Giochi d’estate 2011

Giochi d'estate 2011

Giochi d’estate 2011
2h 21min | Drama, Romance | 8 February 2012 (France)

Storyline:

The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic’s parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father’s traumatizing violent outbursts in games with other children. He tries to teach Marie, who is of his age and suffers from her own relationship with her father, to feel nothing. In fact, both of them are transformed by their experience of the joys and pains of first love. A film about the first steps towards a life of one’s own.

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Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 – 1976

Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 - 1976

Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 – 1976
1h 38min | Drama | 4 March 1976 (Norway)

Storyline:

Peter is telling his story about a special summer, when he was invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He’s been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.

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Brennende blomster 1987

Brennende blomster 1987

Brennende blomster 1987

Brennende blomster 1987
1h 24min | Drama, Romance | 5 March 1987 (Denmark)

Storyline:

The film is about the teenager Hermann (Hølmebakk) who develops a relationship with the middle-aged Rosa (Fjeldstad).

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Alabama Moon 2009

Alabama Moon 2009

Alabama Moon 2009
PG | 1h 39min | Drama, Family | 18 March 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

Moon Blake is raised by his loving but government-paranoid father Oliver in a hidden cave in the Alabama forests. Oliver dies from a leg wound he refuses to have medically treated, so Moon is told to move away, alone, and start a new home in the Alaskan wild-lands. Constable Sanders, however – the mean local cop – finds the boy with his father’s guns, abuses him and has him locked away till majority age for ‘assault’ within Mr. Gene’s grim Pinson home for boys. Moon soon makes friends with shy, sickly Kit and apparent bully Hal, then sets up a mass escape, on which only the trio actually follows through. Sanders fails to catch them, but the unforgiving elements reshuffle the cards dramatically. An uncle is meanwhile found.

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A escondidas 2014

A escondidas 2014

A escondidas 2014
1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 31 August 2016 (France)

Storyline:

At the age of 14 the world around you changes at a dizzying speed. But what if actually it’s you that changing? What if these changes take you away from what up until now, has been your world? Ibrahim and Rafa are going to suffer these changes for themselves, experiencing first love in a way they never could have imagined. And having to keep it Hidden away.

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Novecento aka 1900 (1976)

Novecento aka 1900 (1976)

Novecento aka 1900 (1976)

Novecento aka 1900 (1976)
18 | 5h 17min | Crime, Drama, History | 21 May 1976 (France)

Storyline:

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

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Leave Us Alone 1975

Leave Us Alone 1975

Leave Us Alone 1975

Leave Us Alone 1975
La’ os være (original title)
1h 22min | Drama | 3 February 1975 (Denmark)

Storyline:

A group from a ten to sixteen-year-old Danish educational center breaks the rules there and goes to an uninhabited island in a stolen boat. When the boat disappears, they are left to themselves, and their holiday turns into a nightmare: peer pressure, serious violence, accidents. But for some of them also an experience of love.

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The Armoire 2009

The Armoire 2009

The Armoire 2009

The Armoire 2009
22min | Short, Comedy | 14 September 2009 (Canada)

Storyline:

Adolescents Aaron and Tony are playing a game of hide and seek in Aaron’s house, Tony now the hider and Aaron the seeker. When Aaron can’t find Tony, he gives up. Tony has apparently gone missing, which brings the authorities and news media in on the case. Ultimately Aaron is placed under hypnosis to see if he remembers anything significant about that day leading up to the game of hide and seek. As Aaron remembers backward from that game, he reminisces about an earlier incident in the armoire in his bedroom.

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