Violine 2012

Violine 2012

Violine 2012
12min | Short, Drama | 29 June 2012 (Germany)

Storyline:

Oli is a musician who specializes in the violin. When Jan, his pot dealer, comes by his apartment to deliver his latest purchase, the two, while smoking some weed, get into a discussion of their respective lives, focusing primarily on Oli’s violin playing. Initially, Oli believes Jan is mocking him. Through the music, the two make a connection which transforms the encounter. But that connection may ultimately be shattered by real life.

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In the Name of 2013

In the Name of 2013

In the Name of 2013

In the Name of 2013
W imie… (original title)
1h 42min | Drama, Thriller | 8 February 2013 (Germany)

Storyline:

Adam, a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21, now lives in a village in rural Poland working with behavioral problem teens who fight and yell abuses. He declines the advances of a young brunette named Ewa, saying he is already spoken for; however, celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has been a flight from his own sexuality. When he meets Lukasz, the strange and taciturn son of a simple rural family, Adam’s self-imposed abstinence becomes a heavy burden.

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Time to Leave 2005

Time to Leave 2005

Time to Leave 2005

Time to Leave 2005
Le temps qui reste (original title)
1h 21min | Drama | 16 May 2005 (France)

Storyline:

A fashion photographer with terminal cancer elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.

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Le fil 2009

Le fil 2009

Le fil 2009
1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 12 May 2010 (France)

Storyline:

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He’s processing his father’s death, he can’t come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik’s problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother’s bourgeois estate.

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Killa 2014

Killa 2014

Killa 2014
1h 18min | Comedy, Drama | 26 June 2015 (India)

Storyline:

An 11-year-old moves to a small town because of his mother’s job transfer. Initially he faces challenges adjusting this place, soon he get to know his classmates who becomes friends to him. He starts enjoying small moments with his friends. Once from school all gang decides to go for a cycle race. All of them reach to a ‘Killa’ and while exploring ‘killa’ Chinmay is left behind, sudden rains hit the place and all other friends leave him back there. he searches entire ‘killa’ for them and returns home very disappointed that no one cares for him. Same time his mom is faces some challenges at work which she is not able to express to Chinmay. Chinmay is also unhappy asking her mom to leave this place and go back to Pune where they came from. Then some point down the line he realizes that those friends cared about him, also how his mom is trying hard to handle all pressures and this little boy.

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Jack 2014

Jack 2014

Jack 2014
1h 43min | Drama | 7 February 2014 (Germany)

Storyline:

For JACK (10), having a family is the most important thing in the world. Then, one day, his mother disappears. Together with his younger brother MANUEL (6), he embarks on a journey to find her… the journey of a boy who has learnt from an early age to take responsibility. In the end, his brave and startling decision holds up a mirror to all of us.

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Two-Legged Horse 2008

Two-Legged Horse 2008

Two-Legged Horse 2008

Two-Legged Horse 2008
Asbe du-pa (original title)
1h 41min | Drama | 6 May 2009 (France)

Storyline:

A father who has a young son with one leg and no other household members must go to India for some weeks. He hires another boy for a dollar a day to carry the son around on his back, to the school or to whatever whims may occur to the son. Actually the son is so skilled in jumping at really great speed, that he does not need any help or any “horse”. The son’s whims include not only verbal and physical abuse, but also repeated “horse fights” where “the horse” will continually be knocked down. Even “the horse’s” tender feelings for a child girl beggar are exploited and mocked. Because of the brutal and degrading treatment “the horse” will become more and more similar to a real horse.

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