Les turlupins 1980
1h 35min | Comedy | 27 February 1980 (France)
Storyline:
Late spring 1942: France is under German ocupation. But this doesnt much concern the boarders of a school lost in the French country. Bernard, a rather frivolous teenager, is in love for the first time; hes fond of Marie-Hlne, an older and more mature girl. To approach her is not so easy…
The Genesis Children 1972
The Genesis Children 1972
1h 25min | Drama | August 1972 (USA)
Storyline:
A charismatic leader and a high-spirited student group are on holiday in Italy. The surreal adventures of these friends are a free-flowing, four-part “multi-sensual symphony,” bereft of traditional story line. One national critic described the boys’ anarchic revelry as a “dream-like descent from civilization into the chaos reminiscent of Lord of the Flies.”
Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Arabian Nights) 1974
2h 10min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 20 June 1974 (Italy)
Storyline
In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of Mid-West Asia, the main story concerns an innocent young man who comes to fall in love with a slave who selected him as her master. After his foolish error causes their separation, he travels in search of her. Various other travelers who recount their own tragic and romantic experiences include stories of a young man who becomes enraptured by a mysterious woman on his wedding day, and a man who is determined to free a woman from a demon.
La disubbidienza 1981
1h 38min | Drama | 15 July 1981 (France)
Storyline
Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia. Set in WW II Venice, a young boy sneaks out of his home every night to fight with the partisans while his mother, a cabaret singer, entertains the German soldiers.
Kapgang 2014
Kapgang 2014
1h 48min | Drama | 28 August 2014 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Martin (14) is forced to deal with confused sexuality and the loss of a mother in a provincial setting in the mid-seventies, where the famed Danish liberation of porn has had its influence on the grownups.
Buenos días resistencia 2013
20min | Documentary, Short, Family
Storyline:
Very realistic, almost a morning ritual long, we observe a father getting his children up and ready for school.
Du er ikke alene – You are not alone 1978
Du er ikke alene – You are not alone 1978
1h 30min | Drama, Romance | 23 February 1978 (Denmark)
Storyline
A student strike at a Danish boys school is the backdrop of YOU ARE NOT ALONE. The leisurely paced tale explores the relationship between 15-year-old Bo and Kim, the younger son of the stern boarding school headmaster. Mounting school tensions over the expulsion of a troubled student threaten to sabotage the tranquility of the school.
Chuzhaya belaya i ryaboy 1986
1h 40min | Drama
Storyline:
The year of 1946. The war remained in the past, lying in the future – for those who had survived – a whole life… In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the ‘pigeon’ mafia… Sergey Solovyov’s retro drama about learning kindness, resisting evil and cherishing that indestructible dream of happiness, based upon the novella by B. Ryakhovsky.
Do-ga-ni 2011
Do-ga-ni 2011
2h 5min | Drama | 22 September 2011 (South Korea)
Storyline:
Based on real events, this film depicts the story of a school for the hearing-impaired where young deaf students were sexually assaulted by the faculty members over a long period of time.
