Chin Up, Dude! 2022

Chin Up, Dude! 2022

Chin Up, Dude! 2022

Chin Up, Dude! 2022
Steh auf du Sau! (original title)
29m | Short, Sport | Release date: January 20, 2022 (Germany)

Storyline:

Geri has made the leap from the junior team to the first squad. But he can’t find the words to express how greatly he’s intimidated by soccer, the search for meaning, and the pressure to perform.

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On Golden Pond 1981

On Golden Pond 1981

On Golden Pond 1981

On Golden Pond 1981
1h 49m | Drama | Release date: February 12, 1982 (United States)

Storyline:

The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea — whom they haven’t seen for years — feels she must be there for Norman’s birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance’s son. When she returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate at last?

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Paradise 1982

Paradise 1982

Paradise 1982

Paradise 1982
1h 40m | Adventure, Romance | Release date: May 7, 1982 (Canada)

Storyline:

In the Victorian period, two teenagers, David and Sarah, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, the white slave agent known as the Jackal raids them, mainly to add the beautiful young Sarah to his harem. Only David and Sarah narrowly escape, and all the others are slayed in the massacre. Their flight leads them to a beautiful oasis – their paradise – where they discover love and sex. However, the Jackal has not given up on Sarah yet, and David must lure him to his death, or be killed by him.

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Keep The River On Your Right 2000

Keep The River On Your Right 2000

Keep The River On Your Right 2000

Keep The River On Your Right 2000
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (original title)
1h 33m | Documentary, Adventure, Romance | Release date: April 15, 2000 (United States)

Storyline:

In 1955, while a Fulbright scholar, a Manhattan painter named Tobias Schneebaum spent seven months in the Amazon basin with the Harakambut. When he returned to the US, he could no longer paint. What happened? Nearly 45 years later, filmmakers want Tobias, now 78 and suffering from Parkinson’s, to return to Peru. He refuses but allows that he will revisit the Asmat in New Guinea where he spent an idyllic time years before. That trip goes well, including a serendipitous meeting with Aipit, an aging native and once Tobias’ friend and lover. Tobias then agrees to go to Peru to look for the people whom he joined on a murderous raiding party. The scars of war remain as does fear.

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Anatomy Of A Fall 2023

Anatomy Of A Fall 2023

Anatomy Of A Fall 2023

Anatomy Of A Fall 2023
Anatomie d’une chute (original title)
2h 32m | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Release date: August 23, 2023 (France)

Storyline:

The story begins when Samuel is found dead in the snow outside the isolated chalet where he lived with his wife Sandra, a German writer, and their partially-sighted 11-year-old son Daniel. An investigation leads to a conclusion of “suspicious death”: it’s impossible to know for sure whether he took his own life or was killed. Sandra is indicted, and we follow her trial which pulls the couple’s relationship apart. Daniel is caught in the middle: between the trial and their home life, doubts take their toll on the mother-son relationship.

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Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012
1h 33m | Documentary, Biography | Release date: April 19, 2013 (Austria)

Storyline:

Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl at the beginning of the 1970’s. In my fathers, my mother and me the director Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, embarks on a personal journey into his past. Including archive material made public for the first time in this film, the director confronts himself and his mother with the question ‘What is family?’.

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Wolfkin 2022

Wolfkin 2022

Wolfkin 2022

Wolfkin 2022
Kommunioun (original title)
1h 30m | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | Release date: August 8, 2023 (United States)

Storyline:

Single mother Elaine is disturbed by her son Martin’s aggressive behaviour, she visits his late father’s estranged family in small-town Luxembourg, which hides a much darker nature. When she realizes that Martin could become like them, Elaine is forced into a desperate fight for her son’s future.

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