Golden Globe Awards

In 1995 Sandra Bullock was interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about While You Were Sleeping, a romantic comedy directed by Jon Turtletaub, in which she plays a Chicago Transit token collector who saved a man’s life. That performance earned her the first of five Golden Globe nominations as Best Actress.

“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.

Based on the book of the same name by Olavi Ruitlane (who also serves as screenwriter), the story of On the Water revolves around the adventures and misfortunes of Andres (Rasmus Ermel), a shy teen growing up under the guidance of his caring grandmother (Maria Klenskaja) and his cynical and grumpy grandfather (Kalju Orro) because his father disappeared in Russia and his mother fled to Sweden. Andres lives in Vörud County, in Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1982, at the end of Leonid Brezhnev´s rule.

In Jurgis Matulevičius’ noir tale Isaac, violence has no beginning or end. In line with The Painted Bird (2019) or this year’s Captain Volkonogov Escaped, the film meanders through the obscure halls of reciprocal crime, guilt, regret.

France, 1963. 20-year-old promising literary student Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei, in a compellingly intense performance), unexpectedly gets pregnant.