The Day Will Come 2016
Der kommer en dag (original title)
1h 50min | Drama | 21 April 2016 (Denmark)
Storyline:
‘Der kommer en dag’ is a movie about an orphanage where violence and humiliations is a part of the everyday life. The history is based on real stories from a boy home called ‘godhavn’, where lots of boys were victims of violent and sexual abuse and medical experiments.
Martin’s Day 1985
1h 38min | Drama | 22 February 1985 (USA)
Storyline:
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too – a quiet “good little boy” always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire “Stech” for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin’s childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.
Moja Australia 2011
1h 37min | Drama | 14 April 2011 (Poland)
Storyline:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland together with her family and go to… Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become aware of their and their family roots.
Jonny kommt 1988
1h 45min | Family | TV Movie 25 December 1988
Plot:
12-year-old johnny lives in a shelter. No father, his mother abandoned him. They have the opportunity to get into the family of a local doctor. In a family of three children: almost grown daughter and the boys are 11 and 5 years. But not everything is so simple. Largely the fault of the Johnnie.
Krucke 1993
Krücke (original title)
1h 38min | Drama | 26 May 1994 (Germany)
Plot:
In the turmoil of the last war days, the 13-year-old Tom loses his mother. From Silesia, he succeeded in fleeing to Vienna, where he clung to the war cripple crutch, which is flooded with little crooks. Together, the two conquer each other through post-war Vienna; Finally they arrive in Germany.
Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (1971)
23min | Short, Documentary | 1971 (UK)
Plot:
From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology takes us through 60 yearsof sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s.All ‘unmentionable matters’ pertaining to sex are dealt with, from the WW1 warning to soldiers about the dangers of cavorting with loose women in London’s West End, Whatsoever a Man Soweth (1917), to puberty pep-talks for girls on how to avoid pregnancy in Don’t Be Like Brenda (1973).
A Monster Calls 2016
PG-13 | 1h 48min | Drama, Fantasy | 9 September 2016 (Canada)
Storyline:
The monster does not come walking often. This time it comes to Connor, and it asks for the one thing Connor cannot bring himself to do. Tell the truth. This is a very touching story about a boy who feels very damaged, guilty and mostly angry. He struggles at school with bullies, and pity looks from everyone, and at home with his mother’s sickness. Will Connor overcome his problems? Will everything be okay? Will Connor be able to speak the truth?
Jan auf der Zille 1986
1h 26min | Drama, War | 26 March 1986 (East Germany)
Storyline:
1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to be shot by the police when he was on the run. Jan lives with his aunt and finds a friend, Max, who wants to help him to find out what really with his father happened. During a conspirative gathering Max is shot by SA (Nazi paramilitary) and Jan succeed to escape in a barge. Erika, the daughter of the captain of the barge, and a boatman hide him. They try to help Jan to escape from police and find his father, who really survived.
