Oscars 2026 International Feature Film Submissions

Klára Tasovská’s I’m Not All the things I Wish to Be has been chosen because the Czech Republic’s entry for the 2026 Academy Awards. The documentary was decided with a vote by the Czech Movie and Tv Academy. Created from personal diaries and numerous pictures of artist Libuše Jarcovjáková, the movie follows the photographer’s escape to West Berlin along with the Eighties underground motion in Czechoslovakia in addition to an unique Tokyo photoshoot.

Alireza Khatami’s The Issues You Kill is Canada’s choice. The movie premiered at this yr’s Sundance Pageant, successful the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award. The Issues You Kill follows college professor Ali (Ekin Koç), who’s haunted by the suspicious loss of life of his ailing mom. He coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü and Ercan Kesal additionally star.

Germany chosen Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling for its Greatest Worldwide Featre Movie contender on the 98^th annual Oscars. Sound of Falling facilities 4 girls separated by many years however united by trauma, who uncover the reality behind the partitions of an remoted four-sided farmstead within the Altmark area.

Iceland has chosen Hlynur Pálmason’s The Love That Stays as its candidate for the Greatest Worldwide Function Movie class within the 98th Academy Awards. The movie captures a yr within the lifetime of a household because the mother and father navigate their separation. Via each playful and heartfelt moments, it portrays the bittersweet essence of pale love and shared recollections amidst the altering seasons. It’s Pálmason’s fourth characteristic after Winter Brothers (2017), A White, White Day (2019) and Denmark-set missionary drama Godland (2022), which premiered in Cannes Un Sure Regard and went on to be shortlisted as Iceland’s candidate for 2023 Oscars.

Eire’s choice is Ukrainian-language movie Sanatorium. The movie facilities Kuyalnik Sanatorium, a big Nineteen Seventies constructing situated close to Odesa in southern Ukraine the place a small group lives regardless of a struggle raging shut by. A giant attraction to the constructing is mysterious black mud, which is alleged to remedy all kinds of illnesses from bodily disabilities to infertility.

Japan has chosen Lee Sang-il’s Kokuho, a movie set on the planet of Japanese conventional theater (“kabuki”), because the nation’s contender for Greatest Worldwide Function Movie on the 2026 Oscars. Kokuho, which implies “nationwide treasure,” follows the life and profession of a kabuki performer as he’s born right into a yakuza household and later adopted by a kabuki actor. He later dedicates his life to the stage and in the end seeks to attain recognition as a dwelling nationwide treasure. Ryo Yoshizawa, Ken Watanabe, Ryusei Yokohama, Mitsuki Takahata, Shinobu Terajima and Min Tanaka star within the movie, which premiered within the Administrators’ Fortnight part on the Cannes Movie Pageant.

Jordan’s Greatest Worldwide Function Movie entry can be Cherien Dabis’ All That’s Left Of You. The drama facilities a multi-generational Palestinian household from 1948 to current day, loosely impressed by U.S.-born Dabis’ family expertise hailing from Palestine and Jordan

Norway has chosen Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth, which received the Cannes Grand Prix in 2025. The movie stars Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning. It was shot in Oslo within the fall of 2024. The movie follows two sisters — Agnes and Nora ‚— who reunite with their estranged, charismatic father Gustav, a as soon as well-known director who proposes a task in what he hopes to be his comeback movie to stage actress Nora, who turns it down. The younger American star who takes the position provides to the already sophisticated household dynamic surrounding the movie.

Sweden has chosen Tarik Saleh’s Cannes competitors entry Eagles of the Republic as its candidate for the Greatest Worldwide Function Movie class of the 98th Academy Awards. The political thriller starring Fares Fares, Lyna Khoudri and Zineb Triki is about within the highly effective and glamorous Egyptian movie trade, the place the brightest shining star is drawn into the vicious undercurrent of deceit, corruption and propaganda. It marks the third and closing movie in Saleh’s Cairo trilogy after The Nile Hilton Incident (Grand Jury Prize award, Sundance 2017) and Cairo Conspiracy (aka Boy from Heaven), which received Greatest Screenplay in Cannes in 2022.

The Swiss Federal Workplace of Tradition chosen writer-director Petra Volpe’s Late Shift drama movie to enter into the 2026 Greatest Worldwide Function Movie race. The movie follows Leonie Benesch’s nurse Floria who works an understaffed shift on a surgical phrase, managing to take care of humanity and heat together with her sufferers.

Taiwan has chosen Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Lady as its candidate for Greatest Worldwide Function Movie on the 98th Academy Awards. The movie, directed, co-written, and produced by Tsou and co-written and edited by Oscar-winning director Sean Baker, follows a single mom (Janel Tsai) and her two daughters as they relocate to Taipei to open an evening market stall. The movie marks Tsou’s solo characteristic debut after plenty of collaborations with Baker, co-directing, co-writing and co-producing his second characteristic credit score Take-Out and collaborating on Starlet, Tangerine and The Florida Mission.

Ratchapoom Boonbucnhachoke’s A Helpful Ghost is Thailand’s submission for the 98^th Academy Awards. The movie centurs widower March, who mourns his spouse Nat. Nat handed away from mud air pollution, and her spirit returns by possessing a vacuum cleaner. The human-ghost relationship is confronted with skepticism and rejection.

Tunisia has chosen Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza-set drama The Voice of Hind Rajab as its candidate for the Greatest Worldwide Function Movie class of the 98th Academy Awards. The drama, which world premieres at this yr’s Venice Movie Pageant, reconstructs the occasions surrounding the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her 4 cousins, her aunt and uncle, and the 2 paramedics who got here to her rescue after their automobile got here below hearth as they tried to flee Gaza Metropolis in January 2024 amid Israel’s ongoing navy operation within the Gaza Strip, sparked by the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 terror assaults. Ben Hania’s final movie 4 Daughters was nominated for Greatest Documentary on the 2024 Oscars, and in 2021 her The Man Who Offered His Pores and skin was additionally nominated for Greatest Worldwide Function Movie representing Tunisia.

Turkey’s submission is Murat Firagtoğlu’s One of many Days When Hemme Dies, which premiered on the 2024 Venice Movie Pageant. The movie follows Eyüp, who works relentlessly below the blazing solar throughout a tomato harvest in southeastern Turkey, pushed by the pressing have to settle an impending debt. After a conflict together with his supervisor, he roams town searching for a radical resolution.