Swinki 2009

Swinki 2009

Swinki 2009
1h 34min | Drama | 10 June 2010 (Germany)

Storyline:

Tomek is 14 and a good student. He’s interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, whereas across the river lies Germany with all its relative affluence. Tomek meets Marta at a disco and falls in love with her. He starts to think up ways of earning money in order to keep her interested. He approaches a pimp who seeks out local boys for his German clients. Tomek has no idea of the brutal fate which awaits him.

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Turn Me On Goddammit 2011

Turn Me On Goddammit 2011

Turn Me On Goddammit 2011
Få meg på, for faen (original title)
1h 16min | Comedy, Romance | 19 August 2011 (Norway)

Storyline

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

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Cross My Heart and Hope to Die 1994

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die 1994

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die 1994
Ti kniver i hjertet (original title)
1h 36min | Drama | 5 August 1994 (Norway)

Storyline

The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60’ies Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.

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Sebastian – When Everybody Knows 1995

Sebastian - When Everybody Knows 1995

Sebastian – When Everybody Knows 1995
När alla vet (original title)
1h 28min | Drama | 3 November 1995 (Norway)

Storyline:

16 year old Sebastian behaves strangely. He stays alone in his room for hours thinking and doesn’t talk to his parents as he used to. He refuses to explain to them what his problem is. The truth is that he slowly discovers that he feels stangely for his best friend Ulf. Soon he is going to accept his true self – that he is gay and that he is also in love with his best friend Ulf.

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Asfour Stah 1990

Asfour Stah 1990

Asfour Stah 1990

Asfour Stah 1990
1h 38min | Drama, Comedy | 26 September 1990 (France)

Storyline

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds – the loving world of Muslim women and the vastly different, harsher world of men – while also dealing with his own budding sexuality.

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Chacun sa nuit 2006

Chacun sa nuit 2006

Chacun sa nuit 2006
1h 35min | Drama | 20 September 2006 (France)

Storyline:

Chacun Sa Nuit explores the carnal interdependencies among a host of characters who live in a town in provincial France. At the center of it all is Pierre (Arthur Dupont), a conceited and vain bisexual musician in his late teens who acts as a magnet, to varying degrees, for a whole array of characters – from his sister, Lucie (Lizzie Brocheré), with whom he has a heated incestuous relationship, to a city councilor with whom he participates in gay orgies. When Pierre turns up dead, Lucie investigates the reasons for his demise and charts the network of sadomasochistic relationships that crisscross the town.

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En du elsker 2014

En du elsker 2014

En du elsker 2014
1h 35min | Drama | 24 April 2014 (Denmark)

Storyline:

World famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob is based in Los Angeles. He is a very successful man who has burned a lot of bridges. He lives and breathes music and very little else. When Thomas travels back to Denmark to record a new album with his regular producer, Molly Moe, his grown-up daughter, Julie, shows up with his 11 year-old grandson, Noa, whom Thomas has never met. Soon – and much against his will – Thomas is forced to take care of Noa. Against all odds the two of them slowly begin to connect through music. Then disaster strikes forcing Thomas to realize, that he now has to make a choice that will change his life forever.

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