Unter der Sonne 2006
1h | Drama | 25 January 2006 (Germany)
Storyline:
August 1984. During summer vacation Victor stays with his aunt and cousin. The incident at the bridge might not have happened, if it wasn’t for his crush on his fifteen-year-old cousin Denise or his fear of the neighbors dog.
Pompei 2019
Pompéi (original title)
1h 35m | Drama | 26 August 2020 (France)
Storyline:
Victor (Aliocha Schneider), who is left devastated by his father’s desertion. He cares for his little brother Jimmy while scraping by through the theft of artifacts from nearby archaeological sites. Here, he is under the watchful eye of Toxou (Vincent Rottiers), a self-appointed leader, and flanked by other vagrant children in an environment devoid of care, intimacy, and providence – and with strange, strictly imposed rules. The arrival of Billie (Garance Marillier) awakens Victor, but her unbridled romanticism threatens his community of lost misfits. As tensions rise, Victor must choose between loyalty and love. Meanwhile, Jimmy eagerly awaits his 13th birthday, which is to be marked by a barbaric coming-of-age ritual all the youth must undertake. Moments pass; an hourglass is turned over; time is running out.
Streetchild 1991
Gossenkind (original title)
1h 28m | Drama | 9 April 1992 (Germany)
Storyline:
Axel is 14 years old, male prostitute, living in Düsseldorf. His mother drinks and her friends abuses him. He is sent to a bar to pick up customers. There he meets Karl-Heinz, and a loving relationship begins.
C’est la vie 1990
La Baule-les-Pins (original title)
1h 50m | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 14 February 1990 (France)
Storyline:
Summer 1958. Frédérique and Sophie go on vacation as they do every year to La Baule, where they find their uncle, Léon, nice and loud mouth, their aunt Bella, pregnant, and their little cousins. Like every year? Not quite. This year, Léna, their mother, is still staying in Lyon for mysterious reasons. If Sophie’s six-year-old’s don’t pay attention any more, Frédérique’s thirteen-year-old noticed a discomfort between Mom and Dad. In fact, nothing is going well. Léna can no longer support life with Michel, her husband, and is in love with a young artist, Jean-Claude. He comes to join Léna as soon as she arrives and finds her every evening on the beach, in her tent. The smoldering crisis does not prevent children from doing stupid things (setting fire to the Mickey Club, poisoning goldfish with suppositories), nor from experiencing their first emotional emotions. One day, Michel arrives. Things are going very badly, and Frédérique is forced to intervene to separate him from his mother. Lena then announces her decision to divorce the children. Michel will try to convince her one last time, but in vain. At the end of the holidays, Léna and the two little girls do not return to Lyon.
Summer Rebels 2020
1h 33m | Family | 13 August 2020 (Slovakia)
Storyline:
Slovakian school boy Jonas (11) won’t take no for an answer from his widow mother to spend the Summer holiday with his cool paternal grandfather, widower Bernard. The old man isn’t amused to find out being tricked, but still enjoys his company, only won’t let him have the rowing boat the kid knows was around and wants to take to the river. Jonas also finds a local friend his age, Alex, to play and prank and plot to get the/a boat, until Jonas learns Berard’s true trauma with it.
Boys Soccer Club 2009
Meninos de Kichute (original title)
1h 38m | Adventure, Drama, Family | 2009
Storyline:
In the nineteen seventies, right after Brazil became three times world champion, the best outfit for kids to play soccer was to wear a pair of Kichute, a simple soccer tennis shoes made with cleats on the sole. Every kid in the village who wants to be part of the boys soccer club had to wear them. And that throws Beto into a right of passage test. He has to prove he’s ready to face his own problems at his school’s bulling attacks, his soccer games rematch against kids from other villages, and most important, he has to deal with his father’s demand, who wants him to go to work after school instead of playing soccer. Beto’s passion for his dreams drives him through a teen adventure to become a boy growing up with an unforgettable life experience.
Last Summer 1969
1h 35m | Drama | 10 June 1969 (USA)
Storyline:
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people–a girl and two guys–become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio’s newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.