Journée blanche 2017

Journée blanche 2017

Journée blanche 2017

Journée blanche 2017
16min | Short | 10 June 2017 (France)

Storyline:

Otto and Martha are two teenagers who barely know each other when they have to spend the day together in Otto’s family house. To entertain each other, they start acting as if they are an adult couple. In turn, they overcome their shyness and fall in love.

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White Mane 1953

White Mane 1953

White Mane 1953

White Mane 1953
Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage (original title)
Approved | 47min | Drama, Family | 11 December 1953 (Finland)

Storyline:

A boy comes across a white-haired wild horse in the Camargue. Ranchers seek to capture the horse, but it escapes. What will happen as the boy sets out to find the horse again? The film is set in the gorgeous landscape of the Camargue, a marsh area in the south of France where the river Rhone meets the Mediterranean Sea.

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Something About Alex 2018

Something About Alex 2018

Something About Alex 2018

Something About Alex 2018
Anders (original title)
19min | Short, Drama | 10 June 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

Alex a 14-year-old teenager, develops a close friendship with his older sister’s boyfriend, and must confront the depth of his feelings when the couple announces that they will be moving away. An enigmatic coming-of-age tale that will pull at your heartstrings, emphasizing the importance of supporting youth who bravely proclaim their right to be different to a society that is often merciless and cruel.

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A Man Thing 2001

A Man Thing 2001

A Man Thing 2001

A Man Thing 2001
Meska sprawa (original title)
26min | Drama, Short | 22 March 2002 (Poland)

Storyline:

13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannised by his soccer coach, the boy finds his only friend in an old dying stray dog.

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La ricotta 1963

La ricotta 1963

La ricotta 1963

La ricotta 1963
35min | Short | 19 February 1963 (Italy)

Storyline:

Made as part of the omnibus film Rogapog, this short is a hilarious religious farce. At the Cinecittá film studio a director (played by Orson Wells) begins shooting a film dealing with Christ’s cruxification. Among the cast is a Jesus who has sex with boys in the bushes, and a peasant who plays one of the thieves crucified alongside Jesus – the actor literally dies on the cross, but not of inflicted wounds, but of indigestion caused by too much ice cream.

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