Summertime, Summertime 2021
Summertime, Summertime 2021
16m | Drama, Short | Release date: January 2021 (China)
Storyline:
In the summer of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Qin Huai, who will soon be 10 years old, accidentally learns that his good friend Xiaohe’s father is seriously ill but can’t afford the treatment. To help his good friend, Qinhuai and Xiaohe embark on a journey of growth together. However, things are developing in an unexpected way.
Bad Boys 1961
Bad Boys 1961
Furyô shônen (original title)
1h 29m | Drama | Release date: March 29, 1961 (Japan)
Storyline:
Directed in documentary style about a number of delinquent boys in a reformatory, who were not given scripts and asked to simply be themselves, this movie focuses on the young men and their natural day-to-day. When the protagonist is released he has an opinion regarding the institution, which moulded him. The film is considered one of the first of the new wave movement of Japan and the winner of the Kinema Junpo Award.
Siberian Scout Adventure disk 2
Siberian Scout Adventure disk 2
27m | Adventure | 2000
Description:
Eight fresh-faced youngsters from the Prince Alexei Troop of the Siberian Forest Pathfinders experience the great outdoors in this Baikal film from Russia. These are city boys, some experiencing the wilds of nature for the first time, and it shows in the wonder in their eyes as they explore this beautiful new environment. But much more than that, this is a test of both physical strength and mental fortitude, unlike anything they have ever faced before. The boys are broken into 2-teams, red and blue, given a compass / map and must make their way through the forest to a camp at a distance lake.
Siberian Scout Adventure 2000
Siberian Scout Adventure 2000
1h 2m | Action | 2000
Description:
Eight fresh-faced youngsters from the Prince Alexei Troop of the Siberian Forest Pathfinders experience the great outdoors in this Baikal film from Russia. These are city boys, some experiencing the wilds of nature for the first time, and it shows in the wonder in their eyes as they explore this beautiful new environment. But much more than that, this is a test of both physical strength and mental fortitude, unlike anything they have ever faced before. The boys are broken into 2-teams, red and blue, given a compass / map and must make their way through the forest to a camp at a distance lake.
La révolte des enfants 1992
La révolte des enfants 1992
1h 37m | Drama | Release date: April 22, 1992 (France)
Storyline:
In the 19th century, children — particularly the children of the poor — were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the very least) go to prison, regardless of their age. However, people of conscience were beginning to protest against this situation. The story takes place in a prison for children where conditions are particularly harsh. The warden is a thick-headed martinet who demands complete compliance with the rules, or the children will be brutally dealt with. The assistant warden is a more modern man, and is appalled by the whole institution, but seeks to begin by reforming it. To that end, he has invited a journalist to come and see the conditions that prevail there, in the hopes that she will rouse public opinion against at least this one form of injustice.
Gefangene Liebe 1994
Gefangene Liebe 1994
1h 32m | Drama | Release date: 1994 (Germany)
Storyline:
Anneliese is living together with her son Florian in a run-down farm. But her exaggerated demands drive him mad. Man and daughter work in the city. The 14-year-old son is supposed to fulfill the mother’s dreams and become a chemist. Still, the boy fits his wishes, but he secretly dreams of becoming a farmer. Then, the situation escalates.
Noci sonanti 2019
Noci sonanti 2019
1h 19m | Documentary | Release date: 2020 (Italy)
Storyline:
Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other 65, are the core of a community that renounces every civilising comfort. Damiano Giacomelli and Lorenzo Raponi observe the life of the ‘Noci Sonanti’ over one summer marked by sun-drenched days and newborn cats.
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
1h 44m | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | Release date: March 15, 1972 (United States)
Storyline:
Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is “unstuck in time”, which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as a Chaplain’s assistant for his unit. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teen-aged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the planet Tralfamadore, along with his devoted dog Spot, and Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack – who was not averse to taking off her clothes to further her career – the Tralfamadorians who have put them on display. The more time he spends on Tralfamadore, the more he understands the meaning of what is happening to him.
