Un nos ola’ leuad 1991
Un nos ola’ leuad 1991
1h 38m | Drama | Release date: November 21, 1992 (Japan)
Storyline:
After many years in prison a man returns to his town of birth. The memories from his childhood, which culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl, are portrayed through flashbacks. The man walks through the town, the same way he walked as a boy.
Ragazzi fuori 1990
Ragazzi Fuori 1990
1h 50m | Drama | Release date: September 14, 1990 (Italy)
Storyline:
Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he’s met by Vita, a girl who’s come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
Sakalí léta 1993
Sakalí léta 1993
1h 50m | Comedy, Musical | Release date: December 9, 1993 (Czech Republic)
Storyline:
A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the “man from nowhere” a generation gap story unfolds of changing social climate. The action is driven by the character of a young man named Baby (Martin Dejdar) who causes a local rebellion by bringing rock’n’roll to a Communist neighborhood raised on swing.
Mach die Musik leiser 1994
Mach die Musik leiser 1994
1h 25m | Drama | Germany
Storyline:
David lives on the outskirts of Essen, with his single mother in a social housing project. Heavy metal and girls are at the center of his life. He looks forward to the end of his school years and the new phase of his life with trepidation.
Amigomío 1994
Amigomío 1994
1h 55m | Drama | Release date: June 9, 1994 (Argentina)
Storyline:
A young father takes his son on a journey away from Buenos Aires and through the strange and wondrous world of rural South America. The man is unemployed and separated from the boy’s mother. The trip teaches the man to rediscover both the world outside urban Argentina, and also to rediscover his son.
Lima Elang 2011
Lima Elang 2011
1h 28m | Adventure, Drama, Family | Release date: August 25, 2011 (Indonesia)
Storyline:
Baron is reluctant to move from Jakarta to Balikpapan. In the new town, he chooses to play with his remote-controlled car, instead of making new friends. Despite his behavior, Baron is chosen to represent his school in a boy-scout camp with his schoolmate, the overtly optimistic Rusdi. Together with other friends, the fire expert Anton and the temperamental Aldi, and a strong girl they meet in a camp named Sindai, they stumble into an unexpected adventure as Rusdi and Anton are kidnapped by illegal loggers. Now it’s up to Baron, Aldi and Sindai to rescue their friends in this fun and thrilling adventure film for the whole family in the Lebaran holiday!
Full of Grace 2022
Full of Grace 2022
Llenos de gracia (original title)
1h 49m | Comedy, Family | Release date: June 24, 2022 (Spain)
Storyline:
Sister Marina, a very unorthodox nun, is sent during the summer of 1994 to El Parral, a boarding school for boys threatened to be closed soon. Even though the kids welcome Marina with all kinds of pranks, they will, little by little, become something very close to the family they never had.
A Time for Drunken Horses 2000
A Time for Drunken Horses 2000
Zamani barayé masti asbha (original title)
1h 20m | Drama, War | Release date: September 13, 2000 (France)
Storyline:
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. This heartbreaking tale shows the lengths to which a family will go in order to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor in order to work.
Guo Zhao Guan 2018
Guo Zhao Guan 2018
1h 33m | Drama, Family | Release date: October 17, 2018 (China)
Storyline:
An old man who barely survived from the Cultural Revolution is told that his friend is currently suffering from hemiplegia. Having survived the Cultural Revolution together, the old man set off on a journey to see his friend. By tricycle, he takes his seven-year-old grandson on the back seat. With the form of a Road Movie, he meets a wide range of people on the road while sharing warm words as he travels. This film is based on the memory of the director’s grandfather. Whenever the little grandson is terrified by something strange while slowly following the country road in China, the grandfather teaches the kid the benefits of familiarity. The wisdom he shares gives us the strength of mind to melt emotional barriers.
