Die Wilden Kerle 2003
Die Wilden Kerle 2003
Die Wilden Kerle: Alles ist gut, solange du wild bist! (original title)
PG | 1h 34min | Family | 2 October 2003 (Germany)
Storyline:
A home-made soccer team of kids have to get ready for a match against the team that has taken the kids’ field to play and won’t give it back unless they lose a match against the kids.
Boy 2012
Boy 2012
TV-14 | 48min | Drama | 29 September 2012 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
“Boy” tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an undocumented Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is living between being seen and being invisible, between his life with his boyfriend, an erotic dancer, and his role as financial provider of his family back home. All this changes when his boyfriend auditions for a dance company and one of his employers commits suicide. A charming photographer shows interest in him. He wants him as a model for a photo series.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002
Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002
Dyskoloi apohairetismoi: O babas mou (original title)
1h 53min | Drama, Family | 27 December 2002 (Greece)
Storyline:
Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne’s stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On the eve of his departure for a long business trip he promises his son that he’ll be back in time to watch the moon landing on TV together, but he is killed in a car accident. While Elias’ mother and his elder brother deal with the loss in their own way, Elias refuses to accept his father’s death. He creates an imaginary world, in which his father is alive. He shares fictitious stories with his friends, he sends letters to his grandmother on behalf of his father and he dreams of places like he did with him. Elias’ mother and his godfather, who do everything to bring him back to reality, take him to a summer house. On the night of the moon landing Elias meets his father in his own way and comes to terms with his loss.
Backwater 2013
Backwater 2013
Tomogui (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 42min | Drama | 7 September 2013 (Japan)
Storyline:
Cannes Film Festival winner Shinji Aoyama creates a chilling atmosphere in this adaptation of an award-winning novel. A young man tries to fight the deadly influence of his violent, abusive dad. Will the sins of the father carry on to the next generation in the bloodline?
Theeb 2014
Theeb 2014
Not Rated | 1h 40min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 19 March 2015 (United Arab Emirates)
Storyline:
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
On the Old Roman Road 2001
On the Old Roman Road 2001
1h 16min | Drama | 27 January 2001 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
Also Wano, carpet-seller, will receive his second, secret life, as light-footed dead-angel for the Turkish politician, as charming terrorist, as loner and successful lover. He prepared the “liquidation” of the Turkish consuls in Rotterdam, and executed them. He lures him with the picture of the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid The Bloody, which he has bought in the auction house ‘Leo Jansen’. Secret connections consist between Wano and the old man of uptown Rotterdam, who presumably finances this terror-attack.
Rope and Boys 1987
Rope and Boys 1987
Nawa to otoko-tachi (original title)
1h | Drama | 1987 (Japan)
Storyline:
Yuji is an university student living with his older brother. When he runs into an old acquaintance on the street, the two begin an affair and Yuji ends up getting drawn into the world of S&M clubs, where men put up elaborate and decadent shows for their customers.
The Painted Bird 2019
The Painted Bird 2019
18 | 2h 49min | Drama, War | 24 October 2019 (USA)
Storyline:
In an unidentified area of war-torn Eastern Europe, a young boy is sent by his parents to live in safety with his aunt. But she dies unexpectedly, so he sets off on a journey to return home. He roams alone in a wild and hostile world in which only local rules, prejudices and superstitions apply. His struggle for virtually physical survival after the war turns into a battle of a different type. A battle that he doesn’t even realize, a fight with himself, a fight for his soul, for his future.
Little Vampire 1968
Little Vampire 1968
Bübchen (original title)
1h 26min | Drama | 21 February 1969 (West Germany)
Storyline:
A strange case baffles the police and the citizens of a German small town. A two-year old girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, guilty ones and a web of lies. It’s Saturday afternoon, and Achim’s parents are invited for a topping-out ceremony. The neighbor’s daughter, Monika (Renate Roland), is the babysitter for Achim (Sascha Urchs) and his little sister Kathrin, but Monika doesn’t take the job too serious. She’d rather go for a ride with her boyfriend. Through a unforeseen row of circumstances, Achim becomes the murderer of his sister, and hides the body in a wrecked car on the scrapyard. When the parents return home, a frantic search for the little child begins. Only the father (Sieghardt Rupp) seems to know the truth.
