Cool Kids Don’t Cry 2012
Achtste-groepers huilen niet (original title)
1h 36min | Drama, Family | 15 February 2012 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
Adaptation of one of Benelux most famous children’s novels. Gutsy middle school student Akkie loves soccer. When Akkie is diagnosed with leukemia, she has to fight for her life. As Akkie grows weaker she also grows closer to the boy she has liked all along.
The Club 2015
El Club (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 28 May 2015 (Chile)
Storyline:
Four catholic priests, now excommunicated, share a secluded house in a small coastal house of Chile where they are are supposed to atone for their sins. Their quiet routine, placed under the supervision of Mother Monica, is disturbed by the coming of a fifth man. The newcomer, a pedophile, appears as a most unwelcome reminder of their own tainted lives…
Happy Log 2016
1h 38min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 2016 (USA)
Storyline:
On the verge of depression following the murder of his father, Cory, a nervous, guilt-ridden 12-year-old “altar boy”, is coaxed by his adventurous best friend, Ben, to prove their manhood by embarking on their first overnight fishing trip out in the wild on the Mississippi Bayou’s Wolf River; but their trip goes awry when the hapless “altar boys” become targets of a mob hit in progress by a cold-blooded assassin who is determined to collect on a gambling debt.
Little Terrors 2014
Not Rated | 1h 43min | Drama | 12 September 2014 (Canada)
Storyline:
A 13-year-old American boy is recruited by terrorists to bomb a U.S. embassy in Delhi. After being brainwashed he is sent to live with a Muslim family prior to the attack. However, the man harboring him begins to play a dangerous game when he attempts to convince the boy not to go through with the bombing.
The Golem 2018
1h 35min | Horror | 24 January 2019 (Israel)
Storyline:
During an outbreak of a deadly plague, a mystical woman must save her tight-knit Jewish community from foreign invaders, but the entity she conjures to protect them is a far greater evil.
The Terence Davies Trilogy 1983
1h 41min | Drama | September 1984 (UK)
Storyline:
Davies’ film is divided into three segments entitled “Children”, “Madonna and Child”, and “Death and Transfiguartion”. The segments tell the life of Robert Tucker. The first segment looks at his birth and formative years in school, an austere boy’s school. The bleak environment is not aided by the loveless, violent domestic life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father’s death has a major impact on him. In the second segment, he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother. In the final segment, he deals with his mother’s death and then faces his own impending doom. As his death approaches he flashes back to his life’s events.
Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns 1985
Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns 1985
1h 23min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7 March 1985 (East Germany)
Storyline:
13-year-old Gritta lives in an old, weathered castle with her father, an impoverished high count. While he works as a passionate inventor on a throne-saving machine for the king, free spirit Gritta enjoys her childhood to the full. But this comes to an end when her father decides to marry the noble Countess Nesselkrautia. She arranges for Gritta to be sent to a convent school. Outraged by the coercion there and the fraudulent machinations of the abbess with the greedy governor Pekavus, Gritta flees into the forest with her friends. There they meet the young prince and become friends with him. Gritta wants to warn the king about Pekavus’ plans, but he is already on her trail.
Up Among the Stars 2018
En las estrellas (original title)
1h 26min | Drama | 31 August 2018 (Spain)
Storyline:
Victor, an unemployed film director, his wife just died and left him a 9-year-old son. The difficulties depressed him so much and he became a drunk. The alcoholism was the only way to allow him to escape into the LaLaLand, the drunken illusions had become so real that he evolved into a great dreamer, telling wonderful stories to his son. His drunkenness also made him a would-be director who thought he himself actually directed those fantastic stories he told his son.
