Call for Entries: 98th Academy Awards International Film Award 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 11, 2025

Entries are invited for the 98th Academy Awards International Film Award 2026. Each yr, Telefilm Canada coordinates the Pan-Canadian Selection Committee and the method to find out which Canadian movie will probably be submitted for the International Film Award competitors on the Academy Awards™.

This committee will display screen eligible movies over the approaching weeks and meet on the finish of August to vote on which movie will signify Canada on this prestigious competitors. Note that the movie submission to the Academy have to be accomplished by October 1, 2025.

Eligibility

• Be a function movies (over 40 minutes) produced outdoors the United States with a predominantly (greater than 50%) non-English dialogue observe. Accurate, legible English language subtitles are required;  
• Narrative, animation and documentary function movies are eligible; 
• Creative management of the movie was largely within the fingers of residents, residents of CANADA or people with refugee or asylum standing in CANADA. 
• Must have been launched in Canada between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025, and be first publicly exhibited for at the least seven consecutive days in a business movement image theater for the revenue of the producer and exhibitor. The seven consecutive days of the theatrical launch are required to happen in a single venue; 
• The movie have to be marketed and exploited throughout its qualifying theatrical launch in a fashion thought of regular and customary to theatrical function distribution practices. The movie needn’t have been launched within the United States. 
• Films that, in any model, obtain a nontheatrical public exhibition or distribution earlier than their qualifying theatrical launch is not going to be eligible for Academy Awards consideration. Nontheatrical public exhibition or distribution contains however isn’t restricted to:
  • Broadcast and cable tv 
  • PPV/VOD 
  • DVD distribution 
  • Inflight airline distribution 
  • Internet transmission 

Application

You might want to present the next objects in your submission. These objects will probably be used to advertise your movie whether it is chosen by the Pan-Canadian jury to signify Canada within the International Film Award competitors on the Academy Awards™. 

• Downloadable screener Link to the movie with English subtitles (Mandatory)
• Promotional nonetheless, excessive decision, 300 DPI, Horizontal, with none writing or emblem (Mandatory) 
• EPK (Mandatory)
• Tailer, if out there 
• Film Poster, if out there 
• Downloadable hyperlink to the movie trailer (Preferably with English subtitles), If out there 
• Downloadable hyperlink to a 3min excerpt of the movie, if out there

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to 98th Academy Awards International Film Award.