The Littlest Horse Thieves 1976
The Littlest Horse Thieves 1976
Escape from the Dark (original title)
1h 44m | Drama, Family | Release date: August 1, 1976 (United Kingdom)
Storyline:
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine’s pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they’re caught, it’s up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what’s right.
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
1h 44m | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | Release date: March 15, 1972 (United States)
Storyline:
Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is “unstuck in time”, which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as a Chaplain’s assistant for his unit. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teen-aged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the planet Tralfamadore, along with his devoted dog Spot, and Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack – who was not averse to taking off her clothes to further her career – the Tralfamadorians who have put them on display. The more time he spends on Tralfamadore, the more he understands the meaning of what is happening to him.
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.
Sweet Journey 2011
Sweet Journey 2011
Yun xia de ri zi (original title)
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: March 8, 2011 (China)
Storyline:
Guizhou province, southern China, spring 1980. Schoolboys Zhao Qiangsheng (Ma Guoxing) and Fulai (Wang Shibin), who’ve spent their whole life in a remote village, hear from a PLA soldier about a thing called a “city”, full of people, buildings and cars, three mountains away. Full of curiosity, and with the orphaned Fulai fed up with being passed around the community, the two set off to reach it when their school is closed for five days…
Never Say Never 2023
Never Say Never 2023
Ba jiao long zhong (original title)
1h 57m | Action, Drama, Sport | Release date: July 6, 2023 (China)
Storyline:
The movie tells the story of Xiang Tenghui who devotes all his efforts to cultivating orphans children into fighter as they have no way out in life and give them a glimmer of hope. However, as his school becomes successful, an old video of the children’s performance is brought up to the light and threaten their entire way of life.
Portraits from a Fire 2021
Portraits from a Fire 2021
1h 32m | Comedy | Release date: October 3, 2021 (Canada)
Storyline:
An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels.
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?’.
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.
