Golden Globe Awards

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Where the Wind Blows (Hong Kong)

Where the Wind Blows is a crime thriller covering many decades of police corruption on the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon/New Territories at a time when both areas were still under British colonial rule. The original title was going to be Theory of Ambitions, given that the film tells the story of two policemen who want to leave their thankless low-class existence behind by cooperating, and later dominating, the local triads (Chinese gangs, comparable to the Yakuza in Japan).
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Indemnity (South Africa)

What happens when the person who is supposed to help you overcome your vulnerability exploits that vulnerability instead? That is the question posed by the action thriller Indemnity set in South Africa, that country’s contender for best Non-English Language Film. Told mostly in Afrikaans, with some English, the film features Africa Movie Academy Award winner Jarrid Geduld (10,000 BC and Ellen: Die Storie van Ellen Pakkies) as Theo, a former firefighter who is suffering from PTSD after a rescue goes wrong.