Human Factors 2021

Human Factors 2021

Human Factors 2021

Human Factors 2021
1h 42min | Drama | 29 January 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

Jan, Nina and their two kids are a cosmopolitan, middle-class family. Nina and Jan have a successful career as account executives at their advertising company, but when Jan accepts to work on the campaign of a political party, Nina’s exclusion from the decision-making leads to doubting and mistrust. When they decide to spend a family weekend at their house in a coastal holiday resort, a mysterious home invasion sets everything off balance. While they try to put the incident into perspective, agitation triggers off a shake in the family core. Told through narrative loops and shifting lenses, HUMAN FACTORS unveils the fragility of truth in the hyper-mediatized world and the power of individual perspective.

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Lost in the Wild 1976

Lost in the Wild 1976

Lost in the Wild 1976

Lost in the Wild 1976
Barney (original title)
1h 33min | Adventure | 16 December 1976 (Australia)

Storyline:

A twelve year old boy and a common criminal are being transported in the same ship from England to Australia in the last century. When the ship wrecked they happen to be the only survivors of the catastrophe. Now they have to get along with each other and finally become friends.

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Menino de Engenho 1965

Menino de Engenho 1965

Menino de Engenho 1965

Menino de Engenho 1965
1h 22min | Drama | 28 September 1993 (Brazil)

Storyline:

1920, in Paraíba. After his mother’s death, the boy Carlinhos (Sávio Rolim) is sent to the Santa Rosa mill to be raised by his grandfather and uncles. There he witnesses the arrival of a new era, with the advent of modern sugar mills and the economic and social transformations that sugarcane production goes through, changes that will affect everyone’s life. When he grows up and goes to school, he is no longer the naive and innocent boy who arrived at the mill.

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Panya Raenu 2011

Panya Raenu 2011

Panya Raenu 2011

Panya Raenu 2011
1h 27min | Comedy, Drama, Music | 22 December 2011 (Thailand)

Storyline:

Set in a village in Northeastern Thailand, “Panya Raenu” is a story of friendship and dream that centers on a young boy named Panya who has a talent to sing, but who is too poor to afford a local music contest. However, with his endeavor and the support from friends, Panya becomes determined to win while at the same time fending off the advances of a chubby girl named Raenu. One day, a bus carrying students from the capital breaks down near their village and the rich city kids have to spend the night with the rural poor ones.

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Errol 2003

Errol 2003

Errol 2003

Errol 2003
2h 6min | Drama | 2003

Storyline:

12-year-old Errol is found by police in a wardrobe in a drug parade on New Year’s Eve. No one knows who he is or where he comes from and it takes months before he gives his name or talks at all. In his first foster family, he thrives over time, and just as confidence has begun to grow strong, Errol finds out that the placement is only temporary. In desperation, he flees to Stockholm, where he is confronted with the harsh life on the street and in the doorways, utilized by dirty boots with features borrowed by Fagin and hiding from the police. Together with Alfons, who came from Germany during the war, he hangs himself as a small criminal circus artist…

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Exit 7 (1978)

Exit 7 (1978)

Exit 7 (1978)

Exit 7 (1978)
1h 35min | Crime, Drama | 1978

Storyline:

A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airplane forces him to take stock of his life.

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Pagine chiuse 1969

Pagine chiuse 1969

Pagine chiuse 1969

Pagine chiuse 1969
1h 28min | Drama | May 1969 (France)

Storyline:

Northern Italy, late sixties. In the midst of the family crisis, with the parents on the brink of separation, little Luciano is forced to move to a religious college. The stern father, long distracted by a lover, fears that the mother’s influence could harm her son in such a delicate period. But Luciano ill-suited to life in college. While the rigid priests stifle every momentum, the boy, who is homesick, closes more and more in himself and can not make friends with his companions.

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