Supernatural 2014

Supernatural 2014

Supernatural 2014
Nua dhamma chat (original title)
1h 46min | Drama, Sci-Fi | 24 January 2014 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

In a futurist world, the Thai kingdom has been transformed by ‘The Leader’ into ‘the Realm of people who have done good deeds and earned merits’. It’s a nice place to be, even though the inhabitants are plagued by an indefinable nostalgia. In the old days, people could at least touch each other. Although the Realm has reached version 2.0, technical possibilities remain limited. This wondrous story of the future is interwoven with stories set in the present and past. According to Pansittivorakul, known for his independently-produced and taboo-breaking documentaries on homosexuality and politics, his first feature is science fiction, yet it is about today’s Thailand. For instance he criticizes the need for religion and superstition. But in the end, this very idiosyncratic, homo-erotically charged essay is above all about time: ‘Time influences everything. The past has to do with the present, and the present is linked to the future.

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Vitus 2006

Vitus 2006

Vitus 2006
PG | 1h 40min | Drama, Music | 7 December 2006 (Israel)

Storyline:

The film tells the story of a highly-gifted boy whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him – they want him to become a pianist. However, one day the boy, Vitus, is no longer willing to comply with his parents’ plans and ambitions because he wants to follow his own star.

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The Everlasting Secret Family 1988

The Everlasting Secret Family 1988

The Everlasting Secret Family 1988
1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 3 March 1988 (Australia)

Storyline:

A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.

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Boy A 2007

Boy A 2007

Boy A 2007
R | 1h 42min | Drama | 4 September 2008 (Singapore)

Storyline:

A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy weighs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past.

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Entre nos 2009

Entre nos 2009

Entre nos 2009
1h 20min | Drama | 25 April 2009 (USA)

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A story based on facts which offers a fresh take on the issue of new immigrants in the United States. Mariana totes her two children from Colombia to reunite with her husband in Queens, New York. Her life is devastatingly turned around when her husband abandons the family. The woman and her kids have to fend for themselves in a foreign country. Mariana desperately searches for work. In the end, she resourcefully navigates a surprising avenue for making some money, the city’s recycling.

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Reel 2013

Reel 2013

Reel 2013

Reel 2013
13min | Short, Drama | 21 March 2014 (Sweden)

Storyline:

It is the last day before Victor has to move to another city with his parents. So he and his best friend Robert do all the things they liked to do together so much: skateboarding, spraying, hanging out. But something is different this time.

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Ups & Downs 1981

Ups & Downs 1981

Ups & Downs 1981
1h 37min | Comedy

User review:

I only took the time to track down this film, because one of the writers is my headmaster at my private school. He attended that same school as a child and has also taught there. This movie is representitive of our school. A North American Co-Ed School with British roots; strict but with heart.

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