100 days Before The Command 1991

100 days Before The Command 1991

100 days Before The Command 1991

100 days Before The Command 1991
Sto dney do prikaza (1991)
1h 11min | Drama | February 1991 (Soviet Union)

Storyline

Five young Soviet Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other. Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring, this film is Hussein Erkenov’s courageous and stinging indictment of Communisum. Banned by the Soviet censors upon its initial release the film had to be smuggled out of the country to make its world wide premier at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival.

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Initiation 2009

Initiation 2009

Initiation 2009
Blutsfreundschaft (original title)
1h 35min | Drama | 5 November 2009 (Austria)

Storyline:

16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he reminds him of his lost love.

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Little Gay Boy, chrisT is Dead 2012

Little Gay Boy, chrisT is Dead 2012

Little Gay Boy, chrisT is Dead 2012

Little Gay Boy, chrisT is Dead 2012
30min | Short, Drama | 14 October 2012 (France)

Storyline:

Jean Christophe lives with his mother, an English prostitute in Paris. He dreams of becoming a model. Over the course of a day, JC endures a series of abusive encounters that will change him forever. He goes from innocence to experience as he and his dreams are destroyed by those around him. The violence of the film is accentuated by the use of BDSM, Performance Art and Dance

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Freistatt 2015

Freistatt 2015

Freistatt 2015

Freistatt 2015
1h 44min | Drama | 25 June 2015 (Germany)

Storyline:

May 1968: Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, mini-skirts, sexual revolution, protests against the Vietnam War… While Germany sets off for a new era of freedom, rebellious fourteen-year-old Wolfgang gets sent to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children. There he shall be “educated” to become a decent boy. Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance against the brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of the wardens; he doesn’t allow them to get him down. But for how long can he manage to resist the system of violence and oppression without brutalising himself?

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O Fantasma 2000

O Fantasma 2000

O Fantasma 2000

O Fantasma 2000
O Fantasma (original title)
1h 27min | Drama | 20 October 2000 (Portugal)

Storyline:

Young and handsome Sergio works the night shift as a trash collector in Lisbon, Portugal. He can’t force himself to connect with his pretty female co-worker Fatima, who displays an avid interest in him, so instead Sergio roams the city with the trash company’s pet dog. Eventually Sergio becomes fascinated with a sleek motorcycle, and then also its owner, João – a young man totally indifferent to Sergio. The frustrated trash collector’s surfacing sexual desires unleash his darkest impulses, sending him down a dangerous path of violence, depravity and degradation.

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One Night in Oslo 2014

One Night in Oslo 2014

One Night in Oslo 2014
Natt til 17. (original title)
1h 23min | Drama, Romance | 4 April 2014 (Norway)

Storyline:

On the Eve of The Norwegian Day of Liberation – a whole nation is gearing up to get drunk and disorderly. Sam and Amir, two 15 year-old boys, have decided their night is going to be an epic. The boys have known each other almost all their lives, and are closer than brothers. But the next 24 hours will test the bonds of brotherhood. Sam has fallen for Thea, Amir’s ex-girlfriend. He knows he has to tell Amir, but doesn’t know how. When Sam finally summons up the courage to confess, Amir’s reaction is far worse than he could ever have imagined. The long night turns into chaos as Amir embarks on a revenge-fuelled journey of violence and destruction. Can Sam and Amir forgive each other or is this the end of their friendship?

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A Swedish Love Story 1970

A Swedish Love Story 1970

A Swedish Love Story 1970

Swedish Love Story 1970
En kärlekshistoria (original title)
1h 55min | Drama, Romance | 24 April 1970 (Sweden)

Storyline

Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.

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Baklava 2007

Baklava 2007

Baklava 2007
1h 46min | Adventure, Drama, Music | 25 June 2007 (Bulgaria)

Storyline

A country – in the heart of the Peninsula. Two brothers, separated by the timelessness of the Transition. A collage of an end neighborhood with a slew of funny characters, child’s fantasies and dark dreams – a quest through the intimate secrets of Bulgaria. Djore is 26, dresses in black, listens to drum & bass and does graffiti. Kotze is 9, wears a silver chain, steals, fights and loves pop-folk. In spite of their differences, the brothers hit the road in search of a buried treasure, willed to them by their grandmother. On the way they will encounter unbelievable adventures, unexpected characters and undiscovered truths;…

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