A Story of Children and Film 2013
1h 46min | Documentary | 4 April 2014 (UK)
Storyline:
A Story of Children and Film is the world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. It’s passionate, poetic, portrait of the adventure of childhood: its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness: as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries. A story of children and film is an eye opener, a landmark film and a celebration of both childhood and the movies.
A Letter of Fire 2005
Aksharaya (original title)
2h 16min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | September 2005 (Spain)
Storyline:
The 12-year-old son of a Magistrate is accused of murder, after having mistook a prostitute for a mugger while hiding in an abandoned building and fearing for his life. His parents hide him from the authorities, amid themes of incest.
La sombra del ciprés es alargada 1990
1h 40min | Drama | 25 May 1990 (Spain)
Storyline:
In Ávila in 1929, little Pedro goes to live with his tutor at the home of Don Mateo, a self-taught teacher who will deeply influence the boy with his teachings on the relationship between life and death. Don Mateo takes care of his education, his wife and daughter, Doña Gregoria and Martina, they become the family that Pedro does not have and his new roommate and studies, Alfredo, his soul friend. The life of the provinces, the relations with their companions and the experiences lived in this early stage will definitely mark the life of young Pedro.
Otec 1982
Otec 1982
1h 30min | Family | 1 March 1982 (Czechoslovakia)
Storyline:
Small Yozko, who lives with his mother, dreams of a real father, whose ideal is embodied in a tractor motorcyclist on Formula nickname. However, his mother perceives cheerful cool formula, finding it, like many villagers, frivolous. Friendship Formula fills the boy his father’s absence, and Yozko increasingly tied to his friend. Suddenly received a telegram from the actual Yozko father, his mother will have to take a difficult decision, but life itself makes adjustments …
Standing Up 2013
PG | 1h 33min | Drama | 16 August 2013 (USA)
Storyline:
Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake – victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they decide to take off, on the run together. What follows is a three day odyssey of discovery and self-discovery.
Pianke 1983
Pianke 1983
1h 30min | Family | TV Movie 9 January 1983
Storyline:
The story of a young German boy and his father who befriend a Jewish family.
Marhulový lekvár 1988
55min | Drama | TV Movie 1988
Storyline:
Television adaptation of F. Karinthy’s story about how important it is to have a sense of home. The apricot jeweler symbolizes the home, family well-being, which the little boy Ferko, living with his parents in a Hungarian town of the 30’s of the 20th century, desperately hopes for. A mother with an unfulfilled desire to become a famous pianist and a father with an even more distant dream to be a world-famous and wealthy writer to a son have no time or even a loving word. His loving companion is only Manci, who, however, leaves for misunderstanding with his lords. Ferko remains alone, disappointed and reluctant to accept the friendship of a new maid of Raza. But he also has his great dream, and Rosa will help him meet him.
Kocicí princ 1979
1h 19min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | September 1979 (Czechoslovakia)
Storyline:
The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five – years old daughter Terezka. Radek takes his cat Líza with him. A fully loaded truck moves through the country which is in spring blossoms, gradually changing into a snow-covered land. Children’s imagination creates from real experiences magic stories – a fairy-tale grandpa takes them to a new castle, the children fear a black-horse rider who – as the grandpa and the cleaning lady assert she hates cats.
Jestem 2005
1h 33min | Drama | 4 November 2005 (Poland)
Storyline
A self-reliable 11-year-old boy runs away from children’s home to be with his dysfunctional mother. She doesn’t want him back so he starts living on an old barge.
