Golden Globe Awards

The cruel dictatorship of a nurse over the patients in a mental health institution is threatened by a newcomer. From this simple premise a masterpiece was born: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest became an instant classic, winning six Golden Globes out of six nominations, a glorious sweep.

By the time this Neil Simon comedy finally won a Golden Globe, Simon had already written ten movies that had been nominated, including his masterpiece The Odd Couple. What did the trick this time was George Burns.

From the beginning, the new film by acclaimed Polish director Ryszard Bugajski, starring  Maria Mamona, throws you into a whirlpool of guilt, remorse and painful search for a spiritual overhaul,  and it never quits. Bugajski, a longtime disciple of the late Andrzej Wajda, directed Interrogation, which brought Krystyna Janda the Best Actress Award at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

Set in a beautiful valley in the Himalayas, the story unfolds as we see a young boy lead two cows to graze in the meadows. His mother walks a distance behind him, after a while the boy turns around to look for his mother but he cannot see her.

Produced by Boney Kapoor, who has 30 Bollywood films to his credit, and starring his wife Sridevi, a superstar of Hindi cinema at her 300th film, Mom is the feature film debut by Ravi Udayawar. Sridevi plays the titular mother, Devki, a biology teacher in high school.

Beirut today: Joub and Rana meet on a video shoot for a commercial. He is a handsome and sensitive sound engineer and she is a gorgeous model, a strong-willed and carefree woman.

Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo: city of twelve million people. In one of its many bars, Félicité sings late into the night, her haunting voice resonating far beyond the assorted patrons, into the mysteries of the night.

Set in the microcosm of a tiny mountain village, White Sun, directed by Deepak Rauniyar, illustrates various issues still dividing Nepal after the end of the civil war, the bloody armed conflict between government forces and Maoist rebels (1996-2006) that ended the monarchy and established a People’s Republic. When the elderly chairman of a small village suddenly dies, his daughter-in-law needs help to move the body out of the house, since women are not allowed to touch the dead.

Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993) is the only entry from Spain in this year’s Golden Globes and it comes with the blessings of the last Berlin International Film Festival. At the Berlinale the Carla Simon feature debut won the Best First Feature award.

Newton has broken attendance records for an independent and non-Bollywood film at the box office. Directed by Amit Masurkar -who also wrote the screenplay - Newton  centers on Newton Kumar, a rookie government clerk who is sent off to a village in the jungles of Chhattisgarh to oversee and set up the election process, not an easy task as the place is under the control of the Naxalysists (Communists).