Koi kizuna no sato 2012

Koi kizuna no sato 2012

Koi kizuna no sato 2012

Koi kizuna no sato 2012
57m | Drama | Release date: 2012 (Japan)

Storyline:

Twelve year old Osamu Hirano is in love with his classmate Rio, but he doesn’t have courage to confess his love to her. One day he learns that she is going out with Shuichi and this makes him very depressed. Shuichi is also a classmate, but unlike Osamu, he is very smart and also good at sports. Meanwhile, Osamu’s 21 year old sister Yumi, who years ago ran away to the big city of Nagoya, suddenly turns up with her fiancé, Kenji Yamaoka, a 45 year old ethnologist. Unsurprisingly, her parents have problems with Yumi’s choice of husband, particularly since he is the same age as her father and appears to have major health problems to boot. Yumi’s sudden reappearance, after years of silence, and her insistence on marrying a man more than twice her age, predictably throws the family into turmoil. Both Yumi and Osamu have problems addressing love, the deeper they fall into it, the more difficulty they have expressing their true feelings.

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Postel 1998

Postel 1998

Postel 1998

Postel 1998
1h 30m | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | Release date: January 29, 1998 (Czech Republic)

Storyline:

An erotically-charged drama by the late Park Chul-soo, intertwining stories of three characters whose joy, passion and despair played out on the same bed are tangled like a puzzle.

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Birds Without A Nest 1996

Birds Without A Nest 1996

Birds Without A Nest 1996

Birds Without A Nest 1996
Ptitsy bez gnyozd (original title)
1h 29m | Biography, Drama | Release date: 1996 (Belarus)

Storyline:

A film based on Belarusian poet Larisa Geniyush’s memoir. Despite living through the difficult times and being in emigration, she fought for freedom in her homeland and expressed devotion to the nation and it’s language.

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Smil mand 1972

Smil mand 1972

Smil mand 1972

Smil mand 1972
1h 11m | Family | Release date: December 15, 1972 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Teenage Ole is sent to boarding school by his single mother so he can learn more about life as he goes through puberty. But he finds the other boys just have their own problems.

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Body Switch 1995

Body Switch 1995

Body Switch 1995

Body Switch 1995
Farligt venskab (original title)
1h 28m | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | Release date: October 6, 1995 (Denmark)

Storyline:

An elite sports doctor with 2 months to live offers to help a basketball team, so as to find a healthy boy to switch bodies with. A teenager wakes up to find himself in the old doctor’s dying body.

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Keep The River On Your Right 2000

Keep The River On Your Right 2000

Keep The River On Your Right 2000

Keep The River On Your Right 2000
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (original title)
1h 33m | Documentary, Adventure, Romance | Release date: April 15, 2000 (United States)

Storyline:

In 1955, while a Fulbright scholar, a Manhattan painter named Tobias Schneebaum spent seven months in the Amazon basin with the Harakambut. When he returned to the US, he could no longer paint. What happened? Nearly 45 years later, filmmakers want Tobias, now 78 and suffering from Parkinson’s, to return to Peru. He refuses but allows that he will revisit the Asmat in New Guinea where he spent an idyllic time years before. That trip goes well, including a serendipitous meeting with Aipit, an aging native and once Tobias’ friend and lover. Tobias then agrees to go to Peru to look for the people whom he joined on a murderous raiding party. The scars of war remain as does fear.

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Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012
1h 33m | Documentary, Biography | Release date: April 19, 2013 (Austria)

Storyline:

Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl at the beginning of the 1970’s. In my fathers, my mother and me the director Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, embarks on a personal journey into his past. Including archive material made public for the first time in this film, the director confronts himself and his mother with the question ‘What is family?’.

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