Európa messze van 1995

Európa messze van 1995

Európa messze van 1995

Európa messze van 1995
1h 45m | Drama, Family | 1995

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The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at the same time, presents an authentic vista of contemporary Eastern Europe. All the events are shown through his eyes. His odyssey is an amusing and grotesque tale of survival as well as a parable on the survival of the human spirit. He comes to grips with a hostile world with both humor and rage, imagination and innocence. Petru lives with his vegetarian father Mihai and his pianist mother Daniela, in a small idyllic village in the Carpathian Mountains. His best friends are his dog Ursu, with whom he shares all his joys and sorrows, and the buffalo Florica. One day the family has to leave the country for political reasons. A long journey to freedom full of thrills and adventures begins, which first leads them from Hungary to Austria. Here they are sent to a refugee camp where Petru’s parents are classified as economic refugees because they have no documents; they are be deported back to Romania. Petru flees on his own and has to encounter a number of dangerous situations. But there are also glimmers of hope when an old stationmaster and his wife from a tiny Bavarian village adopt him, nurse him back to health and enable him to integrate into a new community. But here too, the police are already on his tail.

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El Pato y El Burro 2020

El Pato y El Burro 2020

El Pato y El Burro 2020

El Pato y El Burro 2020
11m | Short | 2020

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David and Randal are detained in the principal’s office at their school. The principal wants to know what they did to end up there. As the children recount what happened, their enmity will be tested, and an unexpected twist will change everything.

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Three Wishes 1995

Three Wishes 1995

Three Wishes 1995

Three Wishes 1995
1h 55m | Drama, Family, Fantasy | Release date: October 27, 1995 (United States)

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When Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, Tom and Gunny, she accidentally runs into a drifter, named Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Feeling sorry for him, Jane invites Jack and his dog Betty Jane to stay at her house until his leg has healed. After having some difficulties to adapt to this new lifestyle, Jack soon finds himself loved by the family and they all want him to stay. When he starts teaching baseball to Tom, who misses his father who’s missing in the Korean War, the two of them develop a strong bond. Meanwhile, Gunny believes that there’s more to Jack and Betty Jane than meets the eye, and he’s determined to find out.

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Beyond the Wasteland 2023

Beyond the Wasteland 2023

Beyond the Wasteland 2023

Beyond the Wasteland 2023
M (original title)
1h 39m | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | Release date: October 5, 2023 (North Macedonia)

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The world outside the forest is a desolate and dangerous place. The forest is all what eight-year-old Marko has known and the only person he knows is his paranoid, protective Father. His most precious possession is his Picture Book where he believes he can find the answers to everything. His life suddenly changes when he discovers an innocent gentle boy with Down Syndrome named Miko living on the edge of the forest. Things turn for the worse when the boys are left alone to fend for themselves against the remnants of humanity. Marko has no clear idea of what it means to have a mother, but the boys must go on a journey to find her. Outside the safety of the forest, Marko is faced with a shattered world shrouded in silence and full of peril.

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Het Boek van Alle Dingen 2024

Het Boek van Alle Dingen 2024

Het Boek van Alle Dingen 2024

Het Boek van Alle Dingen 2024
1h 26m | Drama | Release date: October 10, 2024 (Netherlands)

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The 1960s, Netherlands. Thomas doesn’t realise it yet, but he has special powers. The nine-year-old sees things others cannot. He lives in a strict, religious family where his father, quick to cite the word of God, often resorts to violence. As a sense of injustice grows within him and a longing for freedom takes hold, Thomas begins writing his Book on Everything. In it, he wishes for his father’s punishment and encounters a host of unusual characters: Jesus Christ, a levitating lady with a piano-loving cat, tropical fish swimming in city canals, a young peg-legged witch living next door, and many others.

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Toen we van de Duitsers verloren 2023

Toen we van de Duitsers verloren 2023

Toen we van de Duitsers verloren 2023

Toen we van de Duitsers verloren 2023
1h 25m | Drama | Release date: September 21, 2023 (Netherlands)

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After the lost final against Germany, everyone is hungover; in the summer town it remains quiet. Jonas and Dan bump into each other and decide to explore the neighborhood to see if there is anything going on. Meanwhile, the realization sinks in that their classmate Catootje has been missing for five days – could she still be alive?

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Kix 2024

Kix 2024

Kix 2024

Kix 2024
1h 34m | Documentary | Release date: November 21, 2024 (Hungary)

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This urban odyssey begins with a chance meeting on the streets of Budapest, when the two filmmakers run into Sanyi, a charismatic, unruly 8-year-old who constantly tests boundaries and oscillates between childlike innocence and a sober outlook that belies his age. Over the course of over a decade, the camera captures Sanyi’s growing pains in a cramped, dilapidated apartment with barely functioning parents and a baby sister. Charted by a fiery temperament and an inexplicable attraction to danger, the course of Sanyi’s life seems predetermined as he hurtles toward a dark future. Filmed in the spirit of Cinema Verité, this gripping and gritty doc will have you on the edge of your seat from Sanyi’s first breakneck-speed skateboard ride to his inevitable plummet down the rough roads of adulthood.

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Ein Wigwam für die Störche 1976

 

Ein Wigwam für die Störche 1976

Ein Wigwam für die Störche 1976

Ein Wigwam für die Störche 1976
55m | Family | Release date: February 14, 1985 (East Germany)

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An old cane-roofed barn with a stork’s nest has to be demolished, and Grandpa Schmahl and his young friend Till want to give the storks a new wigwam. They also build a tripod to give them a nesting aid.

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