2019 Golden Globe Foreign Language Film Submissions 2018
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- DirectorTemirbek BirnazarovStarsAkylbek AbdykalykovBayish IsmanovDina JakobAn odd couple of lost souls share an uneasy friendship while riding a motorcycle on a lonely stretch of moonlit highway.
- DirectorLukas DhontStarsVictor PolsterArieh WorthalterOliver BodartA promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.
- DirectorAlonso RuizpalaciosStarsGael García BernalLeonardo OrtizgrisAlfredo CastroIn 1985, a group of criminals mock the security of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City to extract 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from their showcases.
- DirectorNatasha MerkulovaAlexey ChupovStarsEvgeniy TsyganovNatalya KudryashovaYuriy KuznetsovWhen a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsMilan MaricDanila KozlovskiyHelena SujeckaThe film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice.
- DirectorLászló NemesStarsJuli JakabVlad IvanovEvelin DobosA young girl grows up to become a strong and fearless woman in Budapest before World War I.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsEero AhoJohannes HolopainenJussi VatanenA film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.
- DirectorZaza KhalvashiStarsMariska DiasamidzeAleko AbashidzeRamaz BolkvadzeAli's family has inherited a mission - taking care of a local healing water and curing sick fellow villagers with it. Three sons are skeptical and only the young daughter Namme stays as the guardian of family traditions. In parallel, a hydro power station is being constructed locally and environmental changes are at stakes. One day the spring water starts to disappear. Father remembers the old tradition: the water will not return unless sacrifice is made.
- DirectorVladimir LertStarsEvgeniy KnyazevAndrey KaykovVladimir Dolinskiy"Tevye's Daughters" is an authentic tragicomedy directed by Vova Lert. The screenplay is based on the famous play "Memorial Prayer" by Grigori Gorin. This play has been successfully performed for more than thirty years around the Eastern Europe. It is the early XX century. Tevye the Dairyman lives in a small village in Ukraine. He is poor and believes that his daughters have one chance to escape poverty - a successful marriage. Tevye accepts a profitable proposition from a matchmaker, but his beautiful daughters have a different plan. The film was shot at historical locations in Ukraine where the original stories of "Tevye the Dairyman" took place. Tevye moved to the village of Zabirie in about 1873. The villagers are proud that Tevye and his wife Golda became prototypes of stories "Tevye the Dairyman" - the classics of Jewish literature written by Sholom Aleichem. In the 1900s Tevye has built a new house. Villagers recalled Tevye living there and being a kind and a very brave man. The house is still there, looking almost the same.
- DirectorCristina GallegoCiro GuerraStarsCarmiña MartínezJosé AcostaNatalia ReyesDuring the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
- DirectorRobert SchwentkeStarsMax HubacherAlexander FehlingSebastian RudolphIn the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
- DirectorHeikki KujanpääStarsMartti SuosaloJani VolanenLeena PöystiIn a detention camp in 1918, a group of Finnish actors are sentenced to death. When an important German general arrives, the camp's vicious commandant forges out a cruel plan: the imprisoners have to perform a comedy - and if they can make the visiting general laugh, they will be spared. A story about zest for life and power of laughter. Based on true events.
- DirectorJoram LürsenStarsJacob DerwigBarry AtsmaFockeline OuwerkerkIn Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChao DengLi SunRyan ZhengIn a Chinese royal court, an army commander secretly trains a "shadow" to retake a city against the wishes of the king.
- DirectorDarya ZhukStarsAlina NasibullinaIvan MulinYura BorisovIn 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.
- DirectorErik PoppeStarsAndrea BerntzenAleksander HolmenSolveig Koløen BirkelandA teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.
- DirectorAbu Bakr ShawkyStarsRady GamalAhmed AbdelhafizOsama AbdallahA Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
- DirectorAlice RohrwacherStarsAdriano TardioloAgnese GrazianiAlba RohrwacherAn unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.
- DirectorSampson YuenStarsJohn YKoon-Lan LawWilson LeeA film about power, love, delusion, confinement delivered through the not-so-ordinary relationship between a mother and daughter.
- DirectorOfir Raul GraizerStarsTim KalkhofSarah AdlerRoi MillerA German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsZhalgas KlanovZhasulan UserbayevRuslan UserbayevA portrait of five brothers living on a farm on the Kazakh plains, where the sudden intrusion of the modern world brings corruption, temptation and deceit.
- DirectorJavier FesserStarsJavier GutiérrezAthenea MataJuan MargalloA basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.
