The Eight Mountains 2022
The Eight Mountains 2022
Le otto montagne (original title)
2h 27m | Drama | Release date: December 14, 2022 (Belgium)
Storyline:
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
School Ties 1992
School Ties 1992
1h 46m | Drama | Release date: September 18, 1992 (United States)
Storyline:
David Greene is brought into a prestigious 1950s school to help their football team to beat the school’s old rivals. David, however, is from a working class background, so he isn’t really “one of them”, but he’s very successful at making friends. David is a Jew, and has to keep this a secret from his friends for fear of being rejected.
Chin Up, Dude! 2022
Chin Up, Dude! 2022
Steh auf du Sau! (original title)
29m | Short, Sport | Release date: January 20, 2022 (Germany)
Storyline:
Geri has made the leap from the junior team to the first squad. But he can’t find the words to express how greatly he’s intimidated by soccer, the search for meaning, and the pressure to perform.
El niño de los mandados 2021
El niño de los mandados 2021
1h 32m | Drama | Release date: October 22, 2021 (Mexico)
Storyline:
Alfonso is an 11 Y.O child who loses his mother suddently in the earlies 50’s being forced to leave the school and start working as the Errand boy of the one and only pharmacy in town. He starts learning all the basic stuff about medecine changing his life dramatically.
Denti da squalo 2023
Denti da squalo 2023
1h 44m | Drama | Release date: June 8, 2023 (Italy)
Storyline:
It follows 13-year-old Walter, who has lost his father. As he wanders around the Roman coast, an abandoned villa with a huge, murky swimming pool catches his eye, but it is not unguarded.
Paljas 1997
Paljas 1997
1h 59m | Drama | Release date: January 23, 1997 (South Africa)
Storyline:
A family’s life in the Karoo (a semi-desert area in South Africa) is changed when a travelling circus leaves behind a clown.
Lupu 2013
Lupu 2013
1h 17m | Drama | Release date: October 4, 2013 (Romania)
Storyline:
Wolf is a lonely boy who surrounds himself by a world that responds to his desires. He brings Clara, the girl he loves, inside this world but when he can’t be sure if she is still real or become imaginary he feels trapped and wants to escape.
Wild Youth 2022
Wild Youth 2022
18m | Short | 2022
Storyline:
Wild Youth tells the story of Bram, a 12-year-old boy during the two weeks he spends on a campground with his 25-year-old uncle. In this temporary arena where the emptiness of the calm campsite induces a sense of invincibility, he is immersed in unlimited fun, new experiences and a first vacation love at the hands of his new friends. In short, the bliss of being young.
Mammo 1994
Mammo 1994
2h 10m | Drama | Release date: June 8, 1994 (India)
Storyline:
13 year old Riyaz lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay, India, with his grandmother, Fayyuzi, and her sister, Mehmooda alias Mammo. Quite outspoken and embittered over his dad abandoning him, Riyaz does not have many friends, save for Rohan. When Mammo plans a surprise birthday party for him, Riyaz is offended as he believes his friends will make fun of him as his lifestyle is not as good as their’s. Fayyuzi and Riyaz have an argument with Mammo, and she leaves for the Mosque at Haji Ali, but returns when both apologize to her. Although Mammo was born in Panipat during the British Raj, she was one of thousands of Muslims who left for Pakistan. She was married over there, could not conceive, was branded a “barren woman”, and asked to leave. Having nowhere else to go, she came to live with her widowed sister in Bombay on a temporary Visa. Every month she would walk to the nearest Police Station and get an extension. She finally paid a Rs.4800/ as a bribe in order to get a permanent visa through Inspector Apte. When Apte was transferred, a new Police Inspector took over, processed her papers, held her to be an illegal immigrant, arrested her, had her escorted to the Bombay Central Railway Station, board the Frontier Mail, which would return her to Pakistan. Riyaz and Fayyuzi make every possible attempt to trace and bring her back, which was all in vain. Now 20 years later, Riyaz has grown up and has written a book about his Mammo, hoping that someday, somewhere she will find it and they will be reunited again.
