Hong Kong Rebels 2014
Hong Kong Rebels 2014
Stories Forlorn (original title)
1h 25min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 27 August 2016 (USA)
Storyline:
Struggling to find answers to his brother’s questionable suicide, a sixteen year old aspiring writer is lured into the underground world of Hong Kong, as the Chinese march their way over the border during the last summer under British rule, 1997.
Retablo 2017
Retablo 2017
1h 35min | Drama | 16 May 2019 (Peru)
Storyline:
Segundo Paucar, a 14 year old boy wants to become a master story-box maker just like his father to carry on with the family legacy. On his way to a community celebration in the Andes, Segundo accidentally observes his father in a situation that shatters his whole world. Trapped in a chauvinistic environment, Segundo will try to deal in silence with all that is happening to him.
Synonyms 2019
Synonyms 2019
Synonymes (original title)
Unrated | 2h 3min | Comedy, Drama | 25 October 2019 (USA)
Storyline:
Yoav, a young Israeli man, has a one-way ticket to Paris believing France to be his salvation from what he sees as the madness of his country. Things don’t get off to a great start as he discovers his living arrangement is unfit for living, yet his grandiose expectations leave no room for a failure to adapt. Wholehearted in his resolution to erase his Jewish-Israeli origins, he refuses to speak Hebrew and obsessively studies his constant companion, a French dictionary. He develops a particularly strong bond with his privileged neighbor who symbolizes – to Yoav – the French promise of fraternité. Nothing can extinguish Yoav’s determination to be thoroughly French. Based on the real-life experiences of writer-director Nadav Lapid, SYNONYMS explores the conflicted realm of fervent Nationalism and the challenges of putting down roots in a foreign land.
Lodi 2018
Lodi 2018
1h 20min | Drama | 2018
Storyline:
Lodi is Idol spelled backward. Franco (JM Martinez) is a maintenance man in a condo by day and service boy by night. He is obsessed with Hearthrob, Brent (Ace Toledo).
His obsession leads to fulfillment, but at what cost.
The Sadness of Mrs. Snajdrova 2008
The Sadness of Mrs. Snajdrova 2008
Smutek paní Snajderové (original title)
1h 44min | Drama, Romance | 14 March 2008 (Albania)
Storyline:
It is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, together with a group of Czech students, is shooting his graduate movie on a motorcycle factory, in the small market-town of Cesky Sternberk, in then Czechoslovakia. Coming from a country that is completely isolated from the rest of Europe, he is fascinated by the lifestyle, society and “erotic exuberance” of the Czech golden youth, yet feeling strong links with his family in his homeland. He falls in love with a married woman (Anna Geislerová), the wife of a police superintendent (Paolo Buglioni) and is insecure about his future.
Pastoral Hide and Seek 1974
Pastoral Hide and Seek 1974
Den-en ni shisu (original title)
1h 44min | Drama, Fantasy | 28 December 1974 (Japan)
Storyline:
A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
I Was at Home, But 2019
I Was at Home, But 2019
Ich war zuhause, aber (original title)
1h 45min | Drama | 14 February 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
The Shame 2009
The Shame 2009
La vergüenza (original title)
1h 30min | Drama | 30 April 2009 (Spain)
Storyline:
A young married couple, not knowing how to deal with their new adopted son’s behavior, decides to give him back.
Primary! (2010)
Primary! (2010)
¡Primaria! (original title)
1h 47min | Comedy | 24 October 2010 (Japan)
Storyline:
The very realistic life from deep inside the entrails of a Primary school, with explosive results.
