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Bill Murray plays a father in the comedy On the Rocks directed by Sofia Coppola.   In 1998 he told the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press how he gave up on his premed studies to join his older brother Brian at Second City’s improvisation comedy troupe in Chicago.

Life, death and everything in between and beyond. These are the themes of This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, a film from Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, an African filmmaker and visual artist, who was born in Hlotse, a market town in Lesotho, and now lives in Berlin.

Show Me What You Got, Svetlana Cvetko's directorial debut, tells the story of three late twentysomethings and their playful forming of a ménage à trois, in a sensual scenario reminiscent of the French New Wave, like Jules et Jim. Filmed in black-and-white in Los Angeles (and partly in Italy), each character is seen at a moment of transition.

When the director of True Mothers, Naomi Kawase, read the book Asa ga Kuru/ 朝が来るby Mizuki Tsujimura, she felt something within her say “this is a story meant for me”. True Mothers is a story about a young couple, Satoko and Kiyokazu.

Meet Sayuri (Yoshiko Sengen), a winsome and bright-eyed part-time waitress working at a small Tokyo coffee-shop, “Extra”. She has a secret.

Carlos Sorin’s Notes for My Son details in almost documentary fashion the last days of a terminal cancer patient who has been told that her treatments are no longer effective. Unlike recent Hollywood movies on the subject, it does not sugarcoat the experience but also it keeps the viewer from turning away thanks to the remarkable performance of Valeria Bertuccelli who plays the victim, Maria Valdez.

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Romance in gorgeous scenery - In Wild Mountain Thyme Jamie Dornan plays a farmer who remains oblivious to his next-door neighbor played by Emily Blunt. Dornan tells HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser how it was to film in Ireland.

The fable of “La Llorona” – the weeping woman – of a mother who drowns her children after her husband betrays her, has often ignited the imagination of artists, and Jayro Bustamante is no exception. But in the version of this Guatemalan director in his eponymous film, the legend takes on a new dimension.

Edoardo Ponti once again directs his mother – none other than Sophia Loren – in the Netflix feature film The Life Ahead, based on French novelist Romain Gary's novel, and adapted for the screen by Ponti with Italian screenwriter Ugo Chiti. Set in present-day Bari, Italy, the movie tells the story of Madame Rosa (Loren), a tough-as-nails lady who takes in young refugees from Africa as foster children.