The Senator 2024
O Senador (original title)
1h 26m | Thriller | Release date: June 20, 2024 (France)
Storyline:
Renan is hot, young, handsome, and entangled in an illicit affair with an influential, closeted right-wing senator. When he falls in love with Victor, a journalist determined to expose the senator’s hypocritical life.
Miss Entebbe 2003
1h 20m | Drama | Release date: July 31, 2003 (Israel)
Storyline:
Jerusalem 1976, a coming of age story about a confused girl, set against the Entebbe airplane hijacking.13- year-old Noa, is convinced she can free her friend’s mom by kidnapping an Arab boy. Instead, she finds herself involved in a dangerous adventure that quickly develops a life of its own, and becomes deadly serious. Noa and her neighbor friends try to follow the adults patterns of behavior but, while entering the turmoil of political conflict and hatred, they discover that the solution is not to be found in the violent adult arena, but rather within their own hearts.
Hanging Gardens 2022
Janain mualaqa (original title)
1h 57m | Drama | Release date: September 17, 2024 (Mexico)
Storyline:
When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, where friends become enemies and nothing is certain in an explosive mix of love, war and madness.
Les enfants perdus 2023
1h 23m | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller | Release date: July 1, 2023 (Czech Republic)
Storyline:
Audrey and her three siblings are abandoned in an old house, where they were supposed to spend the summer vacations with their father, but he unexpectedly disappears during the night.
Koniec wakacji 1975
1h 26m | Drama, Family, Romance | Release date: March 31, 1975 (Poland)
Storyline:
Fifteen-year-old Jurek is to spend his holidays at home, in Silesia. After returning from school, he does not find her mother or her things. His father tells him a story about his mother’s sudden departure to a sanatorium. The boy does not really believe it. The boy has a bad feeling about his mother. He wants to talk to his father, learn the reasons for his mother’s decision, but his father gives him vague explanations. Jurek goes to Warsaw, to his mother’s sister, and there he finds the bitter truth.
L’immensità 2022
1h 39m | Drama | Release date: September 15, 2022 (Italy)
Storyline:
Rome, 1970s: a world which straddles new neighborhoods being created, TV variety shows still in black & white, societal advances and family models that now seem outdated. Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment. Their marriage has reached a point of no return: they no longer love each other, but they can’t seem to leave each other either. Their children are the only thing that keeps them together, the same children that are the syphon for all of Clara’s dreams of freedom. Adriana, the eldest, has just turned twelve; Clara’s mood swings and the growing tensions between her parents play out before her watchful gaze. Adriana is in a state of refusal of her name and her identity, and her dogged pursuit of trying to convince everyone that she is a boy brings the already fragile stability of her family to breaking point. As the children search around them for guidance — be it a voice from above or a song on the TV — everything changes, both inside and outside of themselves.
Me and You 2012
Io e te (original title)
1h 43m | Drama | Release date: October 25, 2012 (Italy)
Storyline:
A 14-year-old pretends to go on a ski trip, but actually spends the week in isolation in his basement, escaping society’s pressure. When his 25-year-old half-sister enters the basement, a few emotional and confronting days and nights ensue.