Killer Kid 1994
1h 30min | Drama, War | 22 June 1994 (France)
Storyline:
A Lebanese kid is sent to France on a terrorist mission for “Allah’s Army”. An Arab French kid becomes involved unwittingly. A bond develops between the two, while they become alienated from and independent of the adults in their lives.
Mr. Nobody 2009 – Extended
R | 2h 21min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 26 September 2013 (USA)
Storyline:
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn’t choose, anything is possible.
My Father’s Glory 1990
My Father’s Glory 1990
La gloire de mon père (original title)
1h 45min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 29 August 1990 (France)
Storyline:
A young boy’s life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence, and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in Provence.
I Want to Be a Soldier 2010
1h 40min | Drama | 14 October 2011 (Italy)
Storyline:
I Want To Be A Soldier” is the story of Alex, an average eight year old kid who seems to grow a morbid fascination for images portraying violence. He begins to develop a communication problem with his parents and other kids at school, and closes in on himself, inventing two imaginary friends..
L’uomo fiammifero 2009
1h 18min | Fantasy | 7 December 2009 (Italy)
Storyline:
Simone, eleven and lost his mother, lives with his father in the Abruzzo countryside in the early eighties. It’s summer and, since most of his friends are on holiday, Simone spends time with Lorenza, a girl two years older, and especially with imaginary figures created by his imagination. This imagination, too externalized, forcing his father to close it in the house. But the boy did not give in and manages to escape in search of ” Man match, “the most remarkable among the creatures sprung from his mind of the child.
Honey 2010
Bal (original title)
1h 43min | Drama | 11 February 2010 (Germany)
Storyline:
The young boy Yusuf’s best friend is his father, who supports his family’s modest life with the honey he collects from tall trees in the forests of the remote Turkish countryside. Yusuf is a quiet boy, and his mother is concerned for his future. Perhaps he will follow in his father’s footsteps, or perhaps school will offer him other opportunities. But the honey crop is failing, and Yusuf has trouble learning how to read. The greatest fear strikes when Yusuf’s father doesn’t return home from the forest.
Lilja 4-ever 2002
Lilja 4-ever 2002
16 | 1h 49min | Crime, Drama | 23 August 2002 (Sweden)
Storyline:
While waiting for her mothers reply to take her to the USA, Lilya idles the time away smoking, drinking and having fun with her, too, outcast friend Volodya. In time, the chance of a new life becomes non-existent; her life is going nowhere. Meeting a young man, she then finds a plane ticket in her hand and a new life in Sweden: a job, an apartment and prospects. All is not what it seems. There shall be work, there shall be housing and there shall be no escape. This is the stark, frank and disturbing vision of the life of a young victim of the underground sex trade and in all its tone of realism of abject poverty, despicable actions and of wanting to show that dreaming of a better life is not a crime but that life can shatter the illusion of a happy ending.
