Carnal Sins 2023

Carnal Sins 2023

Carnal Sins 2023

Carnal Sins 2023
Almamula (original title)
1h 36m | Drama, Fantasy | Release date: August 24, 2023 (Argentina)

Storyline:

Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Nino lives with his family and he is in the midst of exploring his early awakening sexuality. At age 14, Nino is already a victim of homophobic attacks. To protect him, his parents decide to leave the city temporarily and the whole family moves to a farm near a rural village. The place is surrounded by the “monte”, a huge humid and dark forest where his father works. Nino feels guilty for what he is going through and for having turned his family’s life upside down. His sister Natalia, aged 16, away from her friends and in her teens, has no mercy on him. Estela, his mother, wants to put Nino “back on the right track” and organizes his Confirmation in the local church. In this rural and superstitious environment, Nino hears about the legend of a mysterious creature called the Almamula, which haunts the “monte” and takes with it anyone who has committed sexually reprehensible acts. The Priest’s sermons show Nino that his sexuality is not acceptable to the eyes of God. The pressure of the approaching Confirmation ceremony weighs on him as his fascination for the Almamula, who he thinks would accept his sins, grows. Little by little, Nino begins to pray to the Almamula, seeing it as a way of “salvation”, and goes in search of the creature, to be taken by it.

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Good Luck Kekec 1963

Good Luck Kekec 1963

Good Luck Kekec 1963

Good Luck Kekec 1963
Srecno, Kekec! (original title)
1h 18m | Adventure, Family | Release date: December 1, 1963 (Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

Two boys, Kekec and Rozle, come to serve a farmer, with a blind daughter Mojca, as shepherds. As the night falls, the two boys start talking about a woman who lives in the mountains and is supposed to steal children. Her name is Pehta. In the morning, Kekec, Rozle and Mojca go to an Alpine cottage and Kekec promises Mojca that he will find her a remedy for her eyes. As the girl is picking flowers, Pehta arrives and takes Mojca into her cottage. She wants to keep Mojca because of her singing. Pehta is a woman herbalist and she finds a rare flower in the mountain, from which she makes a remedy for Mojca’s eyes. Kekec and Rozle start looking for Mojca and they find Pehta’s cottage. Rozle is so frightened that he runs away, but brave Kekec climbs trough the thatched roof of Pehta’s cottage and runs away with Mojca. Pehta sends her dog – Volk (Wolf) to hunt them down, but they manage to escape it. The timid Rozle tells at home that Pehta’s dog probably ate Kekec and Mojca. Mojca’s father and villagers start looking for them. Pehta’s sees them coming, burns her cottage down and hides. Meanwhile, Kekec brings Mojca home and as she is telling her mother that Pehta has a cure for her blindness, Kekec runs out of the house and lets himself be caught by Pehta. She takes him into her cave and tells him that she would have cured Mojca if he didn’t took her away. She keeps Kekec as a servant and tells Volk to watch him as she leaves to collect flowers. Kekec makes friends with Volk and starts searching the cave for the remedy. Pehta catches him in the act, beats her dog for not obeying her and shows to Kekec that she’s carrying the bottle with the remedy around her neck. The villagers are looking for Kekec, Pehta hears them and Kekec tries to get the bottle, but she throws it in the abyss in anger. Kekec escapes from the cave and finds the bottle undamaged. Pehta sets her dog on him but Volk starts barking on her. Kekec returns to the cave, shows the bottle to Pehta and she tells him, how to use the remedy – just three drops in each eye. Kekec returns home with Volk, find Mojca sleeping and pours the remedy in her eyes. She wakes up and finds out that she can see. Kekec leaves the farm with his dog.

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Gefangene Liebe 1994

Gefangene Liebe 1994

Gefangene Liebe 1994

Gefangene Liebe 1994
1h 32m | Drama | Release date: 1994 (Germany)

Storyline:

Anneliese is living together with her son Florian in a run-down farm. But her exaggerated demands drive him mad. Man and daughter work in the city. The 14-year-old son is supposed to fulfill the mother’s dreams and become a chemist. Still, the boy fits his wishes, but he secretly dreams of becoming a farmer. Then, the situation escalates.

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Wochenendrebellen 2023

Wochenendrebellen 2023

Wochenendrebellen 2023

Wochenendrebellen 2023
1h 49m | Comedy, Drama, Sport | Release date: September 28, 2023 (Germany)

Storyline:

Mirco’s family is advised to go to a special school for Jason, his autistic son. He makes a pact to make every effort to stay in school if Mirco helps him find a favorite football club.

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Magnificat 2023

Magnificat 2023

Magnificat 2023

Magnificat 2023
1h 38m | Comedy, Drama, Crime | Release date: June 21, 2023 (France)

Storyline:

When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing her vocation for years. Dismayed, the bishop decided to launch an investigation and asked the chancellor of the diocese to find out how, why and with what complicity such a deception was possible.

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Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941
Mikaheri no tô (original title)
1h 52m | Drama | Release date: January 30, 1941 (Japan)

Storyline:

Problem kids come to a reformatory school where they live, study and work. Here there are no fences and no one is ever beaten. The kids steal, play pranks, run away and help fix a water problem. Reformed kids introspect and go back home.

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