Gribiche 1926
1h 53min | Drama | 2 April 1926 (France)
Storyline
A sincere working-class 13-year old in France is adopted by a well-meaning philanthropic millionairess from America — who promises his doting mother that the boy will have the finest education — but things are not so simple.
Goodbye Uncle Tom 1971
Addio zio Tom (original title)
2h 16min | Drama | 30 September 1971 (Italy)
Storyline:
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Mercury Plains 2016
R | 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5 January 2016 (USA)
Storyline:
A troubled young man runs away to Mexico, where he is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. Isolated in the desert, he proves himself by becoming The Captain’s top soldier, but questions the group’s true purpose. As the Mexican police close in, he realizes that his only way out is to escape back to America, but first he must outwit The Captain.
Europa messze van episode1 – 1994
Europa messze van episode1 – 1994
Storyline:
The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at the same time, presents an authentic vista of contemporary Central Europe. All the events are shown through his eyes. His odyssey is an amusing and grotesque tale of survival as well as a parable on the survival of the human spirit. He comes to grips with a hostile world with both humour and rage, imagination and innocence. Petru lives with his vegetarian father Mihai and his pianist mother Daniela, in a small idyllic village in the Carpathian Mountains. His best friends are his dog Ursu, with whom he shares all his joys and sorrows, and the buffalo Florica. One day the family has to leave the country for political reasons. A long journey to freedom full of thrills and adventures begins, which first leads them from Hungary to Austria. Here they are sent to a refugee camp where Petru’s parents are classified as economic refugees because they have no documents; they are be deported back to Romania. Petru flees on his own and has to encounter a number of dangerous situations. But there are also glimmers of hope when an old stationmaster and his wife from a tiny Bavarian village adopt him, nurse him back to health and enable him to integrate into a new community. But here too, the police are already on his tail…
Conversations on Serious Topics 2014
Conversations on Serious Topics 2014
Pokalbiai rimtomis temomis (original title)
1h 5min | Documentary, Drama, Family | January 2013 (Estonia)
Storyline:
Conversations On Serious Topics is a film without exterior action, props, landscapes or special effects. Its main characters are children and teenagers with a special ability to describe the surrounding world. Intimate conversations with them reveal the picture of the modern world – at times melancholic, at times comical, at times dramatic. Shot in a minimalist fashion, the film raises questions about loneliness, love, God, the world and human relations. “The world is people.” “Don’t you believe in God? I can teach you how to start believing…”
Im Spinnwebhaus 2013
Im Spinnwebhaus 2013
1h 30min | Drama, Fantasy | 31 March 2016 (Germany)
Storyline:
12-year-old Jonas takes on the responsibility for his two younger siblings when their mother abandons them. Alone and isolated inside the house, they start to drift away into their own fantastic world that soon becomes more like a haunted castle.
Le Diable Dans la Peau 2011
1h 22min | Drama | 27 March 2013 (France)
Storyline:
Over the course of a summer vacation, two brothers struggle with the harsh reality that the younger brother will be sent to a school for children with special needs when a new term begins. Continue reading
Freunde 2001
21min | Short, Drama | September 2001 (Italy)
Storyline:
Two sixteen year old boys, Marcos and Johannes, spend their days racing, wrestling, hanging out, watching videos and playing hide-and-seek at nights. A closeness develops between the two of them, which soon starts to become a calamity to their friendship.
