Name Me Lawand 2022

Name Me Lawand 2022

Name Me Lawand 2022

Name Me Lawand 2022
1h 31m | Documentary | Release date: July 7, 2023 (Ireland)

Storyline:

Void of any language, communication or true sense of self, Lawand struggles to piece together his surroundings in his new home in Derbyshire, England after a traumatic and turbulent year of seeking asylum through Europe.

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Ronja Rövardotter 2024 (s01)

Ronja Rövardotter 2024

Ronja Rövardotter 2024

Ronja Rövardotter 2024 (s01)
TV Series | Adventure, Drama, Family | 2024

Storyline:

Ronja tells the tale of a ten-year-old girl born on a stormy night in a mountain fort, surrounded by her parents and a loving band of robbers. Ronja grows to be a strong and active girl, and discovers that the forest is both a beautiful and frightening place inhabited by strange creatures. She befriends the son of her father’s rival and so begins the drama of her friendship and family loyalties.

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Good Luck Kekec 1963

Good Luck Kekec 1963

Good Luck Kekec 1963

Good Luck Kekec 1963
Srecno, Kekec! (original title)
1h 18m | Adventure, Family | Release date: December 1, 1963 (Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

Two boys, Kekec and Rozle, come to serve a farmer, with a blind daughter Mojca, as shepherds. As the night falls, the two boys start talking about a woman who lives in the mountains and is supposed to steal children. Her name is Pehta. In the morning, Kekec, Rozle and Mojca go to an Alpine cottage and Kekec promises Mojca that he will find her a remedy for her eyes. As the girl is picking flowers, Pehta arrives and takes Mojca into her cottage. She wants to keep Mojca because of her singing. Pehta is a woman herbalist and she finds a rare flower in the mountain, from which she makes a remedy for Mojca’s eyes. Kekec and Rozle start looking for Mojca and they find Pehta’s cottage. Rozle is so frightened that he runs away, but brave Kekec climbs trough the thatched roof of Pehta’s cottage and runs away with Mojca. Pehta sends her dog – Volk (Wolf) to hunt them down, but they manage to escape it. The timid Rozle tells at home that Pehta’s dog probably ate Kekec and Mojca. Mojca’s father and villagers start looking for them. Pehta’s sees them coming, burns her cottage down and hides. Meanwhile, Kekec brings Mojca home and as she is telling her mother that Pehta has a cure for her blindness, Kekec runs out of the house and lets himself be caught by Pehta. She takes him into her cave and tells him that she would have cured Mojca if he didn’t took her away. She keeps Kekec as a servant and tells Volk to watch him as she leaves to collect flowers. Kekec makes friends with Volk and starts searching the cave for the remedy. Pehta catches him in the act, beats her dog for not obeying her and shows to Kekec that she’s carrying the bottle with the remedy around her neck. The villagers are looking for Kekec, Pehta hears them and Kekec tries to get the bottle, but she throws it in the abyss in anger. Kekec escapes from the cave and finds the bottle undamaged. Pehta sets her dog on him but Volk starts barking on her. Kekec returns to the cave, shows the bottle to Pehta and she tells him, how to use the remedy – just three drops in each eye. Kekec returns home with Volk, find Mojca sleeping and pours the remedy in her eyes. She wakes up and finds out that she can see. Kekec leaves the farm with his dog.

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The Sandlot 3 (2007)

The Sandlot 3 (2007)

The Sandlot 3 (2007)

The Sandlot 3 (2007)
1h 36m | Family, Sport | Release date: May 1, 2007 (United States)

Storyline:

Successful, arrogant baseball superstar Tommy “Santa” Santorelli travels back in time to 1976 and relives his boyhood days on the sandlot baseball team, and has the chance to this time choose friendship over glory.

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Noci sonanti 2019

Noci sonanti 2019

Noci sonanti 2019

Noci sonanti 2019
1h 19m | Documentary | Release date: 2020 (Italy)

Storyline:

Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other 65, are the core of a community that renounces every civilising comfort. Damiano Giacomelli and Lorenzo Raponi observe the life of the ‘Noci Sonanti’ over one summer marked by sun-drenched days and newborn cats.

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Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941
Mikaheri no tô (original title)
1h 52m | Drama | Release date: January 30, 1941 (Japan)

Storyline:

Problem kids come to a reformatory school where they live, study and work. Here there are no fences and no one is ever beaten. The kids steal, play pranks, run away and help fix a water problem. Reformed kids introspect and go back home.

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Bogus 1996

Bogus 1996

Bogus 1996

Bogus 1996
1h 50m | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | Release date: September 6, 1996 (United States)

Storyline:

Seven year-old Albert is the son of a Las Vegas circus performer. When she is killed in a car wreck, Albert is sent to live with his mother’s foster sister, Harriet Franklin, a no-nonsense businesswoman struggling in New Jersey. Albert hates it with the dour Harriet, but takes refuge in the company of Bogus, a flamboyant, gentle, loving, and altogether imaginary Frenchman. With Bogus’s help, Albert can perhaps come to terms with his mother’s death, and Harriet with her own loss of childhood innocence.

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Monster 2023

Monster 2023

Monster 2023

Monster 2023
Kaibutsu (original title)
2h 7m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: June 02, 2023 (Japan)

Storyline:

A suburban town with a large lake. A single mother who loves her son, a school teacher who cares about her students, and innocent children lead a peaceful life. One day, a fight breaks out at school. It looked like a common fight between children, but their claims differed, and it gradually developed into a big deal involving society and the media. Then one stormy morning, the children suddenly disappear.

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The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970
34m | Animation, Short, Horror | Release date: July 1970 (United States)

Storyline:

An imaginative lad of about ten has a couple of problems: he wets his bed, and his parents are abusive and disgusting. In a spare room, he finds a bag of seeds, which he plants in soil that he’s placed in the middle of a single bed. The seed sprouts and grows into a grandmother, who’s loving and approving. Life with his parents and with his imagination continues. Is a smiling grandmother enough to get him through?

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