Official submission of Norway for the ‘Best International Feature Film’ 2026 Oscars

Reinsve plays Nora Borg, a successful Oslo actress of stage and television, who is estranged from her father Gustav (Skarsgard), a once-prominent filmmaker who divorced Nora’s mother when she was a child. On the heels of a French retrospective of his films, and the popularity of a recent documentary, Gustav has written a very personal film in which he wants Nora to star — even though he’s hardly seen any of her work. Nora does not want Gustav back in her life and when she declines the part, he instead offers it to an eager American starlet, Rachel (Elle Fanning). Collaborating again with frequent co-writer Eskil Vogt (now also a successful director), Trier fashions a nuanced look at both a troubled family and a dysfunctional film industry. (Gustav’s comeback project will be distributed through Netflix, and the divisive streamer is the target of a couple of the screenplay’s better barbs.) Sentimental Value uses Gustav’s semi-autobiographical project as a window into the secrets of the Borg family, which also includes Nora’s younger, more contented sister Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas). Early on, we learn that Nora and Agnes’ psychotherapist mother Sissel recently died and, because Gustav wants to make a film about his own mother, who committed suicide, Trier starts to peel back the history of depression that has haunted this family.-Screen Daily

“A layered masterpiece that “The Worst Person in the World” director Joachim Trier has been working toward for his entire career.”-IndieWire