Norway has chosen Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth as its entry to the very best worldwide characteristic movie award on the 2026 Academy Awards.
The movie was chosen from a shortlist of three by the eight-person Norwegian Oscar Committee, forward of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Desires and documentary Going through Struggle.
“We have now chosen a movie that not solely impressed us but in addition profoundly moved us,” stated a press release from the committee, which is chaired by Kjersti Mo, CEO of the Norwegian Movie Institute.
“What we’re seeing is a director with the playful confidence to borrow from the good artists of movie historical past, whereas at all times sustaining and creating his personal voice, and utilizing it to discover the various nuances of human relationships, right here specifically a posh father–daughter relationship.”
Sentimental Worth debuted in Competitors at Cannes this 12 months, successful the Grand Prix. The movie is produced by Maria Ekerhovd for Mer Movie and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar for Eye Eye Footage, and based mostly on a screenplay by Trier and longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt.
The movie follows two sisters who reunite with their estranged father, a once-renowned director who provides one of many sisters a job in what he hopes might be his comeback movie.
Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning lead the forged.
MK2 handles worldwide gross sales; Nordisk Movie Distribution will launch the movie in Norway on September 12.
Trier’s earlier characteristic The Worst Particular person In The World was nominated for the very best worldwide characteristic Oscar in 2022.
