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 set fro the fall of 2025.
Eagles of the Republic is the third and final film in Tarik Saleh’s Cairo trilogy after successful The Nile Hilton Incident (Grand Jury Prize award, Sundance 2017) and Cairo Conspiracy (aka Boy from Heaven), which won Best Screenplay in Cannes in 2022.
The film, written and directed by Saleh, was shot in Istanbul last spring and summer and wrapped up in Gothenburg.
”We are honored to have been selected to represent Sweden in such a strong year for Swedish film. Our journey only just started but it will be extra fun to screen the film in Toronto with this recognition”, says Saleh.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will announce 2026 nominations on January 22 2026, and the 98th Academy Awards that will be held in Los Angeles on March 15.
