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.
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.
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.
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.
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?’.
The Kitchen Toto 1987
The Kitchen Toto 1987
1h 36m | Drama | Release date: April 29, 1988 (Japan)
Storyline:
The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
Why Is Mother in My Bed 1994
Why Is Mother in My Bed 1994
Pourquoi maman est dans mon lit? (original title)
1h 32m | Comedy | Release date: July 6, 1994 (France)
Storyline:
The whole story begins the day Antoine steals a jacket from a store. Believing that lack of money is the main cause of the crime, her mother decides to find a job. From promotion to promotion, she very quickly earns more money than her husband, which leads to arguments and crisis in the household. Until the day Antoine’s father leaves the house. Antoine then finds himself alone with his mother. One evening, the latter threw herself into her bed, Antoine decided to react.
