80th Golden Globes Non-English Language Film Submissions

Uruguay´s rural economy has been in crisis since 2002. Its traditional livestock labor force has to migrate in search of work.

A Pakistani drama, Joyland is about a family dominated by a conservative patriarch and the repercussions when one of the married sons secretly finds work in an erotic dance theater and falls in love with a transgender dancer. In his feature directing debut, Saim Sadiq manages several feats.

Carajita, from the Dominican Republic and Argentina, is a drama about Sarah (Cecile van Welie), her nanny Yarisa (Magnolia Nunez), and Yarisa’s daughter Mallory (Adelanny Padilla). Directed by Ulises Porra and Silvina Schnicer from their screenplay with Ulla Prida, Carajita explores the very close relationship between Sarah and Yarisa, who are almost like daughter and mother.

In her third Hindi film, The Rapist, veteran filmmaker-actress Aparna Sen shines a much-needed light on the horrifying prevalence of sexual violence in India. Konkona Sen Sharma, actress and daughter of Aparna Sen, stars as Naina Mishra, a New Delhi university professor teaching criminal psychology.

A Man of the People tells the story of Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman Deng Xiaoping. The biopic follows the period when he was forced to retire from all of his positions and work in a factory between 1969 and 1973.

Love, friendship and work – those are the things that matter for the women of rural Tunisia who work in the fields harvesting figs during the summer. Up before dawn, a group of young workers joins a crew of veteran farmers in the orchards where they will spend the day harvesting and packaging figs to be transported to the market.

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, a married couple who are both filmmakers, have collaborated since the early 1990s on videos, films, photographs, and art installations. Both born in Beirut in 1969, they spent their childhood there during the Lebanese civil war.

Murder and the fight for religious and political power - what would it be like if “In the Name of the Rose” did not take place in a Christian but an Islamic setting? Re-reading Umberto Eco’s novel was writer/director Tarik Saleh’s original inspiration for.

The emotions writer-director Juraj Lerotić recreates in his film Safe Place, feel so authentic that viewers who don’t know that the story is in large part autobiographical, will likely sense it anyway. There are scenes of such intimacy, one almost hesitates to intrude.

Based on the life of Nambi Narayanan, starring R. Madhavan, Rocketry: The Nambi Effect follows the life of a much-lauded scientist from the Indian Space Research Organisation who was falsely accused of espionage for selling rocket technology to Pakistan; he was later exonerated.