Gionatan with a G 2016
Gionatan with a G 2016
TV-14 | 15min | Short, Drama | 6 April 2016 (Italy)
Storyline:
Gionatan is nine years old, but he has the eyes of a man. In a waiting room of an hospital, he is waiting for his mother who is getting examined some facial injuries. With some candy in his hand and a terrible idea in his mind, Gionatan decide to run away.
Rent Boys 2011
Rent Boys 2011
Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 24min | Documentary | 24 February 2011 (Germany)
Storyline:
Berlin stories behind sex for money. Despised, stigmatised and suppressed to the fringe of society – this is the reality young, male prostitutes face in Berlin. Most of the hustlers are immigrants, a lot of them act out of necessity. Rosa von Praunheim acompanies the young adults at their work in bars, porn movie theatres and on the street. He shows their reasons, their stories and above all, their strong will to survive.
Sunflower 2005
Sunflower 2005
Xiang ri kui (original title)
2h 9min | Drama, Romance | 17 August 2007 (USA)
Storyline:
Relationship between father and son on a background of Maoist regime in China in the mid-20th century. The father, a painter by profession, interned in a labor camp for “re-education” and loses his ability to paint. he teaches his son to draw, but does so obsessively. The convoluted relationship between father and son that spread over the period of childhood, adolescence and maturity of the son are being resolved in a surprising and sensitive way.
Palmer 2021
Palmer 2021
R | 1h 50min | Drama | 29 January 2021 (USA)
Storyline:
An ex-convict strikes up a friendship with a boy from a troubled home.
A Melody to Remember 2016
A Melody to Remember 2016
Op-pa saeng-gak (original title)
2h 4min | Action, Drama, War | 21 January 2016 (South Korea)
Storyline:
Second Lieutenant Han Sang-Yeok (Si Wan) leads his platoon during the Korean War in the early 1950s. During the war, Sang-yeok encounters a children’s choir who have lost everything due to the war. Emphasising with their plight, he tries to protect the children.
Tough Love 2015
Tough Love 2015
Härte (original title)
1h 29min | Biography, Drama | 23 April 2015 (Germany)
Storyline:
A karate expert recounts his early life, his turbulent childhood, rife with sexual abuse and a career as a pimp. Andreas “Karate Andy” Marquardt’s subsequent rehabilitation treatment, enables him to start life again with the one girl who suffered his worst abuse. He runs a karate school today for children to prove that its possible to turn over a new leaf.
Ji lian gou xian nai 1981
Ji lian gou xian nai 1981
Drama | 1 July 1981 (Hong Kong)
Storyline:
Ling’s parents were separated when she was young and she went abroad with her mother. Her brother Ding spends time in the youth detention centers and prisons of Hong Kong.
Georgica 1998
Georgica 1998
1h 49min | Drama | 14 October 1998 (Estonia)
Storyline:
Quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young mute boy is sent from the mainland to keep him company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about his younger days as a missionary in Africa.
Hillbilly Elegy 2020
Hillbilly Elegy 2020
R | 1h 56min | Drama | 24 November 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
Based on the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, HILLBILLY ELEGY is a modern exploration of the American Dream and three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale Law student forced to return to his hometown.
