Foreign Film Submissions - 75th Golden Globe Awards

Each year the Hollywood Foreign Press Association bestows the Golden Globe Award in the Foreign Language category. To qualify a film must be a motion picture drama, musical or comedy with at least 51% of the dialogue spoken in a non-English language. Documentaries are not eligible. Animated films – including foreign language ones – are considered in the Animation category.  

To qualify, a foreign language film must have been released in their country of origin during the prior 15-month period, from October 1 to December 31 before the awards. Each film must have been screened for active HFPA members. Differently than the Academy Awards rules, the HFPA does not limit submissions to one per country, multiple submissions from any country are allowed as long as the films follow the qualification requirements and are screened for the membership as verified by the Foreign Film Committee.  

This year 73 Foreign Language Films (from 52 countries) were eligible for Golden Globes consideration. That made for an intense viewing schedule ... as well as for one of the greatest privileges of the year.

Title

Country

Director

1:54

Canada

Yan England

A Ciambra

Italy/USA

Jonas Carpignano

Amerika Square

Greece

Yannis Sakaridis

Ayiti Mon Amour

Haiti

Guetty Felin

Ayla: The Daughter of War

Turkey

Can Ulkay

Beyond Brotherhood

Panama/Argentina

Arianne Benedetti

Bingo: The King of Mornings

Brazil

Daniel Rezende

Birdshot

Philippines

Mikhail Red

Blindness

Poland

Ryszard Bugajski

BPM (Beats Per Minute)

France

Robin Campillo

Breath

Iran

Simon Baker

Divine Order, The

Switzerland

Petra Volpe

El Inca

Venezuela

Ignacio Castillo Cottin

Everybody Loves Somebody

Mexico/USA

Catalina Aguilar Mastretta

Fantastic Woman, A

Chile

Sebastián Lelio

Félicité

Senegal/France

Alain Gomis

First They Killed My Father

Cambodia

Angelina Jolie

Fortunata

Italy

Sergio Castellitto

Foxtrot

Israel

 Samuel Maoz

Glory

Bulgaria

Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov

Happy End

Austria

Michael Haneke

Hochelaga, Land of Souls

Canada

François Girard

How Viktor “the Garlic” Took Alexey
“the Stud” to the Nursing home

Russia

Alexandr Hant

I Dream In Another Language

Mexico

Ernesto Contreras

Ice Mother

Czech Republic/Slovakia/France

Bohdan Sláma

In The Fade

Germany/France

Fatih Akin

Insult, The

Lebanon

Ziad Doueiri

Jupiter’s Moon

Hungary/Germany

Kornél Mundruczó

Layla M.

Netherlands

Mijke de Jong

Line, The

Slovakia/Ukraine

Peter Bebjak

Lipstick Under My Burkha

India

Alankrita Shrivastava

Listen

Lebanon

Erahm Christopher

Longing

Israel

Savi Gabizon

Lost In Paris

France

Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon

Loveless

Russia

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Mawlana

Egypt

Magdy Ahmed Aly

Menashe

USA

Joshua Z. Weinstein

Midwife, The

Belgium/France

Martin Provost

Mom

India 

Ravi Udyawar

Music of Silence, The

Italy

Michael Radford

My Husband’s Wife

Kazakhstan

Gia Noortas,  Eugine Cheltsoff

Newton

India

Amit Masurkar

Nile Hilton Incident, The

Sweden/Denmark/Germany

Tarik Saleh

Nirvana

China

Xiaodong Xie

Oasis

Panama

Kevin Macdonald

On Body And Soul

Hungary

Ildikó Enyedi

Paths of the Soul

China

Yang Zhang

Patricia: el regreso del sueño

Dominican Republic

René Fortunato

Quit Staring At My Plate

Croatia/Denmark

Hana Jušić

Racer and the Jailbird

Belgium

Michaël R. Roskam

Razzia

Morocco

Nabil Ayouch

Red Oliender’s Roktokorobi

India/USA

Amitava Bhattacharyya

Sayakbay - Homer of 20th century

Kyrsgystan

Ernest Abdyjaparov 

Scary Mother

Georgia

Ana Urushadze

Sheikh Jackson

Egypt

Amr Salama

Sound of Silence

India

Bijukumar Damodaran

Spoor

Poland

Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik

Square, The

Sweden/Germany/France

Ruben Östlund

Summer 1993

Spain

Carla Simón

Tamara

Venezuela

Elia K. Schneider

Tatara Samurai

Japan

Yoshinari Nishikôri

Thelma

Norway

Joachim Trier

Tom of Finland

Finland/Sweden/

Germany

Dome Karukoski

Tramontane

Lebanon

Vatche Boulghourjian

Tulipani: Love, Honour & A Bicycle

Netherlands/Italy

Mike van Diem

Under The Tree

Iceland/Denmark

Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson

Wajib

Palestine

Annemarie Jacir

Wedding Plan, The

Israel

Rama Burshtein

White Sun

Nepal/Netherlands/USA

Deepak Rauniyar

Wolf Warrior II

China

Jing Wu

Wound, The

South Africa/Germany/

Netherlands

John Trengove

Yellow

Iran

Mostafa Taghizadeh

Zama

Argentina/Brazil/

Spain

Lucrecia Martel