Sebastian 2024
Sebastian 2024
1h 50m | Drama | Release date: November 27, 2024 (Belgium)
Storyline:
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
Sebastian 2024
Sebastian 2024
1h 50m | Drama | Release date: November 27, 2024 (Belgium)
Storyline:
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kalak 2023
Kalak 2023
2h | Drama | Release date: February 29, 2024 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a “true” and “dirty” Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. But ultimately he has to confront his father.