L’immensità 2022

L'immensità 2022

L’immensità 2022

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neighborhoods being created, TV variety shows still in black & white, societal advances and family models that now seem outdated.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.

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Me and You 2012

Me and You 2012

Me and You 2012

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.

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Salamandra 2008

Salamandra 2008

Salamandra 2008

Salamandra 2008
1h 24m | Drama | Release date: April 21, 2010 (France)

Storyline:

Argentina during military dictatorship in the early 80s: Hoping for a new life after being released from prison, Alba takes her six-year-old son Inti with her to a remote hippie village in the foothills of the Andes. She settles in the house of a deceased physician and indulges in marijuana and free love. Inti, looking for support, and the other children in the community are on their own. Finally, Alba no longer endures the wild, chaotic life in the community. She emerges a small cabin without water and electricity. Threatened and humiliated by local peasant children, mother and son try to establish themselves under simplest conditions and make a new life for themselves.

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City of Dreams 2023

City of Dreams 2023

City of Dreams 2023

City of Dreams 2023
1h 54m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: August 30, 2024 (United States)

Storyline:

City of Dreams follows Jesús, a young farmer in rural Mexico who dreams of playing for Club Puebla, his local soccer team. With the promise of training at a soccer camp in Los Angeles, Jesús is convinced by his father to leave home, but he soon discovers that he’s been sold to a sweatshop run out of a decrepit mansion in downtown Los Angeles. Jesús is then subjected to the grueling 18-hour work schedule dictated by El Jefe, a boss who promises freedom for those who complete their quotas, and whose brutality is motivated by his own desperation to provide for his family back in Mexico. Despite all, Jesús finds solace in Elena, a girl who was similarly betrayed and sent to America under the guise of attending a fashion school. When Elena goes missing and another co-worker, Carlitos, is severely beaten for confronting El Jefe, Jesús realizes his only way out is a daring escape.

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L’ultima volta che siamo stati bambini 2023

L'ultima volta che siamo stati bambini 2023

L’ultima volta che siamo stati bambini 2023

L’ultima volta che siamo stati bambini 2023
1h 47m | Comedy | Release date: October 12, 2023 (Italy)

Storyline:

After a friend disappears, taken to a Nazi camp, a group of three youngsters go on a rescue mission. While searched by a nun and a soldier, they are buffeted by perilous adventures and a desire for independence that comes at a heavy price.

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Promis… juré! 1987

Promis... juré! 1987

Promis… juré! 1987

Promis… juré! 1987
1h 38m | Comedy, War | Release date: December 9, 1987 (France)

Storyline:

We follow the life of a 12-year-old boy living in occupied France in 1944. We see his family, his chubby best friend, the girl who ignores him … and the German deserter he hides in the cellar.

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