Iraq has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 2005. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since.
As of 2026, Iraq has submitted fifteen films, but none of them were nominated.
Submissions The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1956. The International Feature Film Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award.
The President's Cake (2025) advanced to the December shortlists, but it was not nominated.
All the films submitted are primary in Arabic or Kurdish. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Iraq for review by the academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
Year(Ceremony) Film title used in nomination Original title Language Director Result 2005(78th) Requiem of Snow شیوەنی بەفر Kurdish 2006(79th) Dreams أحلام Arabic 2007(80th) Jani Gal ژانی گەل Kurdish 2010(83rd) Son of Babylon ابن بابل Arabic 2014(87th) Mardan Kurdish Batin Ghobadi 2015(88th) Memories on Stone بیرەوەرییەکانی سەر بەرد Shawkat Amin Korki 2016(89th) El clásico ئێل کلاسیکۆ Halkawt Mustafa 2017(90th) Reseba: The Dark Wind العاصفة السوداء Arabic, Kurdish Hussein Hassan 2018(91st) The Journey الرحلة Arabic Mohamed Al-Daradji 2021(94th) Europa أوروبا Arabic, Bulgarian, English Haider Rashid 2022(95th) The Exam ئەزموون Kurdish Shawkat Amin Korki 2023(96th) Hanging Gardens جنائن معلقة Arabic Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji 2024(97th) Baghdad Messi ميسي بغداد Arabic, Kurdish Sahim Omar Kalifa 2025(98th) The President's Cake مملكة القصب Arabic Hasan Hadi 2026(99th) No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Womanبەهەشت نابینیت ئەگەر ژن بتکوژێت Kurdish, Norwegian, Arabic, English Halkawt Mustafa
See also List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films Cinema of Iraq
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References
External links The Official Academy Awards Database The Motion Picture Credits Database IMDb Academy Awards Page