Golden Globe Awards

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy - Nominee.

Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy - Nominee.

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.

Who would have imagined that the actor whose image became synonymous with the worldwide sensation of  Squid Game was secretly preparing his directorial debut? Lee Jung-jae, who was nominated for numerous accolades (including for Golden Globes Best Television Actor - Drama Series in 2021), was present at the 75th Cannes International Film Festival with his first film, Hunt, screened in the Midnight section. Hunt adapts a story that Lee Jung-jae developed over four years.

Chilean director Fernando Guzzoni’s fourth feature film, Blanquita, is probably his most successful one, for which he won the Horizons Award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival in 2022. The film, coproduced by Chile, Mexico, France, Luxembourg and Poland, has been invited to other important festivals such as Busan, Sao Paulo, Thessaloniki and Stockholm, and the Huelva Latin American Film Festival, where it took the main prize.

When, in 2008, Daniel Day-Lewis was fêted with the Best Actor Golden Globe for his work in There Will Be Blood, little did he know it would mark the first of a litany of honors he would receive that year as he dominated the cinematic awards circuit. Unfortunately, it was also the year of a Writers Guild of America strike.

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.

In her eighth feature, One Fine Morning, filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve comes up with a deceptively simple drama: a poignant, quietly illuminating rumination on being a mother, daughter and lover in these times. Hansen-Løve also wrote the deeply personal film, set in Paris, about a translator, Sandra (Léa Seydoux), who is a single mom to an eight-year-old (Camille Leban Martins), while trying to find a decent nursing home for her dad (Pascal Greggory), a former professor rapidly deteriorating from a neurodegenerative disorder.

The Exam, a drama from Iraq, is about Rojin (Vania Salar), a young Kurdish-Iraqi woman who is about to take the university exam. Heartbroken and suffering from depression after the disappearance of her fiancé, Rojin fears her father’s rule that if she fails the exam, he will force her into marriage.

This Chinese comedy-drama follows the story of an orphaned brother and sister duo surviving alone. Jing Hao lives with his 6-year-old sister, Tong.