Foreign Film

The Demons, a Canadian drama, written and directed by the rising star filmmaker Philippe Lesage ( San Francisco Film Society's Golden Gate New Directors Prize), explores the darkest depths of the human soul, as seen through the perspective of a young boy anxiously witnessing a wave of child abductions in his town. Based in part on Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage’s own childhood experience - though that experience was not as dramatic as the film - The Demons offers an extraordinary examination of childhood fears and of the anxiety associated with a nascent sexuality.

One has to admit that for many Americans the only film from and about Kazakhstan did not even come from that country. It was the satire Borat:Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

The dynamics concerning women in Arab culture are at the center of Sand Storm. The directorial debut from Israeli writer/director Elite Zexer follows a contemporary Arab-speaking family living in a village of Southern Israel.

Directors Angelina Jolie (In the Land of Blood and Honey), Pedro Almodóvar (The Skin I Live In), Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (The Kid With a Bike) and Yimou Zhang (The Flowers of War) speak at the Golden Globe Foreign Language Nominee Panel Discussion at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, January 14, 2012.

68th Golden Globes Foreign Film Symposium.