- DirectorIram HaqStarsMaria MozhdahAdil HussainEkavali KhannaThe story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.
- DirectorPernille Fischer ChristensenStarsAlba AugustMaria BonnevieTrine DyrholmBiopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
- DirectorTabrez NooraniStarsAbhishek BharateRiya SisodiyaMrunal ThakurInspired by real life events, Love Sonia is the story of a young girl's journey to rescue her sister from the dangerous world of international sex trafficking.
- DirectorTuva NovotnyStarsPia TjeltaAnders BaasmoPer FrischBLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.
- DirectorKonstantin KhabenskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyChristopher LambertFelice JankellSoviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
- DirectorAleksi SalmenperäStarsLaura BirnTommi KorpelaHannu-Pekka BjörkmanThe story of the tumultuous relationship between a successful actress and a struggling writer.
- DirectorReinhold BilgeriStarsMarkus FreistätterMartin MakMarianne SägebrechtErik/Erika Schinegger - the ski sensation that became media sensation. As Erika she was celebrated. As newly discovered Erik repudiated and accused of fraud. A true story about the injustice of nature, the taboo topics in Austria in the 1970s.
- DirectorSanjay Leela BhansaliStarsDeepika PadukoneRanveer SinghShahid KapoorSet in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.
- DirectorDaryne JoshuaStarsJill LevenbergJarrid GeduldElton LandrewStory of drug addiction and murder
- DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsMatti OnnismaaJari VirmanHannamaija NikanderA man who euthanizes animals as a side job runs afoul of a white supremacist.
- DirectorRodrigo PatinoStarsFernando Arze EchalarCristian MercadoPablo EcharriTrying to save his son, an alcoholic bus driver gets involved in a human trafficking case.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDogu DemirkolMurat CemcirBennu YildirimlarAn unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
- DirectorChito S. RoñoStarsChristian BablesJomari AngelesFrancis MagundayaoIntoy takes care of his parents when his sister moved out to work overseas. Since he lives in a remote area in Samar, the only way he could contact his sister is by going to strange rock formations on the island.
- DirectorJanus MetzStarsSverrir GudnasonShia LaBeoufStellan SkarsgårdThe story of the 1980 tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.
- DirectorAlessio CremoniniStarsAlessandro BorghiMassimiliano TortoraMilvia MariglianoThe incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime but in just one week's time, a family is changed forever.
- DirectorEmmanuel FinkielStarsMélanie ThierryBenoît MagimelBenjamin BiolayMarguerite must navigate through the hardships of the Liberation after losing her husband and starting a relationship with the enemy during the War.
- DirectorDante LamStarsYi ZhangJohnny HuangHai-QingPLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in the fictional Republic of Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsLernik HarutyunyanHermine StepanyanAleksandra PolitikGor is trying to fly to Armenia from Moscow to search for his family stuck at the very epicentre of the earthquake. Once there, Gor rushes through what's left from the town in search of his small house. On his way, he meets various characters, each one of them with his or her personal tragedy and challenge. The locals strive to find their loved ones - alive or dead, where dead is almost as good as alive because it means that people can get a proper burial. Medics try to help those who survived, working day and night despite the shortage of the medicaments and performing surgeries with the materials on hand. Soldiers and volunteers risk their lives to clear the debris. As Gor doesn't give up looking for his family, his wife and small daughter are still alive under the debris. But as long as there is love, there is hope.
- DirectorMohamed Al DaradjiStarsHaydar AbdulamirHuda AbdulamirBennet De BrabandereAs Sara stands on the cusp of committing an unthinkable act, an unforeseen and awkward encounter gives her the opportunity to witness the potential consequences of her destructive action. But is this a second chance or an admission of guilt?
- DirectorRahmatou KeïtaStarsAïchatou Lamine FofanaSandor FuntekMariam KabaA young woman from Niger returns to her home village after finishing college abroad.
- DirectorRungano NyoniStarsMaggie MulubwaHenry B.J. PhiriNancy MuriloIn a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches' camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.
- DirectorLiina TrishkinaStarsReimo SagorNora AltrovEmily ViikmanWhat would you do if one day a newborn baby was put on your hands and said: take it or leave it.
- DirectorTolga KaraçelikStarsTolga TekinBartu KüçükçaglayanTugce AltugIn a Turkish village, three siblings who neither know each other nor anything about their late father, wait to bury his body. As they start to find out more about their father and each other, they also start to learn more about themselves.