78th Golden Globe Awards

Derek Tsang's hard-hitting drama Better Days is a gripping impressive melodrama, focused on the bullying of students in a Chinese high school. Chen Nian (Zhou Dongyu) is among the top students in her year despite coming from an impoverished background.

How about taking a road trip from Italy to the countries where Soviet rule is still in place? In 1989, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, that's what three friends from the city of Cesena – Pago, Rice and Bibi (played by Lodo Guenzi, Jacopo Costantini and Matteo Gatta) – decide to do, in search of fun and adventure. They get more than they bargained for.

Satchel and Jackson Lee, children of three-time Golden Globe nominee Spike Lee and producer Tonya Lewis Lee, are our Golden Globe® Ambassadors for 2021. Their appointment marks the first time in HFPA history that two siblings of color have held the position, with Jackson being the first Black male Ambassador.

The Russian film Text is a fast-paced screen adaptation of Dmitry Glukhovsky’s bestselling novel of the same name. The main character, 27-year-old Ilya Goryunov, was falsely imprisoned for seven years based on drug trafficking charges.

Satchel and Jackson Lee, children of three-time Golden Globe nominee Spike Lee and producer Tonya Lewis Lee, are our Golden Globe® Ambassadors for 2021. Their appointment marks the first time in HFPA history that two siblings of color have held the position, with Jackson being the first Black male Ambassador.

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.

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.