Pajarico 1997
1h 40min | Drama | 6 February 1998 (Spain)
Storyline
Manu, who just turned ten, makes his first trip to Murcia to spend some time with his father’s family. Surrounded by orchards, sea, nature and a cheerful and warm family, he will find his first love and the first signs of his adult life.
Kak doma kak dela 1987
Kak doma kak dela 1987
1h 27min | Drama, Family
Storyline:
About life in Tbilisi children in prewar and war years. Mika sees off his father to the front and it remains in the family in charge. On his shoulders lie care of his mother and younger brother. Mick and his friends spread letters to soldiers, to help families of the victims. Old noisy courtyard with many inhabitants – their home.
Abeltje 1998
1h 50min | Adventure, Family | 26 November 1998 (Netherlands)
Storyline
Pupil Abel is the victim of Laura’s nasty prank, yet gets accidentally blamed and overreacts. His ma withdraws him from school and gets him a job as lift-boy. But its’ a special lift: when he pushes the forbidden green button, it takes him, Laura, Jozias Tump and Maria Klaterhoen to Manhattan. There he’s mistaken by a rich bitch who looks like his mother for her long missing son Johnny. When a police helicopter comes to tow the lift cabin, the Dutchmen get back in. It takes them to a Latin American country, Perugona. The new revolutionary leader realizes presidents live about one year, so he gives the job to Mr. Tump, who saved his life. The news coverage attracts Abel’s and Johnny’s family, in time for an even weirder finale.
Shivers 1981
Dreszcze (original title)
1h 46min | Drama, History | 23 November 1981 (Poland)
Storyline:
Set in the early 1950’s, during the Stalin’s Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek’s father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The neighbor upstairs commits suicide when her husband is also arrested and transported to the prison camp. It’s winter so the kids keep their hands warm at school by hand-beating themselves. The teachers at school are mean, narrow minded idealists, When they ask the kids who goes to church on Sundays, the whole class stands up to defeat the purpose of the propaganda lesson. Tomek is sent to the training school in the summer. There he absorbs most of the ideology pumped into his head, and when his father is released from prison he finds another boy he has left.
The King of Havanna 2015
El rey de La Habana (original title)
2h 5min | Drama | 16 October 2015 (Spain)
Storyline:
Recently escaped from reformatory, young Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other’s arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.
Closet Monster 2015
1h 30min | Drama | 13 September 2015 (Canada)
Storyline:
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Moritz lieber Moritz 1978
1h 36min | Drama | 15 September 1978 (Finland)
Storyline:
Moritz is fifteen years old and in the middle of puberty. His parents are in an economic crisis. Although the family still lives in a huge villa in Hamburg, it is only a matter of time to leave there. His grandmother was once a central person in his life, but she was deported to a retirement home by her parents. He remains alone and seeks contact.
Il est genial papy 1987
Il est génial papy! (original title)
1h 32min | Comedy | 2 December 1987 (France)
Storyline
A 10-year old boy causes havoc in his grandfather’s already chaotic life, when he appears on his doorstep during a break from boarding school.
