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Hildur Guðnadóttir has never questioned her passion for music. The Icelandic musician and composer grew up in a family of musicians and doctors.

Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, one of the pioneer figures in China’s independent filmmaking, So Long, My Son traces the lives of two families over three decades of social, political and family turmoil in China. The story takes place after China institutes its one-child policy.

Those of us who regularly attend the Mumbai Film Festival know how to deal with the shortcomings of Mumbai when making the 24-hour trip from Los Angeles. Aside from the jet lag, you steel yourself for the 95-degree heat, allow hours of lead time to battle the horrendous traffic, and then strive for a zen state of mind, because if you don’t, the sweltering, noisy, overcrowded city bursting at the seams will strain your last reserves and turn you into a gibbering wreck.

Based on a true story, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind marks the directorial debut of British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays the boy’s father and wrote the screenplay from the 2010 memoir by William Kamkwamba. It’s the contemporary story of a teenage boy living in a rural village in the African country of Malawi.

Kim Ki-taek is the patriarch of the Kim family, a clan whose members are unemployed and live poorly in their humble Seoul home, dodging precarious jobs and stealing Wi-Fi from their neighbor. His luck changes when his son gets, with questionable methods, a position as an English tutor at the house of a wealthy family: the Parks.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

Each year the Hollywood Foreign Press Association bestows the Golden Globe Award in the Foreign Language category. To qualify, a film must be a motion picture drama, musical or comedy with at least 51% of the dialogue spoken in a non-English language.

A slow weekend with no major new releases saw a familiar face return to the top of the North American chart. Joker, now in its fourth week in theaters, came in first place after having slipped below Disney’s maligned Maleficent: Mistress of Evil last session.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items - is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

The 30th New Orleans Film Festival ended with Kasi Lemmon’s new film Harriet, about Harriet Tubman, the African American Joan of Arc who lead over 700 slaves to safety on the Underground Railroad in the late 1850s and early 1860s, and whose face would be on the 20 dollar bill, if the current President had not nixed this plan as soon as he took office. Tubman is played by British singer/actress Cynthia Erivo and moviegoers will recognize cast members like Vondie Curtis-Hall, Joe Alwyn, Vanessa Bell-Calloway and others.