2022 Golden Globe Awards

A film within a film, a story about a story, the meta thriller Holy Beasts follows an aging former movie star turned director (Geraldine Chaplin) who gets together with a group of fellow artists in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, to complete the unfinished project of their friend, the real-life B-movie filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge, who was murdered by three teenagers in 2000 at the age of 53.     Written and directed by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán (Cochochi, Sand Dollars), with a running time of 90 minutes and acted in Spanish and English, the film was shot at the island's Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios and on the plush Casa de Campo Resort.

Commitment Hasan is the second film in the ’Commitment Trilogy’, from director Semih Kaplanoglu. The first film of the trilogy was, Commitment Asli, which was Turkey’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards in 2019.

The psychological thriller Knocking is Swedish director Frida Kempff’s first feature film. The script is written by Emma Broström and is based on a novel by Johan Theorin.

Brighton 4th is the latest offering from Georgian filmmaker Levan Koguashvili. It’s a bitter-sweet tale of parental devotion and the blood, sweat, and tears that a father-son relationship can entail.

“Today mom will start writing down everything she remembers. Today I will try to remember how you went from being my baby to being Luana, my princess”, begins the book “I´m girl, I´m princess”, written by Gabriella Mansilla, about her daughter, the first trans girl in the world to receive her ID, according to her gender self-perception through the Gender Identity Law.

Art isn’t created in a vacuum. Much of it springs directly from stresses and inspirations which surround us all.

Georgian actor and director Giorgi Megrelishvili is nothing if not ambitious. When he couldn’t secure financing for a contemporary version of Hamlet in 2017, in which he also played the lead, he shot it on mobile phones.

Kiều, directed by Mai Thu Huyền, blends action and romance alongside lushly staged melodrama in a manner, which summons forth feelings one might most readily associate with the grand, sweeping, foretold fates of an epic poem. That’s no surprise, given that the movie is inspired by a selected excerpt from poet Nguyễn Du’s 3,254-verse “luc bát” meter classic 19th century text “The Tale of Kiều,” an enduring and widely translated piece of early feminism, and one of the most famous Vietnamese literary works of all-time.

In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of films about women made by women. Yuni, Indonesia’s frontrunner this year belongs to this generation.

A family drama that explores the long shadow that one man’s bipolar disorder casts over his loved ones, Belgium-born filmmaker Joachim Lafosse’s The Restless enjoyed its world premiere in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Damien Bonnard – who after a decade’s worth of screen credits burst onto the international film scene playing a conflicted police officer in Ladj Ly’s Golden Globe-nominated Les Misérables – here portrays Damien, a bipolar but loving father and successful artist who feels his best and most creative work comes when he is not taking his prescribed medication.