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M*A*S*H, Cabaret, American Graffiti among the comedies, and in Drama: The French Connection, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Chinatown, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Rocky, American Graffiti.

Bohdan Sláma’s film Ice Mother is a romantic drama about an old woman who finds love in the least expected circumstances during a cold winter. After her husband dies, Hana finds herself a 67-year-old widow who lives alone in a small town, with nothing else to wait for in her life but the weekly Sunday visit from her two argumentative and self-centered sons and their families.

Winner of the FIPRESCI award at the Thessalonik Film Festival as Best Drama, Amerika Square (Plateia Amerikis) reflects the timely issue of immigration, which has brought Europe to the brink of a humanitarian and political crisis. Directed by Yannis Sakaridis, it is the Greek entry for the Golden Globe in the Foreign Language category.

Filmed entirely in Panama, Oasis is director Jorge Ameer’s first ever film to be submitted for Golden Globe consideration. However, that doesn't mean the veteran director is new to the Hollywood scene.

Zhenya (Marina Spivak) and Boris (Alexey Rozin) can’t wait for their divorce to be finalized. They have already moved on, looking forward to their future lives, each with a new partner.

Joachim Trier’s Thelma is a supernatural horror film, but at its heart, the film is the coming-of-age story of a young girl, Thelma, who is from rural Norway and has a fundamentalist religious background. As she starts college in the capital, Oslo, she is highly uncomfortable in her own skin and has a hard time escaping the repressive ways of her religious parents.

What started as a banal insult escalates into civil unrest and riots in this edgy and unpredictable drama by Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Two men from different cultural backgrounds exchange harsh words about an inconsequential issue, which gets blown out of proportion and leads to dangerous consequences in a story that provides a profound look at the historical trauma that has shaped modern Lebanese society.

Directed by Sebastian Lelio (Gloria, Disobedience) A Fantastic Woman won the Best Screenwriting Award at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival and, since then, it has been receiving rave reviews and recognition around the world. A revolutionary film for an ultra-conservative country like Chile, the story revolves around Orlando (Francisco Reyes) a 57-year-old textile company executive with a marriage and family, and a love affair with Marina, a beautiful and much younger trans woman who works as a waitress in a restaurant.

At first glance, middle-aged Ariel Bloch (Shai Avivi) is an established, successful single businessman living an ordinary, worry-free life. One day, after many years without contact, his college girlfriend Ronit (Assi Levy) invites him to lunch.

The Warren Beatty comedy was a remake of 1939’s Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which won an Academy Award for best story and screenplay that year.