Norway has selected Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value as its entry to the best international feature film award at the 2026 Academy Awards.

The film was selected from a shortlist of three by the eight-person Norwegian Oscar Committee, ahead of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dreams and documentary Facing War .

“We have chosen a film that not only impressed us but also profoundly moved us,” said a statement from the committee, which is chaired by Kjersti Mo, CEO of the Norwegian Film Institute.

“What we are seeing is a director with the playful confidence to borrow from the great artists of film history, while always maintaining and developing his own voice, and using it to explore the many nuances of human relationships, here in particular a complex father–daught

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