Squirrels 2018

Squirrels 2018

Squirrels 2018
1h 31min | Comedy | 17 July 2018 (USA)

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Three young artists; a trans opera singer/dj, a middle eastern American performance artist and a gay film maker, share a tiny studio apartment while they look for love and fame in NYC. They scrimp and save and scam and steal their way from month to month somehow they survive but in the new world shared economy they are just one click away from losing everything.

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Birthmarked 2018

Birthmarked 2018

Birthmarked 2018

Birthmarked 2018
1h 30min | Comedy | 30 March 2018 (USA)

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In 1977, two respected scientists, Ben Morin and his wife Catherine quit their jobs at the university to conduct an experiment they think will revolutionize our understanding of human identity. The project aims to raise three children contrarily to their genetic predispositions to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature. They want to prove that everyone has the same potential to become anything. Maya, a newborn girl adopted from two feebleminded parents, is raised to be smart, while Maurice, a newborn boy adopted from two anger-prone parents, is raised to be a pacifist. Finally, their own biological son Luke, who comes from a long lineage of scientific brains, is raised to become a revered artist. The experiment will reveal little scientific truth, but rather lead Ben and Catherine to discover the true value of family.

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Boundaries 2018

Boundaries 2018

Boundaries 2018
R | 1h 44min | Comedy , Drama | 13 September 2018 (Brazil)

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Single mom Laura (Farmiga), along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry (MacDougall) is forced to drive Jack (Plummer), her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he’s kicked out of yet another nursing home. The road trip veers off course when Jack decides to make a couple ‘stops’ and Henry asks to see his ne’er-do-well dad Leonard (Cannavale), completely upending Laura’s attempt to hold her family together and ultimately forcing her to finally see her father for the man he really is.

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Neohlizej se, jde za nami kun 1981

Neohlizej se, jde za nami kun 1981

Neohlizej se, jde za nami kun 1981
Neohlízej se, jde za námi kùn (original title)
1h 13min | Comedy | 6 May 1982 (Hungary)

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Postwoman Mrs Skorepa, her husband the ambulance driver Mr Skorepa and their eleven-year-old twins Petr and Pavel live in Prague in Malá Strana (Lesser Town), one of the Prague’s historical and oldest quarters. The boys are crazy about cars and everything linked to them. They don’t share their father’s love of classical music. On the other hand, they are crazy about the newly announced scrap yard competition for paper collection. The lottery tickets awarded for every ten kilograms of old paper collected could win them a go-kart.

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Skin Deep 1979

Skin Deep 1979

Skin Deep 1979
Senza buccia (original title)
1h 44min | Comedy , Romance | 31 October 1979 (Italy)

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Giuliano and Nora, bourgeois siblings of Milan, are spending their holidays in the comfortable family villa in Vulcano, Eolie. With them there are friends Barbara, Giuliano’s fiancée, and Daniele, a young man who, apart from the usual rites, has no sexual experiences and is also shy. While Nora, after waiting in vain for Daniele to come forward, so she decides to leave them and follow other friends on the cruise, Giuliano remains faithful to Barbara until she meets nudist Trella, a young Swedish woman who is sailing with her husband, Bjorn. The situation becomes tense when middle aged Adriana, Giuliano and Nora’s mother’s friend arrives at the villa. Her sentimental relationship is in crisis. She little by little puts things right.

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Eighth Grade 2018

Eighth Grade 2018

Eighth Grade 2018
R | 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama | 3 August 2018 (USA)

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In his feature film directorial debut, comedian Bo Burnham deftly encapsulates the awkwardness, angst, self-loathing and reinvention that a teenage girl goes through on the cusp of high school. Given that the 27-year-old stand-up comic achieved fame as a teenager himself through YouTube by riffing on his insecurities, he is uniquely capable as the film’s writer and director to tell the story of Kayla, an anxious girl navigating the final days of her eighth grade year, despite creating a protagonist w female instead of male. Like Burnham did more than a decade ago, 13-year-old Kayla turns to YouTube to express herself, where she makes advice blogs in which she pretends to have it all together. In reality, Kayla is sullen and silent around her single father and her peers at school, carrying out most of her interactions with her classmates on Instagram and Twitter. Her YouTube videos are a clever narrative tool that provide insight into her inner hopes and dreams, much like an inspirational online diary. One of Eighth Grade’s biggest triumphs is in its realism.

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