No Dogs Allowed 2024
1h 46m | Drama | Release date: November 17, 2024 (Estonia)
Storyline:
Fifteen-year-old Gabo seems like a regular teenager who goes to school, plays video games with his best friend, and does other things a normal teenager would do – except he’s not. He has tendencies he knows to be wrong, but cannot control. He befriends Dave, a much older man with his fantasies. Lines soon start to blur between a trusting friendship and being groomed. Once Dave is arrested on suspicion of statutory rape, Gabo must suddenly decide whether to testify against his mentor with the risk of exposing his secret.
Vier Frauen sind einfach zuviel 1992
1h 28m | Comedy | 1992
Storyline:
Tommi lives with his sister, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother-all under one roof. Tired of these women, Tommi flees to his father Hubert. The film portrays Tommi’s struggles with school, love, and the challenges of women.
The Boy with Pink Trousers 2024
Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa (original title)
1h 54m | Drama | Release date: October 10, 2024 (Italy)
Storyline:
On November 20, 2012, Andrea Spezzacatena, a boy who had just turned 15, took his own life. It was the first case in Italy of bullying and cyberbullying that led to the suicide of a minor. The triggering incident was his choice to wear a pair of red trousers, a gift from his mother, which turned pink due to a washing mishap. This movie is based on his story.
Európa messze van 1995
1h 45m | Drama, Family | 1995
Storyline:
The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at the same time, presents an authentic vista of contemporary Eastern Europe. All the events are shown through his eyes. His odyssey is an amusing and grotesque tale of survival as well as a parable on the survival of the human spirit. He comes to grips with a hostile world with both humor and rage, imagination and innocence. Petru lives with his vegetarian father Mihai and his pianist mother Daniela, in a small idyllic village in the Carpathian Mountains. His best friends are his dog Ursu, with whom he shares all his joys and sorrows, and the buffalo Florica. One day the family has to leave the country for political reasons. A long journey to freedom full of thrills and adventures begins, which first leads them from Hungary to Austria. Here they are sent to a refugee camp where Petru’s parents are classified as economic refugees because they have no documents; they are be deported back to Romania. Petru flees on his own and has to encounter a number of dangerous situations. But there are also glimmers of hope when an old stationmaster and his wife from a tiny Bavarian village adopt him, nurse him back to health and enable him to integrate into a new community. But here too, the police are already on his tail.
Fredy is a teenager who lives in the countryside and denies his homosexual inclinations. When rumors start circulating in the village, he decides to go to Havana, where he meets a group of people who help him realize that it is best to accept himself.
B.O.Y. 2024
Glasskår (original title)
1h 27m | Drama | Release date: April 16, 2025 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Sixteen-year-old Tobias reluctantly spends his summer with his grandparents in the countryside, abandoned once again by his elusive mother. His grandfather takes care of his dementia-sick wife while working full time as a glazier. Tobias encounters two local young men: Jonas, a male prostitute, and Aron, a local 25-year-old house painter. Instantly drawn to each other, Tobias and Aron navigate the complexities of their budding relationship. But Tobias, starved for love and affection, struggles to let down his guard, pushing Aron away whenever emotions run too deep. When tragedy strikes, Tobias finds himself sinking back into old habits of self-loathing and self-harm, seeking solace in the pain he inflicts upon himself. As dark thoughts threaten to unravel his sanity and alienate those closest to him, Tobias spirals further into his downward spiral, convinced he deserves every ounce of suffering. Feeling utterly abandoned, Tobias embarks on a harrowing journey of self-discovery and redemption, teetering on the edge of emotional collapse. Will he find the strength to break free from his self-destructive patterns and embrace the love he so desperately craves, or will he succumb to the darkness consuming him from within?
Beyond the Wasteland 2023
M (original title)
1h 39m | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | Release date: October 5, 2023 (North Macedonia)
Storyline:
The world outside the forest is a desolate and dangerous place. The forest is all what eight-year-old Marko has known and the only person he knows is his paranoid, protective Father. His most precious possession is his Picture Book where he believes he can find the answers to everything. His life suddenly changes when he discovers an innocent gentle boy with Down Syndrome named Miko living on the edge of the forest. Things turn for the worse when the boys are left alone to fend for themselves against the remnants of humanity. Marko has no clear idea of what it means to have a mother, but the boys must go on a journey to find her. Outside the safety of the forest, Marko is faced with a shattered world shrouded in silence and full of peril.
The Snow Sister 2024
Snøsøsteren (original title)
1h 36m | Drama, Family | Release date: November 29, 2024 (Norway)
Storyline:
Christmas Eve is approaching. It is also the day Julian turns eleven years old. Usually, it is the best day of the year, filled with the fantastic aroma of gingersnaps and tangerines, the sound of a crackling fire, the decorated Christmas tree, and the flickering candlelight. All the things that makeup Christmas. But this year nothing is as usual. Julian and his family have a sadness over them, and Christian feels that Christmas has just been canceled. Then, one day, Julian meets the happy and Christmas-loving Hedvig and begins to believe that there will be Christmas after all. But there’s something strange about Hedvig’s house, and who is the old man who is lurking around the house all the time?
The Children’s Train 2024
Il treno dei bambini (original title)
1h 46m | Drama, History | Release date: December 4, 2024 (Italy)
Storyline:
1946. Amerigo is seven years old and has never left Naples and his mother Antonietta. His world, made up of streets and poverty, however, is about to change. On board one of the “trains of happiness” he will spend the winter in the north, where a young woman, Derna, will welcome him and take care of him. Next to her Amerigo acquires an awareness that leads him to a painful choice that will change her life forever. It will take him many years to discover the truth: those who love you don’t hold you back, but they let you go.
