The Here After 2015

The Here After 2015

The Here After 2015
Efterskalv (original title)
1h 42min | Drama | 9 October 2015 (Poland)

Storyline:

On returning home to his father and younger brother after serving time in prison, teenager John is looking forward to starting new life again. However, members of the local community can’t forgive him killing his ex-girlfriend. John’s presence brings out the worst in everyone around him and a lynch-mob atmosphere slowly takes shape. Feeling abandoned by his former friends and the people he loves, John loses hope and the same aggression that previously sent him to prison starts building up again. Unable to leave the past behind, he decides to confront it.

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Helden wie wir 1999

Helden wie wir 1999

Helden wie wir 1999
1h 33min | Comedy | 10 November 1999 (Germany)

Storyline:

Heroes Like Us presents as heroes ordinary teenagers and young East German adults, who in Thomas Brussig’s (the novel and screenplay author) story, caused the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Our young hero falls in love, from an early age, with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. Our hero’s father, however, is a member of the “Stasi”, the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son’s relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself. The absurdities of everyday life in the former German “Democratic” Republic are comically (sometimes tragically) are exposed throughout the film.

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El Tercero 2014

El Tercero 2014

El Tercero 2014
1h 10min | Drama, Romance | 3 April 2014 (Argentina)

Storyline:

After meeting in a chat room, Fede (22) arrives at a downtown building to have an intimate encounter with a gay couple older than him. As the night unfolds, Fede has an intense and telling experience. The next morning finds him different, as if suddenly he had found a new possible way to love.

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Ausente 2011

Ausente 2011

Ausente 2011
1h 31min | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 11 August 2011 (Argentina)

Storyline:

Martin, a young Argentine student, is exploring the reactions of his sports coach, Sebastian, while vying for his love and affection. He has an opportunity – one night to push the envelope and be as close as ever to reaching what he so desperately wants. With his teacher keeping him off at a distance, but at the same time being so kind and nurturing, Martin continues to inch further and further towards crossing the line. But, with all the twists and turns of love, life, and personas, Martin finds himself on the wrong side of the line, and Sebastian finds himself with more regret than Martin could have ever imagined.

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Sondagsbarn 2013

Sondagsbarn 2013

Sondagsbarn 2013
1h 58min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 28 August 1992 (Sweden)

Storyline:

The film switches back and forth between the adventures of Pu on a summer holiday in Norrland in Sweden and and the adult Pu visiting his father who lives in an old people’s home. Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland in the 1920s with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.

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Les Amis 1971

Les Amis 1971

Les Amis 1971
1h 40min | Drama | 10 November 1971 (France)

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One of the mavericks of the French cinema ,Gerard Blain became famous with three great works ,two of which (“Le Beau Serge” “Les Cousins” )belonged to the Nouvelle Vague whereas the third one was one of the masterpieces of the old one (“Voici Le Temps Des Assassins”). The clues to his future as a director were not Claude Chabrol or Julien Duvivier though.His most notable influence is arguably Robert Bresson.The amateurish acting of the actors who deliver their lines in a neutral voice ,a sense of ellipsis ,all that reminds you of Bresson.

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Killer Kid 1994

Killer Kid 1994

Killer Kid 1994
1h 30min | Drama, War | 22 June 1994 (France)

Storyline:

A Lebanese kid is sent to France on a terrorist mission for “Allah’s Army”. An Arab French kid becomes involved unwittingly. A bond develops between the two, while they become alienated from and independent of the adults in their lives.

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