Foreign Film Submissions - 77th Golden Globe Awards

Incitement is a historical thriller by Israeli director Yaron Zilberman. It was shown at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival in the World Cinema competition where its screening had to be interrupted briefly due to a security threat.

 “There is no sexuality in Georgian dance,” says Aleko (Kakha Goidze), teacher of a touring dancing company. That doesn’t sit well with Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) a young dancer who has been training from an early age at the National Georgian Ensemble.

Saving Leningrad is a Russian war film about a part of history that is not known to many Westerners. It tells the harrowing tale of peasants trying to survive when their city of Leningrad is besieged during WWII.

The power of cinematic resistance should not be underestimated. This is one of the messages conveyed by Lav Diaz’s latest, the 4.

After successfully collaborating on 2015’s Golden Globe-nominated The Fencer, director Klaus Härö.

Strangers of Patience was screened as part of the HFPA’s Foreign Language Film Series this year and accepted for Golden Globe consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Andrey (Konstantin Lavronenko) is a well-known artist-photographer who lives alone in a big city with his Labrador Charley.

German writer/director Nora Fingscheidt’s feature debut System Crasher ventures into the little talked-about world of mental health. The nine-year-old Benni (Helena Zengel) suffers from preverbal trauma and abuse and is ushered from institution to institution in the absence of parental care.

Shyrakhy: Guardian of The Light begins in 1945 Germany during the Battle of Berlin. A Soviet soldier, an ethnic Kazakh (Muratzhan Mukazhanov), is thrown into action as his fellow soldiers die in his arms.

Running Against the Wind, the Ethiopian drama film by German director Jan Philipp Weyl focuses on the lives of two brothers who dream large and spend the rest of their lives pursuing their dreams. Abdi (Ashenafi Nigussu) wishes to one day become a long-distance runner while Solomon (Mikias Wolde) desires nothing more than to become a professional photographer.

Daniel (Bartosz Bielenia), a 20-year old criminal offender, experiences a spiritual transformation in a juvenile detention center. His dream is to become a Catholic priest, but his crime prevents him from applying to the seminary.