Golden Globes 2023 Non-English Language Film Submissions

In some Latin American countries, a Cadejo blanco is a mythological being in the form of a wolf, who lives at night and appears to protect drunken travelers or people who pass through solitary places. There is also the Cadejo negro whose mission is to abduct passersby.

Birthday Boy (Cumpleañero) tells the story of Jimmy, who invites his close circle of friends to a stunning beach mansion to celebrate his 45th birthday. As Jimmy and his wife are arranging for their guests to arrive, we can sense a certain unease and nervousness.

This dark, philosophical fable from Georgian female director and writer Khatuna Vashade is a story of the randomness of fate. Bullet is also a story about revenge against an unseen enemy.

Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio brings 1970s Italian politics to the screen in this six-episode series, Exterior, Night. The story follows the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister and leader of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro, who was held hostage for 54 days before being murdered by the Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization known as the Red Brigades.

This Is What I Remember is a new film by acclaimed Kyrgyz film director Aktan Arym Kubat, many of whose previous films have been premiered in Cannes, Locarno and Berlinale. The film is an international co-production between Kyrgyzstan, Japan, and France, supported by Berlinale's World Cinema Fund, and relates the tragic story of a man named Zarlyk who loses his memory whilst working as a migrant and disappears for 20 years.

In Holy Emy, two young adult Filipino immigrant sisters are left to fend for themselves in Athens, Greece as they try to move on with their lives after their mother left them to go back to the Philippines. Teresa is pregnant with a Greek sailor’s child.

In A Piece of Sky, the audience is transported to a remote mountain region in Switzerland where the pastures are steep and working the land requires a particular kind of toughness and character. In this raw environment, a tragic, slow-burning love story unfolds - framed by an Alpine version of a Greek chorus - over three years, or as the original title Drii Winter suggests: three winters.

Irina (Elizaveta Maximova) is an immigrant single mother from Ukraine living in a small Czech town. One day, her teenage son Igor (Gleb Kuchuk) is assaulted and severely injured.

In the Heart of the Machine is a dramatic thriller directed by Bulgarian director Martin Makariev. The storyline was personally shared with the director more than 10 years ago and is based on true events from the late 70s.

German writer-director Nicolette Krebitz ventures into the arena of taboo love with A E I O U: A Quick Alphabet of Love about Anna (Sophie Rois), a sixty-year-old woman who has an affair with teenage Adrian (Milan Herms). Yet, there is nothing sensationalistic about this story; rather, it explores the spontaneity and surprising nature of human love.