Little Bird 2014

Little Bird 2014

Little Bird 2014

Little Bird 2014
Ptichka (original title)
1h 30min | Drama | 9 November 2014 (Germany)

Storyline:

When does your childhood go away? It goes away when instead of playing football with other kids you sit down and silently contemplate the river. When your thoughts don’t let you sleep, and a lightning bug beats in a pot like a heart. When poems come into your mind and you feel you really need to sing. It goes away when you suddenly realize: this summer is going away and it is the last summer of your childhood.

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My Girl 2003

My Girl 2003

My Girl 2003

My Girl 2003
Fan chan (original title)
1h 50min | Comedy, Romance | 2003 (Thailand)

Storyline:

Jeab hears that his childhood sweetheart Noi-Naa is to be married, so he makes the trip back home to his provincial village. As he does so, the memories come flooding back to his childhood in 1980s Thailand. He remembers always being late to school, so his father would have to give him a ride on the back of the motorcycle. After school, he would always play with Noi-Naa and her girlfriends while the neighborhood boys rode their bicycles and played football and Chinese fantasy characters.

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Les Misérables 2019

Les Misérables 2019

Les Misérables 2019

Les Misérables 2019
Les misérables (original title)
R | 1h 44min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 15 May 2019 (France)

Storyline:

A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.

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Out Stealing Horses 2019

Out Stealing Horses 2019

Out Stealing Horses 2019

Out Stealing Horses 2019
Ut og stjæle hester (original title)
12 | 2h 3min | Drama, Mystery | 2020 (USA)

Storyline:

November 1999: 67-year-old Trond (Stellan Skarsgård), lives in self-imposed isolation and looks forward to welcoming in the new millennium alone. As winter arrives he meets one of his few neighbors, Lars (Bjørn Floberg), and realizes he knew him back in the summer of 1948. 1948 – the year Trond turned 15. The summer Trond grew up. OUT STEALING HORSES is based on the bestselling novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson, which received several important international awards and was included in The New York Times ’10 Best Books of 2007 (Fiction)’. Petterson’s novels have been translated into more than 50 languages.

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Suburban Birds 2018

Suburban Birds 2018

Suburban Birds 2018

Suburban Birds 2018
Jiao qu de niao (original title)
1h 58min | Drama | 30 August 2019 (China)

Storyline:

Some ground subsidence has occurred in a suburban area and a team of engineers, including Hao, is dispatched to investigate the cause. After days of wandering around in the empty suburb looking for answers and carrying his heavy gear, Hao walks into a primary school where he finds a diary chronicling the story of a boy and the separation of what seems to be an intimate group. As the investigation keeps going, Hao discovers that this diary might contain prophecies about his own life.

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Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)

Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)

Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)

Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)
Not Rated | 1h 46min | Documentary, War | 8 October 2004 (Finland)

Storyline:

A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children’s refugee camp.

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The German Lesson 2019

The German Lesson 2019

The German Lesson 2019

The German Lesson 2019
Deutschstunde (original title)
2h 10min | Drama | 3 October 2019 (Germany)

Storyline:

Siggi Jepsen is in Germany after the war in an institution for difficult to educate young people. He is to write an essay on the subject “The pleasures of duty”, but has no idea. Only when he is locked in a cell the next day, the memories of his childhood during the Second World War break out of him: His father Jens Ole Jepsen, a police officer, was then commissioned to bring the friendly expressionist painter Ludwig Nansen a professional ban , At Nansen’s surveillance, Siggi was supposed to help him at the time, but eventually he rebelled against his father, sided with the recalcitrant Nansen and hid some of the forbidden pictures, eventually leading to his stay in the asylum.

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