Now that the dust has lowered and The majority of film festivals that are influential on the Oscars raceAs Sundance, Cannes and Venice, has already occurred, countries around the world are completed which film They will submit to represent them in Best international functional category.
While the films do not have to be in the official language of the submission country, they cannot be in English for a majority of the film, nor may they have been produced in the United States.
The most controversial part of the submission process is that the films must have been chosen by a national organization, jury or committee consisting of people from the film industry. In practice, it has led to the government’s involvement in the selection process, which means that award -winning Iranian films such as “No bears” and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” or acclaimed Indian films such as “All We Imagage As Light” and “RRR”, for example, are overlooked in favor of films that are more tasty to officials than for the officials than for the officials than for the officials than for the seniority.
Last year, There were 89 posts for best international feature. The countries have until Wednesday, October 1, 2025 to make their posts. Preliminary voting for Best international featureLike nine other categories, will occur from December 8 to 12. The following week, on December 16, the academy will announce its Oscar Card lists and voters will later choose the five best nominated international features from a list of the 15 submissions that received the most votes. Oscar nominations 2026 will be announced on January 22 and the 96th Academy Awards will occur on Sunday, March 15, 2026.
See the entire list of 2026 submissions for the best international function category below, organized alphabetically and updated regularly when more choices are made.
Armenia: “My Armenian Phantom” (Tamara Stepanyan)
Austria: “Peacock” (Bernhard Wenger)
Azerbaijan: “Tghiyev: Oil” (Zaur Gasimli)
Belgium: “Young Mothers” (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: “Blum: Masters of the Own Destiny” (Jasmila Žbanić)
Brazil: “The Secret Agent” (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Bulgaria: “Tarika” (Milko Lazarov)
Cambodia: “Tenement” (Inrasothytheth Neth and Sokyou Chea)
Canada: “The things you kill” (Alireza Khatami)
Chile: “The mysterious gaze from Flamingo” (Diego Céspedes)
Colombia: “a poet” (Simón Soto Table)
Costa Rica: “The altar boy, the priest and the gardener” (Juan Manuel Fernández)
Croatia: “Fiume o Morte!” (Igor Bezinović)
Czech Republic: “I’m not all I want to be” (Klára Tasovská)
Denmark: “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” (David Borenstein)
Dominican Republic: “Pepe” (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias)
Ecuador: “Chuzalongo” (Diego Ortuño)
Egypt: “Happy Birthday” (Sarah Goher)
Estonia: “Rolling Papers” (Meel Paliale)
Finland: “100 liters of gold” (Teemu Nikki)
France: “It was just an accident” (Jafar Panahi)
Georgia: “Panopotent” (George Silasarulipe)
Germany: “Sound of Falling” (Mascha Schilinski)
Hungary: “Orphan” (László Nemes)
Iceland: “Love that remains” (Hlynur Pálmason)
India: “HomeBound” (Neejaj Ghaywan)
Indonesia: “Sore: Wife from the Future” (Yandy Laurens)
Iran: “Cause of Death: Unknown” (Ali Zarnegar)
Iraq: “President’s cake” (Hasan Hadi)
Ireland: “Sanatorium” (Gar O’Rourke)
Israel: “The Sea” (Shai Carmeli Pollak)
Japan: “Kokuho” (Lee Sang -il)
Jordan: “all that is left of you” (Cherien Dabis)
Komdads: Del Oleview (Turkmen Akhtan Qupatis)
Latvia: “God’s dog” (Lauris ābele and Raitis āblele)
Lithuania: Southern Chronicles (Ignas Miškinis)
Montenegro: “The Tower of Strength” (Nikola Vukčević)
Morocco: “Calle Málaga” (Maryam Touzani)
Nepal: “Anjila” (Milan Chams)
The Netherlands: “Reedland” (Sven Bresser)
North Macedonia: “The Tale of Silyan” (Tamara Kotevska)
Norway: “Sentimental Value” (Joachim Trier)
Palestine: “Palestine 36” (Annemarie Jacir)
Panama: “Beloved Tropic” (Ana Endara)
Papua New Guinea: “Fad Open” (BijuCuumar Damodan)
Paraguay: “Under the flags, the sun” (Juanjo Pereira)
Peru: “Motherland” (Marco Panatonic)
Philippines: “Magellan” (LAV Diaz)
Poland: “Franz” (Agnieszka Holland)
Portugal: “Banzo” (Margarida Cardoso)
Romania: “Traffic” (Teodora Mihai)
Singapore: “Stranger Eyes” (Yeo Siew Hua)
Slovakia: “Father” (Tereza Nvotová)
Slovenia: “Little Trouble Girls” (Urška Djukić)
South Korea: “No other choice” (Park Chan-Wook)
Spain: “Sirāt”
Sweden: “Eagles of the Republic” (Tarik Saleh)
Switzerland: “Late Shift” (Petra Volpe)
Taiwan: “Left-Hand Girl” (Shih-Cheding Tsou)
Thailand: “A useful ghost”
Tunisia: “Hind Rajab’s voice” (Kaouther Ben Hania)
Turkey: “One of the days when Hemme dies” (Murat Fıratoğlu)
Ukraine: “2000 meters to Andriivka” (mstyslav Chernov)
Uruguay: “Don’t Releasing You” (Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge)
