Quelque Chose De Mal 2005
Quelque Chose De Mal 2005
21min | Short
Storyline:
While his family is mourned by the death of the grandfather, Balthasar, reinforced by his religious convictions, does not seem particularly sad. Yet this blind faith which seemed to protect him from the real world will soon be called into question by circumstances.
Klovn The Movie 2010
R | 1h 33min | Comedy | 16 December 2010 (Denmark)
Storyline:
In order to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend, Frank ‘kidnaps’ her 12-year-old nephew and tags along on his best friend Casper’s debauched weekend canoe trip.
Roveh Huliot 1979
Roveh Huliot 1979
1h 35min | Drama | 6 June 1979 (Israel)
Storyline
The Wooden Gun takes place in Tel Aviv in the early 1950s. In a clear-eyed fashion that would have been impossible in a film made by “outsiders”, the plot details the conflict between native-born Israelis and the newly arrived European refugees. The various fears and prejudices of the adults are passed along to their children, upon whom director Hans Moshenson concentrates. Largely comprised of non professionals, the teen-aged protagonists and antagonists are remarkable in their sincerity and conviction.
Freedom Is Paradise 1989
Freedom Is Paradise 1989
S.E.R. – Svoboda eto rai (1989)
1h 16min | Drama | 1989 (Soviet Union)
Storyline
Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children’s home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his father.
Ronja Rovardotter 1984
Ronja Rovardotter 1984
Ronja Rövardotter (original title)
2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 14 December 1984 (Sweden)
Storyline:
Borka and his band and Mattis’s band of robbers are rivals. Birk, his parents and their band live in the wild in Mattisforrest. They move in to Metis-stronghold, which belonged to his ancestors, in an attempt to escape being caught by the king’s men. The children have to learn to live in the woods
Sommerjubel 1985
43min | Short, Comedy, Drama | 1 October 1986 (Norway)
Storyline:
It is the last day of school before summer vacation. The teacher can be heard telling the students about a traveler going to America. As the bell rings we see dozens of children running from the school. The camera then focuses on a group of preteen children talking amongst themselves. The scene changes and we see Trond(Øystein Offer-Olsen) and Oystein(Hans Jacob Melbye) running down a hillside and through the woods to a small lake. They talk about going swimming in the lake and one of them mentions that they do not have their
Abandoned 2001
Torzók (originl title)
1h 40min | Drama | 25 October 2001 (Hungary)
Storyline:
Abandoned at an orphanage by his recently divorced father, Aron endures a life full of cruelty and despair, punctuated by beating from the orphanage staff and ridicule from the other boys. His only friend is his classmate Attila, who helps him discover love and gives him strength to fight back.
Kindergarten 1989
Kindergarten 1989
1h 19min | Drama, Romance
Storyline:
Middle aged couple Graciela and Arturo operate a kindergarten in their mansion. They live with Graciela’s wheelchair bound widowed mother, Luisa. Graciela is particularly keen on one boy, Luciano, on whom she makes sexual advances. As time progresses, the relationship between Graciela and Arturo tenses. Scenes show them celebrating kids’ birthdays while having sex in hiding, practicing a ritualistic burning of a wrecked car, mistreating their comatose grandfather (victim of said car wreck) and generally torturing Luciano. The end has Luciano imprisoning and gassing Graciela and Arturo, and then escaping with Luisa on a horse-drawn carriage.
