Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012
1h 33m | Documentary, Biography | Release date: April 19, 2013 (Austria)

Storyline:

Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl at the beginning of the 1970’s. In my fathers, my mother and me the director Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, embarks on a personal journey into his past. Including archive material made public for the first time in this film, the director confronts himself and his mother with the question ‘What is family?’.

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Wolfkin 2022

Wolfkin 2022

Wolfkin 2022

Wolfkin 2022
Kommunioun (original title)
1h 30m | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | Release date: August 8, 2023 (United States)

Storyline:

Single mother Elaine is disturbed by her son Martin’s aggressive behaviour, she visits his late father’s estranged family in small-town Luxembourg, which hides a much darker nature. When she realizes that Martin could become like them, Elaine is forced into a desperate fight for her son’s future.

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Dear David 2023

Dear David 2023

Dear David 2023

Dear David 2023
1h 34m | Horror, Thriller | Release date: October 13, 2023 (Canada)

Storyline:

Shortly after comic artist Adam responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis – while an empty rocking chair moves in the corner of his apartment. As he chronicles increasingly malevolent occurrences in a series of tweets, Adam begins to believe he is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child named David. Encouraged by his boss to continue the “Dear David” thread, Adam starts to lose his grip on what is online… and what is real. Based on the viral Twitter thread by BuzzFeed comic artist Adam Ellis.

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Antibodies 2005

Antibodies 2005

Antibodies 2005

Antibodies 2005
Antikörper (original title)
2h 7m | Crime, Drama, Horror | Release date: July 7, 2005 (Germany)

Storyline:

Long wanted serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police strike. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him. He associates a brutal murder case with the killer’s method and hopes to close the case by getting a confession from Engel. Instead the clash of the two totally opposite characters shakes Michaels beliefs to the ground, turning him into a dangerous threat, an enemy to the people around him.

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Swallows and Amazons 1974

Swallows and Amazons 1974

Swallows and Amazons 1974

Swallows and Amazons 1974
1h 32m | Adventure, Family | Release date: June 14, 1974 (United Kingdom)

Storyline:

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.

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Rapito 2023

Rapito 2023

Rapito 2023

Rapito 2023
2h 14m | Drama, History | Release date: May 25, 2023 (Italy)

Storyline:

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

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The New Boy 2023

The New Boy 2023

The New Boy 2023

The New Boy 2023
1h 56m | Drama, History, Fantasy | Release date: July 6, 2023 (Australia)

Storyline:

Set in 1940s Australia, The New Boy is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
2h 23m | Adventure, Drama | Release date: March 30, 1984 (United States)

Storyline:

A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon afterwards. An ape enters the house and kills the father, and a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D’Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

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