Jelgava 94 (2019)

Jelgava 94 (2019)

Jelgava 94 (2019)

Jelgava 94 (2019)
1h 20min | Adventure, Drama | 20 September 2019 (Latvia)

Storyline:

“JELGAVA’94” is a film, which with equal parts of coming of age film and a portrait of the cultural chaos that reigned in former communist states during the 1990s, serves as a stark reminder of what has been left behind when border countries such as Latvia, regained their independence. The film is based on the novel by Janis Jonevs – a winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014.

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Las olas 2017

Las olas 2017

Las olas 2017

Las olas 2017
1h 27min | Drama | 14 June 2018 (Uruguay)

Storyline:

Exhausted after leaving work, Alfonso goes to the beach and dives into the sea. Coming to the surface, he finds himself on another beach, in another time. His parents are waiting for him, calling to him from the water’s edge. Alfonso sees and understands everything from his adult’s body, even if they treat him like an 11 year old. This is the beginning of a fantastic voyage through the different holidays in his life, where the situations come one after the other with no chronological order, interrupting with a tone of intimacy and entertaining nostalgia his meetings with girlfriends, teenage and childhood pals, his daughter, and his loneliness.

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Tough Love 2015

Tough Love 2015

Tough Love 2015

Tough Love 2015
Härte (original title)
1h 29min | Biography, Drama | 23 April 2015 (Germany)

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A karate expert recounts his early life, his turbulent childhood, rife with sexual abuse and a career as a pimp. Andreas “Karate Andy” Marquardt’s subsequent rehabilitation treatment, enables him to start life again with the one girl who suffered his worst abuse. He runs a karate school today for children to prove that its possible to turn over a new leaf.

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Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998
1h 49min | Drama | 14 October 1998 (Estonia)

Storyline:

Quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young mute boy is sent from the mainland to keep him company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about his younger days as a missionary in Africa.

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Boy’s Choir 2000

Boy's Choir 2000

Boy’s Choir 2000

Boy’s Choir 2000
Dokuritsu shônen gasshô-dan (original title)
2h 9min | Drama, Music | 10 February 2000 (Germany)

Storyline:

The lives of two orphan boys begin to intertwine when the choir and the feelings they share bring them closer to one another.

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Thieves 2007

Thieves 2007

Thieves 2007

Thieves 2007
Ladrones (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 22 June 2007 (Spain)

Storyline:

The main character is a nameless boy (Juan Jose Ballesta) who was taught to steal wallets by his absent mother. He is able to do the trick effortlessly, using his “earnings” to survive while he looks for his mom. As he runs into an antique store owner, he might have found a trace that will lead to her. First, however, he will have to pull off a few “jobs” for the store owner, and he can’t do it alone: enter a nameless girl (Maria Valverde) who gets to learn all the secret techniques the young boy has been using all his life.

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Alice Júnior 2019

Alice Júnior 2019

Alice Júnior 2019

Alice Júnior 2019
1h 27min | Comedy | 17 September 2020 (USA)

Storyline:

Alice Junior is a fiction feature film, a teen comedy that tells the story of Alice, a 17 years old teenager transgender (with a lot of personality!), that moves from Recife, a big town from Northeast of Brazil, to a fictional small town called Araucárias do Sul, from South of Brazil. Do you remember your first kiss? I bet you do. And it would turn into a good story? So imagine the first kiss of a transgender teenager, who leaves the big city and moves to a conservative small town in the south of Brazil, and is registered in a school that seems to have come out of the dark ages. All of it because of the perfumer Jean search, Alice’s father, for the aromatic essence of the legendary Imperial Flower, exclusive of the region. This is the story of Alice Junior, a transgender girl full of life, who wants to give her first kiss, but first, she just want to be who she really is.

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