Bright Nights 2017
Bright Nights 2017
Helle Nächte (original title)
1h 26m | Drama | Release date: August 10, 2017 (Germany)
Storyline:
A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.
Io capitano 2023
Io capitano 2023
2h 1m | Drama | Release date: January 3, 2024 (France)
Storyline:
A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.
Sweet Journey 2011
Sweet Journey 2011
Yun xia de ri zi (original title)
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: March 8, 2011 (China)
Storyline:
Guizhou province, southern China, spring 1980. Schoolboys Zhao Qiangsheng (Ma Guoxing) and Fulai (Wang Shibin), who’ve spent their whole life in a remote village, hear from a PLA soldier about a thing called a “city”, full of people, buildings and cars, three mountains away. Full of curiosity, and with the orphaned Fulai fed up with being passed around the community, the two set off to reach it when their school is closed for five days…
The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995
The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995
Hikayatul jawahiri thalath (original title)
1h 52m | Drama, Romance, War | Release date: December 6, 1995 (France)
Storyline:
A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef’s family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father’s in prison and his heavily-armed brother’s on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef’s schoolmate from a well-off Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he’s waited so long for.
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006
46-okunen no koi (original title)
1h 25m | Drama, Fantasy | Release date: August 26, 2006 (Japan)
Storyline:
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.
Blodsband 2007
Blodsband 2007
Blodsbånd (original title)
1h 40m | Crime, Drama | Release date: March 2, 2007 (Norway)
Storyline:
15-year old Mirush. He travels to Norway to find his father, as he left the family when Mirush was small. Now his dad is running a restaurant in Oslo’s backyards and struggling with debt burdens to the Albanian mafia in the capital city. His father has started a new life with a Norwegian girlfriend, and his Albanian family is just a vague memory–until Mirush shows up. He starts working for his father but doesn’t say much. Slowly but surely they get to know each other but Mirush isn’t fully prepared for what he finds out, and he’s forced to make choices that will have major consequences for both of them.
Salta! 2023
Salta! 2023
¡Salta! (original title)
1h 25m | Comedy, Family, Sci-fi | Release date: September 1, 2023 (Spain)
Storyline:
Oscar and Teo (13 and 11 years old) are two brothers, very different from each other, who will have to face the loss of their mother, a scientist obsessed with wormholes.
With the Nose in the Stream 2012
With the Nose in the Stream 2012
Le nez dans le ruisseau (original title)
1h 30m | Drama | Release date: September 2012 (Switzerland)
Storyline:
A philosophy professor strikes up a friendship with a 12-year-old boy who understands Rousseau’s philosophy better than he, without ever having been exposed to it.
The Rocket 2013
The Rocket 2013
1h 40m | Drama | Release date: August 29, 2013 (Australia)
Storyline:
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he’s not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
