Amissa Anima 2021

Amissa Anima 2021

Amissa Anima 2021

Amissa Anima 2021
15m | Short, Drama | 4 June 2022 (Australia)

Storyline:

In the early 1980’s in St Kilda, a network of pedophiles preyed on street kids as young as 10 years old. The boys who survived this trauma, now as adults have shared their stories and collaborated in writing a short screen drama in a journey to personal and social healing. Four boys survive on the night streets of St Kilda in the 1980s, turning tricks for a feed and drugs. The fragile balance is broken when an act of betrayal pushes them to perform an unspeakable act.

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A Place Called Dignity 2021

A Place Called Dignity 2021

A Place Called Dignity 2021

A Place Called Dignity 2021
Un lugar llamado dignidad (original title)
1h 39m | Drama | 15 August 2021 (Chile)

Storyline:

Pablo, a 12-year-old boy, receives a scholarship to attend school in the mysterious and isolated Colonia Dignidad, established in Chile by German settlers. He quickly becomes the favorite of the leader of the colony, Uncle Paul. Over time, Pablo witnesses the strangest things that happen there: abuse, disappearances and demon-like creatures used to scare children. But in this wicked world, a revolution is brewing, and it may be the only way for Pablo to get out.

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Bari Theke Paliye 1958

Bari Theke Paliye 1958

Bari Theke Paliye 1958

Bari Theke Paliye 1958
2h 4m | Drama | 24 June 1958 (India)

Storyline:

Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, till he reaches there. But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city. He himself has to struggle for survival and experiences life as it is, only to go back to his village home. This time as a mature person and with the realization that his father is no demon after all, but yet another victim struggling with poverty and still a loving father.

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Buenos Aires 100 Km (2004)

Buenos Aires 100 Km (2004)

Buenos Aires 100 Km (2004)

Buenos Aires 100 Km (2004)
1h 33m | Drama | 10 February 2005 (Argentina)

Storyline:

An Argentine “Stand By Me”, Buenos Aires KM 100 is a touching story about five friends growing from childhood into adolescence. The small quiet town they live in doesn’t have much to offer and can’t fulfill their curiosity.

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Nobody’s Child 2021

Nobody's Child 2021

Nobody’s Child 2021

Nobody’s Child 2021
L’enfant de personne (original title)
1h 38m | Biography, Drama | 17 February 2021 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Lyes, a young boy, is brutally torn away from Emilie, the foster mother who took in him as a baby, and who nevertheless wishes to adopt him. The child thus finds himself confronted with the violence of the homes of the ASE(CPS in USA), which refuses to cut the link with the biological mother, yet unable to take care of him. Agathe, Emilie’s sister, has never abandoned the child. She will fight against the system to try to maintain a link with him, determined to take him home to help him rebuild …

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Hornets’ Nest 1970

Hornets' Nest 1970

Hornets’ Nest 1970

Hornets’ Nest 1970
1h 50m | Action, Drama, War | 9 September 1970 (USA)

Storyline:

A commando unit is dropped behind the German lines in Italy and its mission is to blow up a strategic dam. However, the unit is ambushed and only its leader survives. He is picked up by a ragtag group of local youths, who strike a bargain with him–they will help him blow the dam if he will help them get revenge on the Germans, who have taken over their village and killed their parents.

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