Hanging Gardens 2022
Janain mualaqa (original title)
1h 57m | Drama | Release date: September 17, 2024 (Mexico)
Storyline:
When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, where friends become enemies and nothing is certain in an explosive mix of love, war and madness.
Salamandra 2008
1h 24m | Drama | Release date: April 21, 2010 (France)
Storyline:
Argentina during military dictatorship in the early 80s: Hoping for a new life after being released from prison, Alba takes her six-year-old son Inti with her to a remote hippie village in the foothills of the Andes. She settles in the house of a deceased physician and indulges in marijuana and free love. Inti, looking for support, and the other children in the community are on their own. Finally, Alba no longer endures the wild, chaotic life in the community. She emerges a small cabin without water and electricity. Threatened and humiliated by local peasant children, mother and son try to establish themselves under simplest conditions and make a new life for themselves.
City of Dreams 2023
1h 54m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: August 30, 2024 (United States)
Storyline:
City of Dreams follows Jesús, a young farmer in rural Mexico who dreams of playing for Club Puebla, his local soccer team. With the promise of training at a soccer camp in Los Angeles, Jesús is convinced by his father to leave home, but he soon discovers that he’s been sold to a sweatshop run out of a decrepit mansion in downtown Los Angeles. Jesús is then subjected to the grueling 18-hour work schedule dictated by El Jefe, a boss who promises freedom for those who complete their quotas, and whose brutality is motivated by his own desperation to provide for his family back in Mexico. Despite all, Jesús finds solace in Elena, a girl who was similarly betrayed and sent to America under the guise of attending a fashion school. When Elena goes missing and another co-worker, Carlitos, is severely beaten for confronting El Jefe, Jesús realizes his only way out is a daring escape.
Les trois fantastiques 2023
1h 35m | Drama | Release date: May 15, 2024 (France)
Storyline:
East of France, today. Max, a witty and brave 12-year-old, feels like he has two families instead of one. In and after school, he spends all his time with his two best friends Tom and Vivian, who are always there to make life easier for each other. Together, they are The Fantastic Three. His real family on the other hand, is messy, with a depressed single mother and a brother in jail. When Max’s brother returns home, more trouble arises. To save his brother from his own downfall, Max drags his friends with him into a seemingly inevitable spiral.
Jumping Ship 2001
1h 33m | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family | Release date: August 17, 2001 (United States)
Storyline:
Michael has big plans to show his cousin Tommy a good time aboard a luxury yacht–until he discovers that the one he chartered is actually an old rusted fishing boat. But they are forced to jump ship when modern-day pirates chase it, leaving them stranded on a desert island with the captain, Jake Hunter.
Shadows In Mind 2023
1h 29m | Thriller | Release date: June 28, 2023 (United States)
Storyline:
Simon, an LGBTQ crisis hot-line operator, is becoming increasingly cynical over the frivolous calls he keeps receiving. It’s all complaining and no actual crisis. Until one night when a young man named Danny calls in saying he is going to kill three other people before killing himself. Simon gets Danny to unravel his story of betrayal, the dark web and dangerous relationships.
Shopping 2013
1h 38m | Drama | Release date: May 30, 2013 (New Zealand)
Storyline:
In a small town in New Zealand, brothers Willie and Solomon deal with the ordinary desires of youth, a volatile father, and racial tensions before one, as a means of escape, is seduced to the criminal world by an engaging thief.
Zwischen Knast und Kinderzimmer – Jugendhaft in Russland 2020
Zwischen Knast und Kinderzimmer – Jugendhaft in Russland 2020
38m | Documentary | Release date: March 25, 2020 (Germany)
Storyline:
Serafimowka is a special boarding school in the middle of the Russian province. The 50 boys who go to school there all have a criminal past. The military drill starts every morning at 6.45 a.m. Sports, school lessons and kitchen service: Military hardness and iron discipline are said to make criminal youth ordinary citizens of Russia. The documentary shows the hard everyday life behind the boarding school walls.