Golden Globes 2022 Non-English Language Film Submissions

The words “Effort, Equilibrium, Loyalty” were painted in red on the warehouse wall of Básculas Blanco, one of Spain´s leading manufacturers of professional-grade scales. That´s the motto that owner Julian Blanco wants to instill in his employees.

Thailand’s premier auteur director, Apichatpong Weerasethakul was back in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival with Memoria, and with a personal contribution to the Neon omnibus film, The Year of The Everlasting Storm. He was the only talent with two titles in Cannes’ main selection this year.

In Clara Sola, Clara (Wendy Chinchilla Araya) lives in a rural area of Costa Rica with her elderly mother Fresie (Flor Maria Vargas Chaves). Clara’s niece Maria (Ana Julia Porras Espinoza) has moved in with them after her mother passed away, resulting in three generations of women sharing the same roof.

The connection between sex and automobiles is as common to films as guns and love. Mostly inside the privacy of the metal coaches, sex scenes punctuate the history of films – with some unforgettable examples.

107 Mothers is a prison drama about women inmates in a Ukrainian jail. A Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Ukraine co-production, the film was directed by Peter Kerekes and is based on real-life stories of women jailed at Odessa Correctional Facility Number 74, one of two Ukrainian prisons where pregnant women can serve their sentences with their children.

“We are all trying to understand each other all the time,” says Santiago (Leonardo Sbaraglia) midway through Wandering Heart, the second film by Argentinean director Leonardo Brzezicki. Santiago is a gay single parent going through an overwhelming situation.

There is no doubt about it: this is Fahrije’s story. The face of a middle-aged woman, beautiful but grim and framed by long dark hair, is what we first see on screen.

The world of professional soccer has always thrived on the talents of superstars like Pele, Beckham, Messi, and Renaldo. But the search is always on for the next big talent.

On the brink of middle age, 40-year-old Daniel (Antonio Saboia) has been suspended from the police force after a deadly episode that occurred while he was in training. The son of a military man, Daniel feels lost and useless, running loops in the streets of Curitiba, one of Brazil’s most prosperous southern cities.

An erotic drama that plumbs the psyche of someone infatuated with an unavailable partner, director Danielle Arbid’s Simple Passion was slated to make its world premiere at Cannes in 2020 before the global pandemic scuttled plans for that festival. Instead, the movie bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival later in the year, before enjoying a slate of complementary festival presentations in San Sebastian, Moscow, Busan, and elsewhere, followed by its theatrical release this year.