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.
Yurt 2023
1h 56m | Drama | Release date: May 17, 2024 (Turkey)
Storyline:
Twelve-year-old Ahmet is devastated when his newly religious father sends him to an Islamic dormitory, a Yurt, to learn Muslim values. Recently converted, his father sees it as the righteous path for his son, and an opportunity for self-redemption. For Ahmet, it’s a nightmare. In 1997, the political polarization in Turkey makes for a charged atmosphere, with tensions between religious and secular Turks increasingly present. Devout Muslim are ostracized, and religious dormitories, “Yurt”s, are regularly raided by soldiers. Ahmet works hard to be the “perfect son” but it isn’t easy. He has trouble fitting in with rough kids at the Yurt, and feels isolated in his day secular school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend Hakan, a street-smart kid who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together they dream of being older and making their own decisions. Their friendship emboldens Ahmet, who becomes a target for the ire of Yakup Hodja, the dormitory manager. Hodja resents Ahmet’s family wealth, and believes his father has bought his way into the religious leaders’ good graces. His cruel treatment of Ahmet escalates until Ahmet’s father is forced to take action; Hodja is transferred. Only then, Ahmet recognizes he will never meet his father’s expectations. He decides to escape; together with Hakan, they steal a car and run away. What begins as the best day of their lives soon turns dangerous, and Ahmet is faced with a choice. Though neither his previous life nor the oppressive nature of the Yurt feel like home, he has to decide where he belongs.
I bambini di Gaza – Sulle onde della libertà 2024
1h 30m | Drama | Release date: March 28, 2024 (Italy)
Storyline:
In the midst of the war in Gaza during the Second Intifada in 2003, two boys, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along with a former surfing champion, form a friendship united by the love of water and learn from each other.
The Story of Me 2009
O Contador de Histórias (original title)
1h 40m | Drama | Release date: August 7, 2009 (Brazil)
Storyline:
O Contador de Histórias (The Story of Me), a Luiz Villaça;a movie based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, is a story about how affection can change reality. The youngest of 10 brothers, Roberto showed a special talent to tell stories, by changing through narrative his own experiences about frustration into beautiful and touching fables. At age 6, the boy filled with imagination goes to live in a newly opened government institution, which main goal is to help young and poor children. His mother takes him there believing it will guarantee a better future for her child. But the reality of the institution is very different from what was advertised on TV. Roberto, little by little, loses hope. At age 13, after hundreds of escapes, he’s considered “irrecoverable”, in the words of the headmaster of the facility. However, Roberto proves to be a challenge to the French pedagogue Margherit, who comes to Brazil to work on a research. Determined to make the boy her object of study, she tries to get closer to him. At first, Roberto struggles, but after a traumatic experience, he looks for shelter in Margherit’s home. What comes out of it is a relationship based on friendship and tenderness, that will put Roberto’s disbelief in his future at check and will challenge Margherit to keep her beliefs.
