Oscars 2027: All the Arab films submitted for Best International Feature

Eight Arab regions have submitted films to represent them in the Best International Feature Film category at the 2027 Academy Awards. The films explore a range of topics, including Algeria's civil conflict, Lebanon's financial crisis, Iraq's battle against ISIS, Morocco's seasonal workers in Spain, and the war in Gaza. The Academy's submission deadline of September 30 has passed, with the shortlist to be announced on December 15 and the final five nominees on January 21.

Tunisia's Kaouther Ben Hania film, The Voice of Hind Rajab, narrowly missed out on reaching the final five, becoming the only 2026 shortlisted film to do so. Among the 2027 submissions are Lebanon's Rami Kodeih's Furies, a heist thriller inspired by Lebanon's banking crisis; Saudi Arabia's Anas Ba Tahaf's A Matter of Life and Death, a romance-drama about mortality; Algeria's Yanis Koussim's Roqia, a horror film rooted in the country's violence during the 1990s; Iraq's Halkawt Mustafa's No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman, an action drama about a sniper seeking her missing sister; Morocco's Laila Marrakchi's La Mas Dulce, a story of two Moroccan women working as seasonal strawberry pickers in Spain; and Palestine's Ahmed Hassouna's documentary Citizen Osama, following a photographer turned war documentarian in northern Gaza.