80th Golden Globes Non-English Language Film Submissions

Freda is the Creole-language debut feature film by actress, singer and filmmaker Gessica Geneus. She also wrote the script to the film, which portrays Freda (Néhémie Bastien), a young woman who struggles to find hope in a country full of despair, violence and turbulence.

How strict do you have to be as a parent? What is considered spoiling a child? And how do you define love?These are the questions posed in the Chilean film The Punishment (El Castigo) directed by Matias Bize. When Ana and Mateo drive through a forest, the tension is palpable.

Ajooma marks writer-director He Suming’s debut feature film about a widowed Singaporean woman in her 50s, Lim Beehwa (Hong Hui Fang). She goes by the name Auntie, a common moniker for many married or middle-aged women in Singapore.

Claudia Sainte-Luce came to international attention at the 2013 Locarno and Toronto Film Festivals with her comedy-drama The Amazing Catfish which she wrote and directed. The film follows the life of a young woman named Claudia (Ximena Ayala) who becomes caretaker for Martha (Lisa Owen), an older matriarch dying of AIDS.

Pamfir is Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s debut feature film. It tells the story of how corruption affects a family in a small Ukrainian village close to the border of Romania.

70-year-old Sashidhar Lele (Dilip Prabhavalkar) has convinced his 65-year-old wife Ranjana (Rohini Hattandady) that it is time for them to go. Not on a trip or on an adventure but go for good.

The Brilliant Darkness! is a Vietnamese drama that takes us to a funeral in which the deceased grandfather, who was assumed to be leaving his immense fortune to his family, has, in reality, left the family not only without any inheritance but in enormous gambling debt. Now they face impending danger from an unforgiving Mafia who have come to collect.

The Quiet Girl is Colm Bairéad’s feature debut and is an Irish-language adaptation of Claire Keegan’s 2010 novella “Foster. ” The film is set in 1981 and portrays a neglected 9-year-old girl from an abusive household, Cáit (Catherine Clinch), who is sent to stay with distant family in a rural part of southern Ireland.

“Dear Mr. President, I am sitting under the table, it is pitch dark and I am terrified.

The extraordinary life and legacy of Simone Veil (1927-2017) are celebrated in an ambitious opus that pays homage to one of the most revered and influential Frenchwoman. With Simone: Woman of the Century, Olivier Dahan completes a trilogy of iconic personalities, following his 2007 La Vie en Rose (which earned Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf a Golden Globe for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical/Comedy) and Grace of Monaco (with Nicole Kidman in the part of the movie star turned princess).