Honey 2010

Honey 2010

Honey 2010
Bal (original title)
1h 43min | Drama | 11 February 2010 (Germany)

Storyline:

The young boy Yusuf’s best friend is his father, who supports his family’s modest life with the honey he collects from tall trees in the forests of the remote Turkish countryside. Yusuf is a quiet boy, and his mother is concerned for his future. Perhaps he will follow in his father’s footsteps, or perhaps school will offer him other opportunities. But the honey crop is failing, and Yusuf has trouble learning how to read. The greatest fear strikes when Yusuf’s father doesn’t return home from the forest.

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Lilja 4-ever 2002

Lilja 4-ever 2002

Lilja 4-ever 2002

Lilja 4-ever 2002
16 | 1h 49min | Crime, Drama | 23 August 2002 (Sweden)

Storyline:

While waiting for her mothers reply to take her to the USA, Lilya idles the time away smoking, drinking and having fun with her, too, outcast friend Volodya. In time, the chance of a new life becomes non-existent; her life is going nowhere. Meeting a young man, she then finds a plane ticket in her hand and a new life in Sweden: a job, an apartment and prospects. All is not what it seems. There shall be work, there shall be housing and there shall be no escape. This is the stark, frank and disturbing vision of the life of a young victim of the underground sex trade and in all its tone of realism of abject poverty, despicable actions and of wanting to show that dreaming of a better life is not a crime but that life can shatter the illusion of a happy ending.

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My Queen Karo 2009

My Queen Karo 2009

My Queen Karo 2009
1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 28 October 2009 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Everything is shared in the squat, but not everyone is able to honor these ideals. Karo gets confused because of the internal conflicts that start to divide the group. Karo slowly realizes that nothing can stay the same forever.

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Santa sangre 1989

Santa sangre 1989

Santa sangre 1989
NC-17 | 2h 3min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 24 November 1989 (Italy)

Storyline:

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother. Against his will, he “becomes her arms” and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge.

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Ruggine 2011

Ruggine 2011

Ruggine 2011
1h 49min | Drama | 2 September 2011 (Italy)

Storyline:

In a hot summer, the lives of the children are about to be changed forever when two girls are found raped and murdered. The children know who the suspect is but knowing that the adults will never believe them, they decide to keep quiet. When one of their friends sister disappear, they know they have to take the matter into their own hands.

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Cartouches gauloises 2007

Cartouches gauloises 2007

Cartouches gauloises 2007
1h 32min | Drama | 8 August 2007 (France)

Storyline:

A young Algerian paperboy with friends and associates of all ages on both sides of the conflict experiences history leading up to the March 1962 independence of Algeria, witnesses ruthless violence perpetrated by French and Arabs, sees his French friends depart or die, and tries to relate to his patriotic French soccer pal to the end.

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Genti di Muerti 2014

Genti di Muerti 2014

Genti di Muerti 2014
24min | Short, Fantasy | 30 July 2014 (Spain)

Storyline:

Javier and his father, David, come back to the village before the summer, earlier than expected. His grandma is really sick. Javier is such a special boy that, even the relationship with his own family is sometimes cold and distant…with all of them excepting with Laura, his playground friend since he was a child. The return of Javier to the village coincides with the death of Laura’s grandfather and the arrival of two mysterious visitors that no one in the village would dare to name…the Genti di muerti.

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