Historien om en søn 2022
43m | Drama, Short | Release date: January 31, 2022 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Eleven-year-old and quiet Justas lives a quiet life in the countryside with his mother, who is in a wheelchair. When Justas falls in love with a mysterious girl, he discovers his mother’s secret.
A twelve-year-old boy, Sivanandhan, his mother, sister, and friend navigate life’s challenges, where a plantain tree, Vaazhai, becomes a central presence.
Do You Want to Die in Indio? 2024
1h 41m | Drama | Release date: October 4, 2024 (United States)
Storyline:
Follows Salvi, a 17-year-old whose life gets complicated when his dreams are derailed by an enterprising drug dealer, an ethically challenged mentor, and a budding romance.
White Bird 2023
2h 1m | Biography, Drama, Family, War | Release date: October 4, 2024 (United States)
Storyline:
In R. J. Palacio’s bestselling collection of stories Auggie and Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère’s heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Miss Entebbe 2003
1h 20m | Drama | Release date: July 31, 2003 (Israel)
Storyline:
Jerusalem 1976, a coming of age story about a confused girl, set against the Entebbe airplane hijacking.13- year-old Noa, is convinced she can free her friend’s mom by kidnapping an Arab boy. Instead, she finds herself involved in a dangerous adventure that quickly develops a life of its own, and becomes deadly serious. Noa and her neighbor friends try to follow the adults patterns of behavior but, while entering the turmoil of political conflict and hatred, they discover that the solution is not to be found in the violent adult arena, but rather within their own hearts.
Camera is the story of a young boy Oscar, who is unable to speak, as he struggles to adapt to the small fishing town he has just moved to with his widowed, and hard-working mom, Evelyn. Brought together by a broken format film camera, an unlikely friendship is formed between Oscar and a kind old repair shop owner, Eric. With the local fishing industry in decline, the town is fiercely divided whether to stake their future on building a luxury hotel, bringing in new jobs, or fight to keep the way things have been done for generations. With Eric’s guidance and mentorship, Oscar captures the goodness in people, and in doing so heals a wounded community.
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.