Brainy 2011

Brainy 2011

Brainy 2011

Brainy 2011
25min | Short, Drama | 10 August 2011 (Switzerland)

Storyline:

Brainy is a short drama about 10 year old Brian, an imaginative boy who deals with the loss of his grandfather by constructing a fantastic world. In Brian’s imagination his Grandpa is still alive, living up in space. Brian has a mission to collect up dead animals, and the dead animals can be launched up to the stars to live again. That is until the day Brian meets Denice, 14, his slightly older neighbour, from whom he learns that no matter how much we wish for them, some things just aren’t possible.

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Le bel été 1914 (1996)

Le bel été 1914 (1996)

Le bel été 1914 (1996)

Le bel été 1914 (1996)
1h 57min | Drama | 21 August 1996 (France)

Storyline:

A couple take their son for the holidays to an uncle, so short of money that he rents part of his big isolated house to a businessman whose wife and daughters are there on holiday too. An affair develops among the adults, while the children start their own explorations. Deaths, disappearances and financial ruin follow as the world drifts into war.

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100 days Before The Command 1991

100 days Before The Command 1991

100 days Before The Command 1991

100 days Before The Command 1991
Sto dney do prikaza (1991)
1h 11min | Drama | February 1991 (Soviet Union)

Storyline

Five young Soviet Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other. Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring, this film is Hussein Erkenov’s courageous and stinging indictment of Communisum. Banned by the Soviet censors upon its initial release the film had to be smuggled out of the country to make its world wide premier at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival.

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Napola Before The Fall 2004

Napola Before The Wall 2004

Napola Before The Wall 2004
Napola – Elite für den Führer (original title)
14 | 1h 57min | Drama, Sport, War | 4 July 2004 (Czech Republic)

Storyline

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer’s boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father’s objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. During his year in seventh column (fifth form), this innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area’s governor, is central to this education; a night in the forest hunting for escaped Russian POWs brings things to a head.

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Initiation 2009

Initiation 2009

Initiation 2009
Blutsfreundschaft (original title)
1h 35min | Drama | 5 November 2009 (Austria)

Storyline:

16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he reminds him of his lost love.

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Little Gay Boy, chrisT is Dead 2012

Little Gay Boy, chrisT is Dead 2012

Little Gay Boy, chrisT is Dead 2012

Little Gay Boy, chrisT is Dead 2012
30min | Short, Drama | 14 October 2012 (France)

Storyline:

Jean Christophe lives with his mother, an English prostitute in Paris. He dreams of becoming a model. Over the course of a day, JC endures a series of abusive encounters that will change him forever. He goes from innocence to experience as he and his dreams are destroyed by those around him. The violence of the film is accentuated by the use of BDSM, Performance Art and Dance

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