Newcastle 2008

Newcastle 2008

Newcastle 2008

Newcastle 2008
1h 47min | Drama | 7 June 2008 (Japan)

Storyline

‘Newcastle’ is a coming-of-age/family drama/surfing movie. 17-year old Jesse lives in the shadow of his older brother Victor’s failure to become surfing’s Next Big Thing. Even when he’s in his natural habitat of magnificent surf breaks, his blue-collar future is brought home by the coal barges that constantly line his horizon. Jesse has the natural skills to surf his way out of this reality and onto the international circuit but can he overcome his equally natural ability to sabotage himself? A momentous weekend away with his mates that includes first love and tragedy leads him to discover what’s really important, and also to the performance of a lifetime.

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Love of siam 2007

Love of siam  2007

Love of siam 2007

Love of siam 2007
Rak haeng Siam (original title)
2h 34min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 22 November 2007 (Thailand)

Storyline

Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy’s older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late teens, the boys meet again. One of them is now the leader of an aspiring boy band whose managing assistant bears a striking resemblance to the lost sister. The boys must deal with their family and social lives and their feelings for each other.

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Overgivelse 1988

Overgivelse 1988

Overgivelse 1988

Overgivelse 1988
Drama | TV Movie 20 September 1988

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Rare Norwegian television movie about how difficult it is to reconcile with destiny: the parents brought the boy to the sanatorium. He does not like to be among patients, because he just got sick neck, what brought him here? He decides to build a raft and escape, because he is not among these patients. What came out of this idea? What if suddenly comes the understanding that you’re one of them?

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Equus 1977

Equus 1977

Equus 1977
2h 17min | Drama, Mystery | October 1977 (UK)

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A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy’s demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

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The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 2005

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 2005

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 2005

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 2005
Ang pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (original title)
1h 40min | Comedy, Drama | 4 April 2007 (France)

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Can a 12-year old lad who wishes he were a girl navigate the mean streets of Manila? Maxi cooks, cleans, and sews for his father and older brothers who are petty criminals. He’s sweet, clever and hardworking, at ease with being gay, pinning a flower in his hair, swinging his hips when he walks, vamping with friends. He’s seen adults hug and kiss and he’s watched romantic movies, so on the verge of puberty, he develops a crush on Victor, a kindly young cop. Maxi’s heart and loyalties are on a collision course: Victor is investigating crimes that lead him to Maxi’s family. In the land of the morning, is there a place for this child of the sun returning?

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India Blues Eight Feelings 2013

India Blues Eight Feelings 2013

India Blues Eight Feelings 2013
1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 24 September 2013 (Greece)

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Synopsis “India Blues” is an edgy, bold and passionate love story between two young men who are sometimes afraid to love each other. Through exploring their experiences and the trivial or important moments in their relationship in real time (their first kiss, their first sexual encounter, their awkward silences, their last hug), we are submerged in their universe of love and the feelings that come with it. Like Jean-Luc Godard once said, “a film should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. But not necessarily in that order”. In taking full advantage of that challenge, lies the unique element of “India Blues”: the feelings the characters experience are not presented to us in sequence, but in the “wrong” order – Pain, Lust, Happiness, Jealousy, Attraction, Peacefulness, Love and Anger, function as eight segments-chapters in the coming together and the tearing apart of two very different people. The intensity of the two characters’ feelings, which is highlightened even more by the fact that we, exactly like them, experience things in real time, draws the spectator in the emotional roller-coaster of a love relationship, with all the joy and pain involved in it.

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