For the 22nd consecutive year, CAFILM presents a selection of Oscar® submissions from around the world. This year, 86 countries submitted films for consideration in the 2026 Academy Awards® Best International Feature Film category.
This series offers the rare opportunity to see all 15 of the shortlisted films in this category, many of which are top film festival prize winners… which do you think will take home the Oscar®?
SOUTH KOREA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM • 2026 ACADEMY AWARDS®
A withering corporate satire forms the backbone of Park Chan-wook’s new film which is replete with the bravura set pieces for which he’s known. Man-soo (Korean superstar Lee Byung-hun) has it all—great job, wife, two kids, two dogs—until the paper corporation he works for lays him off. When a new job doesn’t manifest after several months and his fantastic life begins to crumble, he arrives at a radical solution to beat the competition.
Cue the elegantly devised macabre sequences that Park is known for in films like Oldboy (2003) and Decision to Leave(2022). The difference here is comedic: Unlike some of the filmmaker’s other protagonists, Man-soo is no natural-born killer, just an ambitious businessman willing to do whatever it takes—no matter how extreme—to reclaim his comfortable life. Adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Ax, No Other Choice builds to a conclusion that is chillingly of the present moment. —Rod Armstrong
Director: Jeremy Workman (US 2024) 139 min.
In Korean and English with English subtitles
Rated R for violence, language and some sexual content
MVFF48 OFFICIAL SELECTION
SOUTH KOREA’S OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE • 98TH ACADEMY AWARDS
TUESDAY, JAN 13 • 4:00
$14.50 General | $11 Seniors + Youth & Matinées | $10 CAFILM members