Sweden has selected Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film category of the 98th Academy Awards.

The political thriller, starring Fares Fares, Lyna Khoudri and Zineb Triki, is set in the powerful and glamorous Egyptian film industry, where the brightest shining star is drawn into the vicious undercurrent of deceit, corruption, and propaganda.

Eagles of the Republic world premiered in competition at the Cannes film festival in May and will screen in the Centrepiece section of the 50th edition of Toronto International Film Festival in September.

It will also be the opening film of Sweden’s Stockholm International Film Festival in November. SF Studios will distribute the film across Nordic territories with theatrical release s

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