78th Golden Globe Awards

A funny and quick-paced sex comedy (79 minutes) about modern love the way it might happen to bored couples in Valencia, where the film was shot. The film is directed by Juanjo Moscardó and Suso Imbernón, based on a screenplay by María Mínguez, María Laura Gargarella and Moscardó himself.

Much like the mystical island the film shares its name with Atlantis is a feat of cinema that is hard to come by. The story takes place in 2025, one year after the end of the devastating war in eastern Ukraine.

Ernesto (Ernesto Alterio), an eccentric and nonconformist theater director who is already going through a bad period in his personal life, receives the news of his mother´s death. A short while ago, his mother (Magüi Mira) had informed him that when she died, she wished to be buried at sea, on the shores of her hometown, Altea.

New Order, by talented Mexican director Michel Franco, begins with protesters smeared in green paint storming into a lavish society wedding involving Mexico’s richest members of the upper class: the mob robs the guests of all they have on them, before shooting them in cold blood. Shocking images burn on our eyeballs as we watch a portrait of human suffering and callousness.

This film starts with Pin-Jui (Tzi-Ma), a little boy running through a sweeping rice field, calling out for his mother and father in the distance. We realize that what he sees is not real but rather the image he conjures up because he misses them so much.

Just like the board game Ludo, the film involves several stories that take shape simultaneously but separately, only to intersect eventually. As two characters in the beginning comment, “Ludo is life and life is Ludo.

The old adage, “You reap what you sow” is the theme of a rare film coming out of Aruba, an island nation not known for its movie industry. The plot falls into the narco-crime story-thriller-courtroom drama genre.

Russian director Egor Abramenko makes his feature debut with Sputnik, which merges the sci-fi genre with compelling human drama. Russia, 1983: Cold War tensions are at their peak.

The Armenian film Songs of Solomon is an earnest biopic celebrating the life of the great Armenian ethnomusicologist Komitas, who pioneered adapting folk music into symphonic works, and who during his lifetime transcribed over 3,000 pieces of Armenian folk music, more than half of which were subsequently lost: only around 1,200 are now extant. But more significantly, it is a painful testament to the systematic genocide of the Armenian people – not the mass murder of 800,000 children and over a million and a half women following the first World War, but the earlier 1895 attempt by Sultan Abdul Hamid II to wipe out Christian Armenians who for centuries before had lived together peacefully with their Muslim neighbors.

She is what you might call a cool granny – chain-smoking, feisty, with a penchant for regular psychic readings, this old Chinese lady is told by her clairvoyant that October 28 will bring a windfall of luck to her. Meanwhile, her American-born son wants her to move in with him and his family because her retirement money won’t really cover her rent and expenses much longer.