Foreign Film Symposium

For the 17th year running, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association celebrated its Foreign Film nominees with the Globe Foreign-Language Nominee Symposium held in association with the American Cinematheque. The Symposium featured a virtual panel with all five directors of the nominated films in the Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language category, moderated by the HFPA's Silvia Bizio.

As has become tradition the directors of the five Golden Globe nominated foreign language films convened at the American Cinematheque for the Foreign Film Symposium. The roundtable discussion featured the directors of the five nominated films: Alfonso Cuarón (Roma), Lukas Dhont (Girl), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Never Look Away), Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters) and Nadine Labaki (Capernaum).

As is tradition the Golden Globes Foreign Film Symposium took place at Hollywood’s historical Egyptian theater. Organized in conjunction with the American Cinematheque and moderated by the HFPA’s Sam Asi the symposium packed the house for a Q&A with the nominated directors from France, Holland, Germany, Iran and Chile vying for the 74th Foreign Language Film Golden Globe.