Fallen Angel 1981
1h 40m | Drama | Release date: February 24, 1981 (United States)
Storyline:
Twelve-year-old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom’s relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of an adult man named Howie and joins the softball team he coaches. Howie is soon convincing Jennifer to pose for photographs which become more and more revealing. He turns out to be a pedophile who works in child pornography and plans to make Jennifer a “star”. Will her mother be able to help her before it’s too late?
De pupil 2025
1h 43m | Drama | Release date: October 30, 2025 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
Through a process of grooming, Daan (12) is gradually sexually abused by his football coach, Ries (35). The necessity of keeping this secret isolates Daan. When the truth eventually emerges, Daan is overwhelmed by shame and must confront the uncomfortable, and at times ruthless, reactions from those around him.
The Garden of Earthly Delights 2025
2h 4m | Drama | Release date: May 29, 2025 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
In the stormy slums of Manila, eleven-year-old Ginto fights for survival, respect and freedom, determined to rise as a gangster rather than a street scavenger. He frequently escapes his harsh reality with his best friend, on whom he has a tender, unspoken crush, and who joins him on drug-induced journeys to a paradise realm bursting with blooming flowers. His protective sister Asia tries her best to keep him on the right path, but she has her own struggles to deal with, as she engages in sex work in pursuit of a better life. Meanwhile, Dutch tourist Michael enters town with plans to celebrate Christmas with his online Filipino girlfriend, only to have his world crumble when he discovers he’s been catfished. Overwhelmed by betrayal, he descends into the underbelly of the city’s red-light district, where desire meets sinister demand. As Ginto’s and Michael’s fates ultimately intertwine, Ginto is forced to make an impossible decision, drawing him into a brutal garden of earthly delights.
Európa messze van 1995
1h 45m | Drama, Family | 1995
Storyline:
The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at the same time, presents an authentic vista of contemporary Eastern Europe. All the events are shown through his eyes. His odyssey is an amusing and grotesque tale of survival as well as a parable on the survival of the human spirit. He comes to grips with a hostile world with both humor and rage, imagination and innocence. Petru lives with his vegetarian father Mihai and his pianist mother Daniela, in a small idyllic village in the Carpathian Mountains. His best friends are his dog Ursu, with whom he shares all his joys and sorrows, and the buffalo Florica. One day the family has to leave the country for political reasons. A long journey to freedom full of thrills and adventures begins, which first leads them from Hungary to Austria. Here they are sent to a refugee camp where Petru’s parents are classified as economic refugees because they have no documents; they are be deported back to Romania. Petru flees on his own and has to encounter a number of dangerous situations. But there are also glimmers of hope when an old stationmaster and his wife from a tiny Bavarian village adopt him, nurse him back to health and enable him to integrate into a new community. But here too, the police are already on his tail.
Beyond the Wasteland 2023
M (original title)
1h 39m | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | Release date: October 5, 2023 (North Macedonia)
Storyline:
The world outside the forest is a desolate and dangerous place. The forest is all what eight-year-old Marko has known and the only person he knows is his paranoid, protective Father. His most precious possession is his Picture Book where he believes he can find the answers to everything. His life suddenly changes when he discovers an innocent gentle boy with Down Syndrome named Miko living on the edge of the forest. Things turn for the worse when the boys are left alone to fend for themselves against the remnants of humanity. Marko has no clear idea of what it means to have a mother, but the boys must go on a journey to find her. Outside the safety of the forest, Marko is faced with a shattered world shrouded in silence and full of peril.
Het Boek van Alle Dingen 2024
1h 26m | Drama | Release date: October 10, 2024 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
The 1960s, Netherlands. Thomas doesn’t realise it yet, but he has special powers. The nine-year-old sees things others cannot. He lives in a strict, religious family where his father, quick to cite the word of God, often resorts to violence. As a sense of injustice grows within him and a longing for freedom takes hold, Thomas begins writing his Book on Everything. In it, he wishes for his father’s punishment and encounters a host of unusual characters: Jesus Christ, a levitating lady with a piano-loving cat, tropical fish swimming in city canals, a young peg-legged witch living next door, and many others.
Nothing as It Was 2013
Nichts mehr wie vorher (original title)
1h 33m | Drama | Release date: September 24, 2013 (Germany)
Storyline:
The accusations against 16-year-old Daniel Gudermann ( Jonas Nay ) are serious. The youth is denounced in his small town as the perpetrator of a cruel crime. 11-year-old Fabian was abused and then killed. According to eyewitness reports, Daniel was the last person seen at the crime scene. The police then decide to question Daniel personally, but he flees. This is a godsend for the town’s residents, and they begin to vehemently incite against the Gudermann family.
City of Dreams 2023
1h 54m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: August 30, 2024 (United States)
Storyline:
City of Dreams follows Jesús, a young farmer in rural Mexico who dreams of playing for Club Puebla, his local soccer team. With the promise of training at a soccer camp in Los Angeles, Jesús is convinced by his father to leave home, but he soon discovers that he’s been sold to a sweatshop run out of a decrepit mansion in downtown Los Angeles. Jesús is then subjected to the grueling 18-hour work schedule dictated by El Jefe, a boss who promises freedom for those who complete their quotas, and whose brutality is motivated by his own desperation to provide for his family back in Mexico. Despite all, Jesús finds solace in Elena, a girl who was similarly betrayed and sent to America under the guise of attending a fashion school. When Elena goes missing and another co-worker, Carlitos, is severely beaten for confronting El Jefe, Jesús realizes his only way out is a daring escape.
Kalak 2023
2h | Drama | Release date: February 29, 2024 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a “true” and “dirty” Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. But ultimately he has to confront his father.
