Naked Animals 2020
Naked Animals 2020
Nackte Tiere (original title)
1h 23min | Drama | 17 September 2020 (Germany)
Storyline:
Five young people in provincial Germany. They run into each other and away from each other. They kiss and they fight. It’s their last winter together before they leave school, after that it’s stay or go. A feature film debut of enormous intensity.
Sun Children 2020
Sun Children 2020
Khorshid (original title)
1h 39min | Drama | 14 May 2021 (Spain)
Storyline:
This is the story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find a hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located.
Harmonica 1974
Harmonica 1974
Saz Dahani (original title)
1h 15min | Drama, Family | 1974 (Iran)
Storyline:
Set on the sun-drenched southern coast of Iran, from which director Amir Naderi hails, “Harmonica” begins as a young boy receives a musical present from abroad. Fascinated and envious, his friends make him the leader of the pack, as they compete for the privilege of holding the harmonica or even blowing a few notes. No one is more obsessed than Amiroo, gentle and heavy-set, who seems willing to do anything to get close to the harmonica and its owner. Few films have more powerfully depicted the cruelty that is also part of childhood, as games and horseplay take on an increasingly sinister edge.
A Very Serious Person 2006
A Very Serious Person 2006
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Drama | 28 April 2006 (USA)
Storyline:
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother’s death. A deep friendship grows between these two solitary people. By the end of the summer, Gil has developed a new maturity and independence, while the enigmatic Jan has revealed his own vulnerability.
Summer Daydream 2018
Summer Daydream 2018
Technicolour Daydream (original title)
1h 30min | Drama | 15 December 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
When the loss of his mom’s job threatens to uproot the only life he knows, Clark and friends enter a film contest to save his family’s home.
We Love Moses 2016
We Love Moses 2016
Not Rated | 15min | Short, Drama | October 2016 (UK)
Storyline:
When Ella was twelve, she had her first fight. And when she was twelve, she discovered sex. Now eighteen, Ella reflects on how her obsession with her older brother Michael’s best friend Moses left her with a secret she still carries.
Goodbye Soviet Union 2020
Goodbye Soviet Union 2020
Hüvasti, NSVL (original title)
1h 31min | Comedy | 10 July 2020 (Finland)
Storyline:
Johannes is born into an Ingrian-Finnish family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished – all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take over, the crocodile Genas and the Moskvitches are forced to step aside, leaving the road to the West wide open. Lauri Randla’s Goodbye, Soviet Union is a comedy about the adventures of the eccentric Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.
Ode to Billy Joe 1976
Ode to Billy Joe 1976
PG | 1h 46min | Drama | 4 June 1976 (USA)
Storyline:
In 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.
The Winter Lake 2020
The Winter Lake 2020
TV-MA | 1h 32min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 9 March 2021 (USA)
Storyline:
When Holly’s dark secret is accidentally uncovered by her new emotionally unstable neighbor Tom, they are pulled into a violent confrontation with her father, who will do anything to keep the secret hidden.
