80th Golden Globes Non-English Language Film Submissions

The Kings of the World is Colombian director Laura Mora’s second feature film and a film about having or not having a safe place in the world. It takes place in the bustling city of Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia, and follows the 19 year-old Ra (Carlos Andres Castaneda), who lives and hustles in the streets.

Snow and bears are not immediately associated with Turkey. Maybe that’s the reason why writer-director-producer Selcen Ergun takes her time in introducing us to this seeming abnormality: in one long take we follow a car slithering through an expansive and uninviting winter scape, a tiny red dot on a white canvas.

Late on the evening of November 19th, 2013, Fabienne Kabou, a Senegalese emigrant, left her 15-month-old daughter to drown at high tide on a northern France beach. It was a horrific act that made headlines, the mother admitted to it but failed to explain why she did it.

No Bears is the latest movie from celebrated Iranian director and democracy campaigner Jafar Panahi, who has also directed This Is Not a Film and Taxi Tehran. This nuanced piece of film making is set in a rural village, where the residents have had a fear of bears inculcated in them, as a way of controlling their freedom of movement.

Argentina, 1985 is a courtroom drama that depicts the true account of how a public prosecutor and his team took the country’s military leaders to court for crimes they committed while the country was under a dictatorship, from 1976 to 1983. A David and Goliath scenario, The Trial of the Juntas was a landmark case, hard-fought by attorneys Julio Strassera (Richardo Darin) and Luis Moreno Ocampo (Peter Lanzani).

Utama, which in Aymara language means "our home" is what Virginio and Sisa (José Calcina.

With Nostalgia, Italian writer/director Mario Martone returns to the heart of his beloved hometown of Naples, many years after his acclaimed L'amore molesto (Troubled Love, 1995). This time, he explores the historical, colorful, and troubled aera of Naples’s Rione Sanità.

This is the current list of films submitted for the 2023 Golden Globes Non-English Language Film Golden Globe. Come back for further updates.

More than a hundred films were submitted for consideration for the 2023 Golden Globe Awards’ Non-English Language Film (NELF) field. These are entries to the category, renamed Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language (formerly Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language).

This is the current list of films submitted for the Golden Globes 2022 Non-English Language Film Golden Globe. Come back for further updates.