Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992
Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992
1h 18min | Drama | 12 August 1992 (Estonia)
Storyline:
A boy, nicknamed Lumumba after a famous African freedom fighter, arrives in a sleepy little Estonian town. His guardian aunt has taken a position there as cultural coordinator. At school he meets Elsa and Rein, who lost his mother recently, and together they go through the first emotional blast of adolescence.
Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998
Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998
Los amantes del Círculo Polar (original title)
R | 1h 52min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 28 August 1998 (Spain)
Storyline:
Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.
The Flying Classroom 2003
The Flying Classroom 2003
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (original title)
1h 50min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 16 January 2003 (Germany)
Storyline:
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
Rolling Elvis 2019
Rolling Elvis 2019
1h 30min | Comedy, Family | 7 January 2019 (Colombia)
Storyline:
It’s 1985 and while the country is focused in the victories of the national cyclists in the Tour of France, life changes in the blink of an eye for Elvis Antonio, a 12 year old boy passionate for pro cycling and her ex-hippie mom, a big Elvis Presley fan; when Elvis skips school to watch TV and is caught, her mom forces him to enter the school talent show dressed as Elvis Presley, as punishment. Elvis Antonio runs away and starts a painful but hilarious journey that leads him to discover the biggest secret his family keeps.
Wallay 2017
Wallay 2017
G | 1h 24min | Drama | 28 June 2017 (France)
Storyline:
Ady, a 13 year-old boy, no longer listens to his father, who raises him alone in southern France. The father running out of resources, decides to entrust Ady to his uncle Amadou for the summer. Uncle Amadou and his family live across the Mediterranean Sea in Burkina Faso! There, at 13 years of age, one must become a man but Ady, persuaded to go on holiday, understands things differently.
The War with Grandpa 2020
The War with Grandpa 2020
War with Grandpa (original title)
PG | 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 9 October 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
Peter is thrilled that Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter’s room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his grandpa he wants his room back – so he has no choice but to declare war. With the help of his friends, Peter devises outrageous plans to make Grandpa surrender the room. But Grandpa is tougher than he looks. Rather than give in, Grandpa plans to get even.
Prospero’s Books 1991
Prospero’s Books 1991
R | 2h 4min | Drama, Fantasy | 30 August 1991 (UK)
Storyline:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the ‘The Tempest’.
Tikkun 2015
Tikkun 2015
Unrated | 1h 59min | Drama, Mystery | 12 January 2017 (Israel)
Storyline:
Haim-Aaron is an ultra-Orthodox religious scholar from Jerusalem whose talent and devotion are envied by all. One evening, following a self-imposed fast, he collapses and loses consciousness in the bathroom. The paramedics announce his death, but his father, refusing to let him go, takes over resuscitation efforts and, beyond all expectations, he comes back to life. After the accident, the scholar remains apathetic to his studies. He suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him. When his father notices these changes in his son’s behavior, he tries to forgive him, tormented by the fear that he has crossed God’s will when he resuscitated him.
A’Mare 2008
A’Mare 2008
15min | Short, Drama | 16 January 2009 (USA)
Storyline:
Two boys, 11 or 12, perhaps brothers, take a rowboat from shore to fish. Andrea, who’s tougher, complains a lot, sometimes criticizing Felice, sometimes just complaining about life and his situation. Out of sight of shore, Andrea sees a suitcase; he jumps into the water, swims to it, and starts to push it back to the boat. While he’s doing that, Felice sees a man floating, face up. While he tries to grab the man and hold on, he knocks an oar into the sea. The boys are unable to lift the man into the boat, and without two oars, can’t head to shore. Will rescue come? Andrea tries to reassure Felice while also figuring out who the man is and what he’s doing in the sea.
