The Giants 2011

The Giants 2011

The Giants 2011

The Giants 2011
Les géants (original title)
1h 24min | Drama | 12 October 2011 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Brothers Seth and Zak, fifteen and thirteen & 3/4 years old, are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather’s house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent the house out to a local drug dealer, but things don’t go exactly as planned…

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Endless Poetry 2016

Endless Poetry 2016

Endless Poetry 2016
Poesía sin fin (original title)
2h 8min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy | 5 October 2016 (France)

Storyline:

Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.

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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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