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Singer-songwriter Sia’s dream got fulfilled when her directorial debut, Music, was released in theaters. She co-wrote the story of a young girl on the autism disorder spectrum with author Dallas Clayton.

2000 Songs of Farida from Uzbekistan is quite a rare film that concerns itself with the little-known history of Central Asia. The story takes place during the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution of 1917 and spilled into the Russian colonies in Central Asia.

Maltese-born actress Marama Corlett, 29, stars in the upcoming series, The Watch, based on the characters from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, about a group of misfit cops in a corrupt world where crime is legalized. Corlett plays Corporal Angua, a police officer who also happens to be a werewolf.

The new documentary by Errol Morris, the acclaimed Oscar-winning director (The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S.  McNamara), is based on a memoir, Joanna Harcourt-Smith’s Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story, which was published in 2013.

Paul Bettany plays Marvel Superhero Vision in the TV series WandaVision and a gay man in the 1970s in Uncle Frank, written and directed by Alan Ball. He spoke to HFPA journalists in 2002 and 2003 about his wife Jennifer Connelly.

Latvian director Dzintars Dreibergs’ feature Blizzard of Souls.

Rosa is a 45-year-old seamstress working in the wardrobe department of a film production, currently shooting a wedding scene. Besides the pressure of her job, she’s also besieged from all sides by the demands of family members: her widowed dad, Antonio, who insists he’s moving in with her; her divorced brother Armando, who has financial problems; her sister Violeta and her young daughter Lidia who is living with a musician in Manchester and raising twin babies and doing favors for friends and neighbors.

This Chilean entry for the Golden Globes is an odd movie that defies categorization. Memo Garrido (Jorge Garcia – whom many viewers will recognize from the hit TV series.

Despite a strong tradition of film realism in Iran, Ahmad Bahrami’s The Wasteland turns an obsolete brick factory and its milieu into an allegorical tale. The secret love of Lotfollah (Ali Bagheri), the 40-year-old keeper, for Sarvar (Mahdieh Nassaj), a female worker, remains unrequited as their Kafkaesque world spirals through monotony down to its predictable demise.

Director Pete Docter’s Soul, about how a school teacher and jazz musician (voiced by Jamie Foxx) seeks to reunite his body and soul after they were accidentally separated, is exhibiting robust life in the international box office. Earning $36 million in China alone, the animated film is poised to become one of Pixar’s highest grossing movies in that huge Asian market.