Official Submission: Denmark

PANELISTS:

Mads Mikkelsen

Actor

Thomas Vinterberg

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Andreas Wiseman

“I was looking at how many fantastic accomplishments and world-changing events have been pulled through by people who were drunk. That made ....” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Greece

PANELISTS:

Christos Nikou

Director

MODERATOR: Andreas Wiseman

"This is a very allegorical film and a very personal story... I was thinking about how we erase things that hurt us.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Georgia

PANELISTS:

Dea Kulumbegashvili

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Nancy Tartaglione

"I wanted to capture how time flows for this woman and how she lives in the spaces.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Romania

PANELISTS:

Alexander Nanau

Director/Producer/Cinematrographerpher

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"Every day we realized more and more how the world resembled what we were portraying.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Serbia

PANELISTS:

Michael Berenbaum

Executive Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

"When [you] make a film like this…you go in, to face the abyss, and out, to make sure that the abyss doesn’t transform you.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Russia

PANELISTS:

Andrei Konchalovsky

Writer/Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Andreas Wiseman

"My objective is usually to try and capture the absolute authentic feelings of the characters, to try to snatch this event as a piece of real life.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Colombia

PANELISTS:

Javier Camara

Actor

Fernando Trueba

Director

MODERATOR: Nancy Tartaglione

"You can be Marlon Brando, but you can’t fake this joy of life, and Javier has this.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Mexico

PANELISTS:

Fernando Frías de la Parra

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Dino-Ray Ramos

"The lack of opportunity has been systemic." Read Story Here

Official Submission: Indonesia

PANELISTS:

Joko Anwar

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Dino-Ray Ramos

"I grew up watching horror films so I’m more eloquent talking about issues through the film language of horror.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: India

PANELISTS:

Lijo Jose Pellissery

Director

Nate Bolotin

Executive Producer

Prashant Pillai

Music Director/Composer

MODERATOR: Dino-Ray Ramos

"The film is all that the world should not be. It is about how slowly we have to leave behind all the chaos in the world.” Read Story Here

FYC - Best Animated Feature

PANELISTS:

Mariusz Wilczynski

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Tom Grater

"At some point the film outsmarted me. It grew cleverer than I am and I started following it.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Guatemala

PANELISTS:

Jayro Bustamante

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

"The idea was to create in the ‘fiction’ world a kind of space to have justice. Even if it was a fiction, we wanted to make a kind of catharsis.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Switzerland

PANELISTS:

Stéphanie Chuat

Writer/Director

Nina Hoss

Actor

Véronique Reymond

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Tom Grater

"We are soulmates ... if one is gone, the other will never be the same. The question is, what if the other was gone? That was the starting point.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Poland

PANELISTS:

Michał Englert

Co-Director/Cinematographer

Małgorzata Szumowska

Director

MODERATOR: Tom Grater

"What’s hidden behind the story is the most important thing in this film.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Ivory Coast

PANELISTS:

Philippe Lacôte

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Nancy Tartaglione

"In my culture, in my country, the border between the visible world and invisible world, the border between magic and the realistic, is very fine.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Vadim Perelman

Director

Ilya Stewart

Producer

MODERATOR: Tom Grater

"For me, being Jewish, there was a great responsibility to tell the story with respect and care. But it needs to be told.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Hungary

PANELISTS:

Lili Horvát

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Jake Kanter

"The main terrain of this story is mystery — this place in the unsettling, murky no-man’s land that separates love from madness.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Slovakia

PANELISTS:

Peter Bebjak

Director

Noel Czuczor

Actor

MODERATOR: Jake Kanter

"There are still groups of people in Europe who still think it’s 1939 and they are pushing their radical agendas forward. We tend to forget these terrible ...” Read Story Here

Foreign Language Category (Golden Globes)

PANELISTS:

Sophia Loren

Actor

Edoardo Ponti

Director

Véronique Reymond

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"I love working with my mother who happens to be an amazing actress. And what I love most of all is to present her in a way that I see her.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Chile

PANELISTS:

Maite Alberdi

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

"He was the worst spy in the world, but he was super touching. He really committed not with his mission, but with the people that he was meeting.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Finland

PANELISTS:

Alma Pöysti

Actor

Zaida Bergroth

Director

MODERATOR: Tom Grater

"Tove Jansson is the national treasure of Finland, an icon. ... I was a bit worried because I needed to find my own way to the character, to feel that ...” Read Story Here

Official Submission: France

PANELISTS:

Barbara Sukowa

Actor

Filippo Meneghetti

Director/Co-Writer

MODERATOR: Tom Grater

"When I went to visit I heard them speaking to each other and right there it clicked — I found the right angle for the story I wanted to tell.” Read Story Here