film Ostrov (Island), Vladimir Menshov, head of the Oscar committee of Russia's national film academy, told state news agency RIA Novosti.

LONDON -- Russia named 9th Company and Hungary selected White Palms on Tuesday as their respective candidates for best foreign-language film at the 2007 Academy Awards. The first feature from director Fedor Bondarchuk, Company is based on the story of a group of Soviet soldiers abandoned to their fate by negligent officers at the end of the Russian-Afghan war of the 1980s. Bondarchuk's film beat a field of 14 to be the Russian choice, finishing just one vote ahead of Pavel Lungin's film Ostrov (Island), Vladimir Menshov, head of the Oscar committee of Russia's national film academy, told state news agency RIA Novosti.