In an alternative 1990s equal parts Yorgos Lanthimos and Todd Solondz (but gentler), an awkward young teen must complete a school requirement in which students wear electronic collars that detach only upon engaging in their first kiss.
Hadaka no tenshi 1981
1h 35m | Family | 1981 (Japan)
Storyline:
Ruriko is concerned when her younger brother Ryo, who has a mental disability, comes to the same school, because the boy has the habit of undressing totally on many occasions.
But Ruriko’s classmates learn to think about people with disabilities and build friendships while interacting with Ryo who has a ” Heart of Gold”. He wants to help everyone and all the time. For him it doesn’t matter whether it is a disabled or a healthy person.
A young mother, Von struggles to raise her son Jackson, who is affected by high-functioning autism. Facing social problems at school and challenged by his own disability, Jackson loses his self-esteem and ambition, abandoning his favorite passion: sketching. Von and her husband must put aside their own mounting financial and personal issues to give Jackson the strength and inspiration to pick up his pencil again.
Nobody’s Child 2021
L’enfant de personne (original title)
1h 38m | Biography, Drama | 17 February 2021 (Belgium)
Storyline:
Lyes, a young boy, is brutally torn away from Emilie, the foster mother who took in him as a baby, and who nevertheless wishes to adopt him. The child thus finds himself confronted with the violence of the homes of the ASE(CPS in USA), which refuses to cut the link with the biological mother, yet unable to take care of him. Agathe, Emilie’s sister, has never abandoned the child. She will fight against the system to try to maintain a link with him, determined to take him home to help him rebuild …
Hornets’ Nest 1970
1h 50m | Action, Drama, War | 9 September 1970 (USA)
Storyline:
A commando unit is dropped behind the German lines in Italy and its mission is to blow up a strategic dam. However, the unit is ambushed and only its leader survives. He is picked up by a ragtag group of local youths, who strike a bargain with him–they will help him blow the dam if he will help them get revenge on the Germans, who have taken over their village and killed their parents.
Beslan: Three Days in September 2006
1h 15m | Documentary | 1 May 2006 (USA)
Storyline:
In September 2004, Chechen rebels occupied a school in the small Russian city of Beslan, taking some 1,200 people-most of them children-hostage. At the end of three days, over 330 were dead.
A Higher Law 2021
Balaur (original title)
2h 3m | Thriller | 28 November 2021 (India)
Storyline:
Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.
Two Deaths of Henry Baker 2020
1h 34m | Crime, Thriller | 25 January 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
When the famous outlaw Henry Baker is released from prison after 25 years, old friends and enemies are waiting for him. The son he left behind, entrusted to watch over his ill-gotten riches. A bearded vagrant with a pistol and a decades-old bullet scar in his stomach. An alcohol soaked deputy with half an ear on one side. And a burned out street hustler with a sick mother and a festering vendetta. They trail Henry to a dilapidated hotel where he plans to reunite with his son and the secret bag of gold he left behind.