Duvar 1983

Duvar 1983

Duvar 1983
1h 57min | Drama | 20 October 2000 (Turkey)

Storyline:

Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions. Made by dying Yilmaz Guney in France, after he escaped from a Turkish prison, enabling him to accept his award at Cannes for Yol (The Road). When the Turkish superstar leading man turned human rights activist, Guney was convicted for pro-Kurdish political activity and murder, by the Turkish military regime. Director/writer Guney’s last film, Duvar (The Wall), was banned in Turkey for 17 years. The incarcerated teens organize and fight back, brutalize each other, exult over the smallest triumph, while joking, suffering and learning from the inhumanity they wallow in. The prison also separately houses men and women, many played by other Turkish expatriates.

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Eastern Boys 2013

Eastern Boys 2013

Eastern Boys 2013
2h 8min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 2 April 2014 (France

Storyline:

They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Romania, Ukraine. They are Eastern boys. The oldest appear no more than 25; as for the youngest, there is no way of telling their age. They hang around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. They might be prostitutes, but there is no way of knowing for certain. Muller, a discreet man in his late fifties has his eye on one of them – Marek. One afternoon, Muller gathers his courage and speaks to him. The young man agrees to come visit Muller the following day, at his place. However the next day, when the doorbell rings, Muller doesn’t have the faintest idea that he has fallen into a trap.

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Pretty Boy 1993

Pretty Boy 1993

Pretty Boy 1993
Smukke dreng (original title)
1h 26min | Drama | 26 March 1993 (Denmark

Storyline:

A neglected, young teenager abandons his troubled home and finds himself caught in a network of jealousy as he drifts from one romantic companion to another, longing for belonging, while living as a hustler and thief among a gang of such.

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Xenia 2014

Xenia 2014

Xenia 2014
2h 14min | Drama, Romance | 18 June 2014 (France)

Storyline:

Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away. Determined to force him to acknowledge paternity, little do they know that the road to the much-coveted Greek citizenship is paved with ghosts from the past, adult savagery and a dream that needs to come true, no matter what. Reaching the end of this initiatory journey they eventually come of age even if Greece refuses to follow.

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Noi 4 2014

Noi 4 2014

Noi 4 2014
1h 33min | Comedy | 20 March 2014 (Italy)

Storyline:

The sun rises and Lara, Ettore, Emma and Giacomo wake up in different places: Lara on his bed; Ettore, on the couch of a friend; Emma, in a busy theater, and Giacomo, in the house of her aunt. Not likely, but they are a family, very close once; today, something less. We are about to witness one day in their lives: frantic, complicated, ordinary and special.
(Google translated)

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Welp 2014

Welp 2014

Welp 2014

Welp 2014
1h 24min | Adventure, Horror | 29 October 2014 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Sam, 12, is in trouble: his entire “Pathfinder” scout troop picks on him – and worse. The leader, Peter, is the worst of all. He seems to find a sadistic pleasure in humiliating Sam. This year’s trip is to a woods near the French border where a curious legend named Kai is said, around the campfire, to make mischief. But when Sam finds that Kai is no legend and that he makes more than mischief, no one believes him.

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Pixote 1981

Pixote 1981

Pixote 1981

Pixote 1981
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (original title)
2h 8min | Crime, Drama | 18 September 1981 (Brazil)

Storyline:

The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution and drugs.

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The child I never was 2002

The child I never was 2002

The child I never was 2002

The child I never was 2002
Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen (2002)
1h 23min | Crime, Drama | 15 November 2002 (Germany)

Storyline:

Fictionalized account of Jürgen Bartsch, a German boy who became notorious in the 1960’s after his conviction for the serial killings and sexual molestation of a number of young German boys. Told partly as recreation and partly as taped confession.

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Maske Ku Vi 1977

Maske Ku Vi 1977

Maske Ku Vi 1977

Maske Ku Vi 1977
Måske ku’ vi (original title)
1h 38min | Drama | 16 February 1976 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Kim (Karl Wagner) is an attractive and well-liked 15-year-old Danish boy with a rather ordinary life. He likes to drink beer and party with his friends. School is a bore. His parents are divorced and his mother doesn’t make much money. She nags at him, frustrated that he wants to go out all the time, and that he doesn’t apply himself or take responsibility. Suddenly Kim finds himself taken hostage by bank robbers, along with Marianne (Marianne Berg), who’s also 15. They find themselves out in the country, hiding from the police, making love and meeting unusual people with unconventional points of view. What will happen to the young lovers’ new romance when the adventure is over and they have to return to their real lives?

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