Mad Bastards 2010
Mad Bastards 2010
1h 34m | Drama | March 6, 2011 (Australia)
Storyline:
TJ’s quest to find the son he’s never known, takes him on a journey across the remote and stunning Kimberley landscape. On the road, TJ questions his life of violence… he meets a host of amazing characters who open up a way of life infused with music and hunting and community.
Wild Sparrow 2019
Wild Sparrow 2019
1h 34m | Drama | 24 July 2020 (Taiwan)
Storyline:
Little Han lives in the mountains with his great-grandmother, Auntie Han-hsiao. In rainy days, Little Han sits in front of the fireplace listening to Auntie Han-hsiao’s colorful and mysterious tales. One day he sees an injured and dying sparrow. With sadness, he digs a small cave and buries it. Looking at the sparrows flying in the mountains, he hopes one day he can leave the mountains. However, when his mother Ali, who works in nightclubs, takes him to city to live with her, he has to face the endless quarrels and fights between Ali and his boyfriend, a man who exploits Ali’s body to make money. In Auntie Han-hsiao’s funeral, while the burnt ashes swirling in the wind, Little Han returns to Auntie Han-hsiao’s bedroom and curls himself up in the bed like the sparrow he has buried.
Ghodwa 2021
Ghodwa 2021
1h 36m | Drama | 6 March 2021 (Tunisia)
Storyline:
Ahmed joins his father Habib, whose state of health is deteriorating. They find themselves in a chaotic situation for which neither is prepared.
Boys Feels: Stand by Me 2022
Boys Feels: Stand by Me 2022
1h 50m | Drama | 11 November 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
Follow these young men through the highs and lows of early learning, when all around us is new, and peer pressure is at its most pervasive.
Confetti Harvest 2014
Confetti Harvest 2014
Dorsvloer vol confetti (original title)
1h 34m | Drama | 18 September 2014 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
The young Katelijne grows up in a strict Protestant peasant family. As the only girl between six brothers, she is hardly involved in farm work and is excluded from daily conversations. Hereby she lets her imagination run free by surrendering to Biblical stories, gossip and even fairy tales, although she is not allowed to read them. During her brother’s wedding, however, she overwhelms her family with literature, saying goodbye to her childhood.
Kunsten at græde i kor 2006
Kunsten at græde i kor 2006
1h 47m | Comedy, Drama | 27 April 2007 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Follows a precocious, eleven-year-old Allan, who tries desperately to keep his dysfunctional, rural family together during the social upheavals of the early seventies. Allan reveres his father, Henry, the local milkman, and can’t understand why others don’t feel the same way. His family life is so twisted he thinks it’s perfectly normal to stay awake all night dealing with his father’s hysterics and suicidal threats. Allan’s older brother left town several years ago, and his mother gave up long before that, relying on sleeping pills to escape Henry’s tantrums. Allan then becomes obsessed with a rival family, whom he considers foolish white trash until they start taking away Henry’s customers. He is frustrated that his mother doesn’t take his father’s complaints seriously, and is perplexed by the increasingly rebellious and bizarre behavior of his sister, Sanne. Incapable of understanding what’s going on and heavily influenced by his father, Allan commits appalling acts, unaware of their import.
Plaza Catedral 2021
Plaza Catedral 2021
1h 34m | Drama, Thriller | 9 December 2021 (Panama)
Storyline:
The 42-year-old Alicia is a grief-stricken woman, a grief that has caused her to be estranged from society. Her world is turned upside down when a 14-year-old boy who looks after people’s cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.
A Certain Kind of Silence 2019
A Certain Kind of Silence 2019
1h 36m | Drama | 29 November 2019 (Serbia)
Storyline:
A young au pair meets a radical family community while working abroad and gets lost in the new world presented to her.
Los reyes del mundo 2022
Los reyes del mundo 2022
1h 43m | Adventure, Drama | 6 October 2022 (Colombia)
Storyline:
Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano live on the streets of Medellín. The five children no longer have any contact with their families. They form a kind of fraternal clan in which they have to make their way in a parallel world without laws. In doing so, they uphold ideals such as friendship and dignity, but also display disobedience and resistance. In a dangerous journey between delirium and nothingness, the group leaves the city and enters the depths of the Colombian interior. There they hope to find a piece of land that Rá inherited from her late grandmother. Like thousands of other Colombians, she was once violently expelled by paramilitaries. After his death, Rá received the “promised land” through a government restitution program. The boys make friends that help them advance but also warn them of the dangers of their company. They also meet sex workers who provide them with short-term maternity care.
