Growing Up – Boys

Growing Up - Boys

Growing Up – Boys

Growing Up – Boys
49min | Documentary | 2002

Plot:

This series offers a highly visual insight into the minds and bodies of teenagers and uses their own experiences to track their progress from child to adulthood. The focus is on the boys Jesse, Andy, Mark and Dominic and the girls Sharmaine, Claudia, and the twins Rebecca and Jessica. This series concludes that to become a settled adult, a teenager must grow to be comfortable with his/her body, new identity, and the responsibilities that come with adulthood.

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Erik of Het Klein Insectenboek 2004

Erik of Het Klein Insectenboek 2004

Erik of Het Klein Insectenboek 2004
1h 37min | Adventure, Family, Mystery | 9 December 2004 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

In this movie -after the classical Godfried Bomans novel of the same Dutch title- with musical elements, Erik is a Dutch ten year-old schoolboy who is studying insects at school, and gets shown and explained a bit about them by his kind and knowledgeable nature-loving grandfather, whose country estate is a good place to do so and turns out to have a book on insects, which allows Erik to pass for one night, rather like Alice in Wonderland, as a miniature man among thus giant-looking, talking insects, who discuss their and other species and their lives with him, mainly winged ones, such as bee, fly and wasp.

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A Boy Called H 2013

A Boy Called H 2013

A Boy Called H 2013
Shônen H (original title)
2h 1min | Drama | 10 August 2013 (Japan)

Storyline:

Narrated and viewed from the perspective of a child in the family, Shoonen H portrays the daily trials and societal difficulties of a Christian family from just prior to the commencement of World War II to its aftermath. Distrusted as Christians, yet steadfast, the parents become sources of reassurance and discipline for the children in a society in turmoil.

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L’albero di Guernica 1975

L'albero di Guernica 1975

L’albero di Guernica 1975
1h 50min | Drama, War | 19 November 1975 (France)

Storyline:

The Spanish Civil War, as experienced by the town of Villa Ramiro. The local count and his Fascist nephews ally with the rebels; the count’s son, indifferent to politics at the outset, later makes a choice; the town’s teacher, Antonio Garcia, a pacifist, tries not to take sides but to inspire the children with ideas; a beautiful eccentric woman, Vandale, brings leadership and strength to the town; dwarfs long for equality. The fictive story of Villa Ramiro is inter-cut with archival footage of the war itself. The town is near Guernica, and the local Republicans draw inspiration from its freedom tree.

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Weiser 2001

Weiser 2001

Weiser 2001

Weiser 2001
1h 35min | Drama, Mystery | 18 January 2001 (Poland)

Storyline:

Poland. Summer 1967: 12-year-old kids, Pawel, Piotr, Szymek, and Elka, meet a fascinating, mysterious Jewish boy. David Weiser opens for them a new world of miracles and mystique. He is scheming something unusual.

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Elysium 1986

Elysium 1986

Elysium 1986
1h 58min | Drama, War

Plot:

1944. The Szekeres’ are a much honoured intellectual Jewish family in Budapest, therefore they believe that they will be able to survive the Holocaust. One day the ten-year-old Gyurika does not return from the neighborhood. It is too late to learn that the well-behaved little boy was ordered by a gendarme to join the march of yellow-stared people. Gyurika still expects on the train that someone will come for him. The crazy run of his parents is in vain. Gyurika gets into the camp called Elysium, where experiments are carried out on children. Doctor Helmer grows fond of the intelligent little boy who speaks good German and is full of trust for adults again, but this does not save Gyurika from death.

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Top je bio vreo 2014

Top je bio vreo 2014

Top je bio vreo 2014
1h 40min | Drama, War | 15 January 2015 (Serbia)

Storyline:

A grenade fired from a nearby hill kills the parents of a ten year old boy during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. The Boy looses his ability to speak. A lady neighbor adopts and takes care of him. The Boy is thrown out from his destroyed apartment and begins to prowl around the city with a schoolmate. Too early and too soon, he goes through the process of growing up. He learns the meanings of such words as force, death, sex. He learns how to achieve. He learns about the values. He learns what matters the most. The Lady neighbor that takes care of him tries to shelter him and protect him. Unsuccessfully. The Boy rides to fall. Death and suffering become more frequent, and more severe. When the Lady neighbor’s teenage son is killed by a sniper as a collateral damage, she then rejects the Boy. The Boy escapes the siege, and shoots from a cannon at the city.Fifteen years later, the Boy – now twenty five – and the Lady neighbor meet again. They are united in pain and suffering.

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The Black Hen 2015

The Black Hen 2015

The Black Hen 2015
Kalo Pothi (original title)
1h 30min | Action, Drama, History | 30 December 2015 (France)

Storyline:

We are in the year 2001, a temporary ceasefire brings a much-needed break to a small war-torn village in Northern Nepal, bringing much joy among the residents. Prakash and Kiran, two young close friends, are also starting to feel the change in the air. Though they are divided by caste and social creed, they remain inseparable, and start raising a hen given to Prakash by his sister, with hopes to save money by selling her eggs. However, the hen goes missing. To find it, they embark on a journey, innocently unaware of the tyranny brought by the fragile ceasefire.

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