An award-winning drama, which is getting some Oscar buzz is screening at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute tonight.

The Bermuda International Film Festival will show 'Winter's Bone' at 6.30pm in the TradeWinds Auditorium.

The film premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture and Best Screenplay.

It is the story of an independent 17-year-old girl from an impoverished family who takes a journey to track down her fugitive father.

A BIFF spokeswoman said the film "channels the Sopranos" and is "a combination (of) melodrama (and) quasi-documentary portrait of poor, white rural culture in the Ozarks".

"Director Debra Granik tells a clear and urgent story in her second feature film based on the book of the same name by Daniel Woodrell.

"It is straightforward and suspenseful but also surprising and subtle. Jennifer Lawrence gives a watchful, precise and quietly heroic performance as Ree and is the reason for the current Oscar chatter."

Tickets are available at the door an hour before the showing. General admission is $10; the fee is $8 for film club members.

For reservations and inquiries e-mail info@biff.bm or call 293-3456. The film is rated R as it includes drug dealing, drug use and profanity.