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
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
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
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
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.
Yurt 2023
1h 56m | Drama | Release date: May 17, 2024 (Turkey)
Storyline:
Twelve-year-old Ahmet is devastated when his newly religious father sends him to an Islamic dormitory, a Yurt, to learn Muslim values. Recently converted, his father sees it as the righteous path for his son, and an opportunity for self-redemption. For Ahmet, it’s a nightmare. In 1997, the political polarization in Turkey makes for a charged atmosphere, with tensions between religious and secular Turks increasingly present. Devout Muslim are ostracized, and religious dormitories, “Yurt”s, are regularly raided by soldiers. Ahmet works hard to be the “perfect son” but it isn’t easy. He has trouble fitting in with rough kids at the Yurt, and feels isolated in his day secular school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend Hakan, a street-smart kid who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together they dream of being older and making their own decisions. Their friendship emboldens Ahmet, who becomes a target for the ire of Yakup Hodja, the dormitory manager. Hodja resents Ahmet’s family wealth, and believes his father has bought his way into the religious leaders’ good graces. His cruel treatment of Ahmet escalates until Ahmet’s father is forced to take action; Hodja is transferred. Only then, Ahmet recognizes he will never meet his father’s expectations. He decides to escape; together with Hakan, they steal a car and run away. What begins as the best day of their lives soon turns dangerous, and Ahmet is faced with a choice. Though neither his previous life nor the oppressive nature of the Yurt feel like home, he has to decide where he belongs.
Sune – Best Man 2019
1h 28m | Adenture, Comedy, Family | Release date: December 20, 2019 (Sweden)
Storyline:
Sune’s class is going on a secret school trip. Sune and Sophie are really looking forward to spending time together when Sune suddenly realizes that Grandpa Helmer’s wedding is the same weekend. Panic. Class trip with Sophie, or his best friend Grandpa? Sune can’t make his mind up so decides to do both. Or something in-between. At the same time, Rudolf is suspicious about the bride. Is Grandpa’s new wife just after his money? And Karin runs into her former love, who is everything that Rudolf is not. Welcome back the Andersson family.
