Sweden has chosen Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic as its candidate for the Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie class of the 98th Academy Awards.
The political thriller, starring Fares Fares, Lyna Khoudri and Zineb Triki, is about within the highly effective and glamorous Egyptian movie trade, the place the brightest shining star is drawn into the vicious undercurrent of deceit, corruption, and propaganda.
Eagles of the Republic world premiered in competitors on the Cannes movie pageant in Could and can display within the Centrepiece part of the fiftieth version of Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant in September.
It’s going to even be the opening movie of Sweden’s Stockholm Worldwide Movie Pageant in November. SF Studios will distribute the movie throughout Nordic territories with theatrical launch set fro the autumn of 2025.
Eagles of the Republic is the third and last movie in Tarik Saleh’s Cairo trilogy after profitable The Nile Hilton Incident (Grand Jury Prize award, Sundance 2017) and Cairo Conspiracy (aka Boy from Heaven), which gained Greatest Screenplay in Cannes in 2022.
The movie, written and directed by Saleh, was shot in Istanbul final spring and summer season and wrapped up in Gothenburg.
”We’re honored to have been chosen to symbolize Sweden in such a powerful yr for Swedish movie. Our journey solely simply began however it is going to be further enjoyable to display the movie in Toronto with this recognition”, says Saleh.
The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will announce 2026 nominations on January 22 2026, and the 98th Academy Awards that might be held in Los Angeles on March 15.
