J’ai voulu rire comme les autres 1980
1h 10m | Family | 16 April 1980
Storyline:
In the last year of the First World War, six French boys in the age of puberty spend their summer holidays by the sea again. Since the fathers are fighting in the war and the mothers are working in hospitals, the children are left to themselves alone. They play war and discover their strengths and weaknesses…
Tartsan Koivula suomalaisessa leppämetsässä 1980
1h 6m | Family | 26 November 1980 (Finland)
Storyline:
A story of four 13-year-olds who start the Tartsan Society. The purpose of the club is to investigate the crimes that have taken place in the locality, which takes young people on a dizzying summer adventure. The film is based on a youth book written by Uolevi Nojonen.
The adventures of a couple of unruly siblings who, one fine day, decide to go out of their way to school and get involved in fanciful adventures in extraordinary worlds based on traditional Portuguese fables that evoke, for their strangeness and surrealism, Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland.
Vincent, in his thirties without children, infiltrates a tribe with mysterious codes and language: the PTA. Finding himself at parent-teacher meetings, school trips, and the end-of-year fair is quite a feat for him.
Martino’s Summer 2010
L’estate di Martino (original title)
1h 30m | Drama | 19 November 2010 (Italy)
Storyline:
The story takes place in the summer of 1980 in Brindisi, Italy. Martino is a young man whose father isn’t giving him enough attention. His older brother and his friends, including Silvia, a young northern Italian who spends her holidays in the south of the country and has a romance with Martino. Young people tend to enter an American military base north, and Martino ends up finding a US military officer, a good friend who teaches him how to surf.
4 Days in May 2011
4 Tage im Mai (original title)
1h 37m | Drama, War | 29 September 2011 (Germany)
Storyline:
A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children’s home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless Soviet captain.
Le baiser sous la cloche 1998
1h 35m | Drama | 9 February 1998 (France)
Storyline:
1962. Joseph, 13 years old, a choirboy and a true “light” of religion, set out to become Pope. Not less. Of Spanish origin, Angela and José, her parents, fled their country and misery to settle in a small village around Perpignan. Angela, sensual and beautiful to damn a saint, is an attentive and possessive mother. Joseph, this only son, she feels that she has received him as a gift from heaven. So she puts all her energy and maternal love overflowing to encourage the vocation of her son, unlike José who wishes for him a “normal” life, a life of man, simply. Pensioner at the junior seminary, Joseph is happy to be called, to be part of the elite, even if the atmosphere is not always the one he imagined. Fortunately, there are Louis and Emile, his two friends, and especially Sister Agnès, a young novice, a music teacher who must make her wishes at the end of the year. She will disturb Joseph by informing him of his uncertainties. Then come the questions: what if this vocation was only the desire of a mother not to share her son with other women? Returned a few days of the seminar for misbehavior, Joseph will have the opportunity to live in the village like other children his age and, perhaps to take taste.