Star Boys 2017

Star Boys 2017

Star Boys 2017

Star Boys 2017
Kaiken se kestää (original title)
1h 22min | Drama | February 2017 (Sweden)

Storyline:

The movie tells what happens when sexual revolution arrives into a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland, as seen by the 13-year-old Star Boy singers who are forced to observe their parents’ sexual liberation and its consequences at too close range. It’s a powerful story of two families of architects being torn apart by crumbling of moral conceptions and the parents’ endless need for love and freedom. After a fatal toga party, no one and nothing is the same, and the boys’ confusion erupts violently – Even though Star Boys deals with heavy themes, it is ultimately a warm and positive survival story that portrays the persistence and capacity of children to get over even most difficult experiences in life.

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Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992

Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992

Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992

Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992
1h 18min | Drama | 12 August 1992 (Estonia)

Storyline:

A boy, nicknamed Lumumba after a famous African freedom fighter, arrives in a sleepy little Estonian town. His guardian aunt has taken a position there as cultural coordinator. At school he meets Elsa and Rein, who lost his mother recently, and together they go through the first emotional blast of adolescence.

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Show Me Love 1998

Show Me Love 1998

Show Me Love 1998

Show Me Love 1998
Fucking Åmål (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 29min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 23 October 1998 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Åmål is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her but is too shy to do anything about it. For a number of reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes’ birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl’s night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own feelings toward Agnes.

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Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998
Los amantes del Círculo Polar (original title)
R | 1h 52min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 28 August 1998 (Spain)

Storyline:

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.

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The Flying Classroom 2003

The Flying Classroom 2003

The Flying Classroom 2003

The Flying Classroom 2003
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (original title)
1h 50min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 16 January 2003 (Germany)

Storyline:

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.

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Rolling Elvis 2019

Rolling Elvis 2019

Rolling Elvis 2019

Rolling Elvis 2019
1h 30min | Comedy, Family | 7 January 2019 (Colombia)

Storyline:

It’s 1985 and while the country is focused in the victories of the national cyclists in the Tour of France, life changes in the blink of an eye for Elvis Antonio, a 12 year old boy passionate for pro cycling and her ex-hippie mom, a big Elvis Presley fan; when Elvis skips school to watch TV and is caught, her mom forces him to enter the school talent show dressed as Elvis Presley, as punishment. Elvis Antonio runs away and starts a painful but hilarious journey that leads him to discover the biggest secret his family keeps.

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