Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen 1991
Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen 1991
1h 20min | Drama | 24 September 1991 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
Elias has hardly left his childhood behind him than he is sent to boarding school with his older cousin. But before that he spends his holidays on the isolated estate belonging to his family, a little group fully out of touch with the world.
Mov og Funder 1991
Møv og Funder (original title)
1h 10min | Drama | 29 November 1991 (Denmark)
Storyline:
A 12-year-old kid who misses his father becomes really affectionate with a young delinquent he just met.
The Annunciation 1984
Angyali üdvözlet (original title)
1h 40min | Drama | 27 April 1990 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Angyali üdvözlet, aka “The Annunciation”, is a surreal account of the history of humanity as portrayed entirely by children between the ages of 8 and 12. The film begins with the biblical story as Adam (Péter Bocsor) and Eve (Júlia Mérö), are deceived by Lucifer (Eszter Gyalog) — three very photogenic leads — into tasting the “Forbidden Fruit”. They are thus chased out of the Garden of Eden by the Angel of Death and, in a vision, sent on an existential journey through western European history.
Stikk 2007
17min | Short, Drama | 24 April 2007 (Norway)
Storyline:
13-year-old Alexander is the smallest kid in his eighth grade class. A tough girl cell-films him in the shower and shares the video with the class, earning him the nickname “Mini”. Alexander is, naturally, humiliated, until the new kid in class helps him get his revenge.
Gisberta 2009
23min | Short, Drama | 20 November 2009 (Germany)
Again and again Elisha finds himself confronted by Alex, Timo, Sascha, and Mika – all 14-year-olds living in the boys’ orphanage with him. Their worlds ought to be similar and yet they are completely different. While Elisha builds tiny obstacle courses for ants in the woods, the other boys spend their days watching porn, absorbed in their emerging sexual fantasies.
Wenn einer was versprochen hat 1976
Wenn einer was versprochen hat 1976
1h 13min | Family | TV Movie 26 December 1976
Storyline
The problems of a twelve year old boy, with the requirements of the parents and the school and their own interests coincide. The father of Jens had reported for use in the oil route “Druzhba” in the Soviet Union.. Before he and his family left, had to Jens to promise him the mother in the household to help. Jens keeps his promise, especially since his father in a segment of the line announces that he knows how proud he is of his young if his promise was. However, the consequence of which is that Jens has only little to the events of his classmates can participate in outside of class to take place. To do this for his friend Jens again, Mischa’s an idea: you would have to be the mother of Jens, who works as a traffic cop. So the road to be better regulated, which means that signs be changed! But the result is that Mischa and Jens-suddenly at the police station later. Obviously this was – though well meaning – not the right way to reach your goal. But recently proves Jens with his reaction to what happened was that on him to Leave.
At – The Horse 1982
1h 56min | Drama | 1982 (Switzerland)
Review:
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Although Ali Ozgenturk’s film is called “The Horse”, we actually see very little of said animal. In the film we follow a father named Hüseyin and his son Ferhat as they move from their poverty stricken town in the Turkish countryside to Istanbul. Hüseyin is desperate to find enough money so he can send his son to school, and Ferhat hopes the money can be used to buy a horse. In Istanbul, Hüseyin buys a vegetable cart and the two attempt to sell vegetables on the street. Because Hüseyin doesn’t have a licence to sell vegetables, the two are constantly on the look out for cops, and eventually Hüseyin has a run in with the law and loses his cart, although he himself escapes. Hüseyin tries various other methods to get money but they all prove fruitless. Finally, he steals a cart and takes it to the market place. All he has to sell is a single flower, but before he call sell it he his attacked and accidentally killed by the carts owner. Ferhat is sent home.
Ik Ben de Enige 2014
15min | Short | 2014 (Netherlands)
Story:
The movie takes us through beautiful landscapes and oppressive spaces. A dream sequence that leads to liberation, on the border between imagination and reality. We travel with a boy who matures. He dreams, he dances and he is the only conductor.
