Lost in the Sun 2015
1h 35m | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5 November 2015 (USA)
Storyline:
The story of John, a small-time crook, who finds an unlikely accomplice in Louis, a newly-orphaned teenage boy. As their open-road adventure progresses and John drags the kid on a string of robberies, the pair forge an unexpected and powerful bond.
Choose Connor 2007
1h 49m | Drama | 12 October 2007 (USA)
Storyline:
Idealistic 15-year old Owen gets the chance of a lifetime to be the youth spokesman for U.S. Senate Candidate Lawrence Connor, only to be exploited in a fierce campaign of TV and radio ads, posters, interviews, and speaking engagements in the cut throat media-image-is-all world of American politics.
Tomodachi 1974
1h 26m | Drama | 24 July 1974 (Japan)
Storyline:
Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate Prefecture two years ago, is a gloomy girl who suffers from asthma due to the polluted air in Kawasaki and is ostracized by her class. Shinta is placed next to Yoshiko in class and their stories will take a turn.
Whistler, a gay conversion camp, has been in operation by the same family going back generations. Currently the camp is operated by Owen Whistler and his wife, Dr. Cora Whistler, played by Kevin Bacon and Carrie Preston respectively. There’s a small staff of four, other than the Whistlers. An activities director named Amy, her gay-conversion camp alumni turned athletics director boyfriend Zane, the groundskeeper Balthazar, and Molly the camp counselor who uncovers the horrors of Whistler Camp at the bequest of camper Jordan. A fifth employee emerges as a decoy within the campers. Suddenly, employees are picked off in a murder streak by an unknown assailant.
Apprenticeship of the Inventor Polz 1982
Ucna leta izumitelja Polza (original title)
1h 28m | Comedy | 22 March 1982 (Yugoslavia)
Storyline:
Jani, called just Polz by his fellows, is a sincere elementary schoolboy. He likes his schoolmate Hojka, but especially drawn to inventiveness. He is suported by his mother, his schoolmate Hojka and Fitipaldi. The rest of them, on the other hand his father, a teacher of physics at the top of list, show no recognition of his efforts whatsoever. When seeminghly on the verge of his first success, his device explodes and thus concludes his life of home expirimentation. Polz remains a kind of rebel and fanatic in the eyes of adults, but his younger brother is already promising to follow in his footsteps.
Amissa Anima 2021
15m | Short, Drama | 4 June 2022 (Australia)
Storyline:
In the early 1980’s in St Kilda, a network of pedophiles preyed on street kids as young as 10 years old. The boys who survived this trauma, now as adults have shared their stories and collaborated in writing a short screen drama in a journey to personal and social healing. Four boys survive on the night streets of St Kilda in the 1980s, turning tricks for a feed and drugs. The fragile balance is broken when an act of betrayal pushes them to perform an unspeakable act.
Thomas, a 17-year-old high school student, finds himself attracted to Esteban, another boy from his school. The rumor of Thomas’s homosexuality is spreading fast, and he begins to suffer the gaze of others.
Softie 2021
Petite nature (original title)
1h 33m | Drama | 9 March 2022 (France)
Storyline:
Follows ten year-old Johnny who stands out in different aspects way beyond his age. Things change when his new teacher sees his potential, believes in him and wants to open a new world to him.