Iceland has selected Hlynur Pálmason’s family drama The Love That Remains as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film category in the 98th Academy Awards .
The film captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, it portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.
It is Pálmason’s fourth feature after Winter Brothers (2017), A White, White Day (2019) and Denmark-set missionary drama Godland (2022), which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard and went on to be shortlisted as Iceland’s candidate for 2023 Oscars.
The Icelandic jury, formed by the Icelandic Film and TV Academy, consists of representatives from leading professional associati