Lachenite obuvki na neznayniya voin 1979

Lachenite obuvki na neznayniya voin 1979

Lachenite obuvki na neznayniya voin 1979
1h 25min | Drama | 9 May 1979 (Bulgaria)

Storyline

A middle-aged Bulgarian is watching the change of the guard in front of the Buckingham Palace. For no apparent reason, while looking, in his mind he gets back to his childhood in the little Bulgarian village, he grew up in. Different rites, different traditions and still he finds something in common. He recalls the people he knew, he feared or admired. He ponders over that life of no brilliance, where people plough, harvest, marry and die, celebrate or grieve. Miracle are also worked, conceived in a unlimited child’s imagination. It is the child’s perception of the world that helps us to give a meaning to the major questions of human existence.

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Agostino 1962

Agostino 1962

Agostino 1962
1h 42min | Drama | 29 July 1963 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Agostino is a 13-year-old boy on vacation in Venice with his widowed mother. When a local stud seduces her, jealous Agostino joins a local group of juvenile delinquents out of protest. They force him to face his budding sexuality.

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Ratcatcher 1999

Ratcatcher 1999

Ratcatcher 1999
1h 34min | Drama | 12 November 1999 (UK)

Storyline

Glasgow, summer, 1973. Dustmen are striking; bags of garbage add to the blight of council flats and a fetid canal. Ryan, who’s about 12, drowns during a play fight with his neighbor, the jug-eared James. James runs home, a flat where he lives with his often-drunk da, his ma, and sisters, who live in hope of moving to newly-built council flats. The slice-of-life, coming-of-age story follows James as he tags along with the older lads; has a friendship with his quirky wee rodent-loving neighbor, Kenny; spends time with Margaret Anne, myopic, slightly older, the local sexual punching bag; and, has a moment or two of joy. The strike may end, but is there any way out for James?

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Poslednie kholoda 1993

Poslednie kholoda 1993

Poslednie kholoda 1993

Poslednie kholoda 1993
1h 10min | Drama

Plot:

May 1945. In a small town of the province of Kazakhstan, far from the front of the war draws to a close, young Vladik and Mary, and Akezhan, a boy a bit ‘largest are among the displaced. It is through the eyes of the latter, his feelings and his reactions, that we enter into intimacy with the different characters and their stories.

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Jutro bedzie lepiej 2008

Jutro bedzie lepiej 2008

Jutro bedzie lepiej 2008
1h 58min | Drama | 11 November 2011 (Poland)

Storyline

Six-year-old named Petya (Oleg Ryba). Petya, his brother Vasya (Jewgieni Ryba), and their friend Liapa (Akhmed Saralov) travel overland with dreams of a better life in Poland and the hope that tomorrow will be better. They learn they must rely on each other to find their new home.

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