Promis… juré! 1987
Promis… juré! 1987
1h 38m | Comedy, War | Release date: December 9, 1987 (France)
Storyline:
We follow the life of a 12-year-old boy living in occupied France in 1944. We see his family, his chubby best friend, the girl who ignores him … and the German deserter he hides in the cellar.
Kalak 2023
Kalak 2023
2h | Drama | Release date: February 29, 2024 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a “true” and “dirty” Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. But ultimately he has to confront his father.
Yurt 2023
Yurt 2023
1h 56m | Drama | Release date: May 17, 2024 (Turkey)
Storyline:
Twelve-year-old Ahmet is devastated when his newly religious father sends him to an Islamic dormitory, a Yurt, to learn Muslim values. Recently converted, his father sees it as the righteous path for his son, and an opportunity for self-redemption. For Ahmet, it’s a nightmare. In 1997, the political polarization in Turkey makes for a charged atmosphere, with tensions between religious and secular Turks increasingly present. Devout Muslim are ostracized, and religious dormitories, “Yurt”s, are regularly raided by soldiers. Ahmet works hard to be the “perfect son” but it isn’t easy. He has trouble fitting in with rough kids at the Yurt, and feels isolated in his day secular school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend Hakan, a street-smart kid who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together they dream of being older and making their own decisions. Their friendship emboldens Ahmet, who becomes a target for the ire of Yakup Hodja, the dormitory manager. Hodja resents Ahmet’s family wealth, and believes his father has bought his way into the religious leaders’ good graces. His cruel treatment of Ahmet escalates until Ahmet’s father is forced to take action; Hodja is transferred. Only then, Ahmet recognizes he will never meet his father’s expectations. He decides to escape; together with Hakan, they steal a car and run away. What begins as the best day of their lives soon turns dangerous, and Ahmet is faced with a choice. Though neither his previous life nor the oppressive nature of the Yurt feel like home, he has to decide where he belongs.
Sune – Best Man 2019
Sune – Best Man 2019
1h 28m | Adenture, Comedy, Family | Release date: December 20, 2019 (Sweden)
Storyline:
Sune’s class is going on a secret school trip. Sune and Sophie are really looking forward to spending time together when Sune suddenly realizes that Grandpa Helmer’s wedding is the same weekend. Panic. Class trip with Sophie, or his best friend Grandpa? Sune can’t make his mind up so decides to do both. Or something in-between. At the same time, Rudolf is suspicious about the bride. Is Grandpa’s new wife just after his money? And Karin runs into her former love, who is everything that Rudolf is not. Welcome back the Andersson family.
I bambini di Gaza – Sulle onde della libertà 2024
I bambini di Gaza – Sulle onde della libertà 2024
1h 30m | Drama | Release date: March 28, 2024 (Italy)
Storyline:
In the midst of the war in Gaza during the Second Intifada in 2003, two boys, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along with a former surfing champion, form a friendship united by the love of water and learn from each other.
The Story of Me 2009
The Story of Me 2009
O Contador de Histórias (original title)
1h 40m | Drama | Release date: August 7, 2009 (Brazil)
Storyline:
O Contador de Histórias (The Story of Me), a Luiz Villaça;a movie based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, is a story about how affection can change reality. The youngest of 10 brothers, Roberto showed a special talent to tell stories, by changing through narrative his own experiences about frustration into beautiful and touching fables. At age 6, the boy filled with imagination goes to live in a newly opened government institution, which main goal is to help young and poor children. His mother takes him there believing it will guarantee a better future for her child. But the reality of the institution is very different from what was advertised on TV. Roberto, little by little, loses hope. At age 13, after hundreds of escapes, he’s considered “irrecoverable”, in the words of the headmaster of the facility. However, Roberto proves to be a challenge to the French pedagogue Margherit, who comes to Brazil to work on a research. Determined to make the boy her object of study, she tries to get closer to him. At first, Roberto struggles, but after a traumatic experience, he looks for shelter in Margherit’s home. What comes out of it is a relationship based on friendship and tenderness, that will put Roberto’s disbelief in his future at check and will challenge Margherit to keep her beliefs.
My Paper Dolls 2023
My Paper Dolls 2023
Le mie ragazze di carta (original title)
1h 41m | Comedy | Release date: July 13, 2023 (Italy)
Storyline:
The story takes place in Italy during the seventies. Tiberio is the son of a poor couple which decide to move out rural life to start a new life in the city due to new father’s job. Tiberio has difficulty to adapt this the new situation until he meets a boy who will be his friend. Thanks to him, he will discover for the first time Porno. This event will introduce Tiberio to puberty phase, and Tiberio start to develop an addiction that separate him from real life. Meanwhile his parents are struggling with the difficulty to adapt to their new lifestyle.
Bekas 2012
Bekas 2012
1h 37m | Adventure, Drama | Release date: January 11, 2013 (United Kingdom)
Storyline:
Iraq in the early 1990 was a devastating land to survive in. When we think of Iraq, the first thing that tends to pop into our minds is the war and Saddam Hussein. But there is another side too – it is perhaps the most notorious country in the world and it goes by the name Kurdistan. Welcome to BEKAS. This is a story about two homeless brothers Zana (6) and Dana (10) who live on the edge of survival. In the beginning of the story they catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema. Zana and Dana decide that they want to go to America and live with Superman. Once they get there he can solve all their problems, make their lives easy and punish everyone that has been mean to them. Zana, the younger brother, starts to make a list of all people he is going to tell Superman to punish. On top of the list is Saddam Hussein. Dana on the other hand makes a concrete plan for what they need to get there; money, passports, transportation and a way to get across the border. Unfortunately they have neither of those. But in spite of everything they decide to follow the dream.
Bad Boys 1961
Bad Boys 1961
Furyô shônen (original title)
1h 29m | Drama | Release date: March 29, 1961 (Japan)
Storyline:
Directed in documentary style about a number of delinquent boys in a reformatory, who were not given scripts and asked to simply be themselves, this movie focuses on the young men and their natural day-to-day. When the protagonist is released he has an opinion regarding the institution, which moulded him. The film is considered one of the first of the new wave movement of Japan and the winner of the Kinema Junpo Award.
