No Dogs Allowed 2024
1h 46m | Drama | Release date: November 17, 2024 (Estonia)
Storyline:
Fifteen-year-old Gabo seems like a regular teenager who goes to school, plays video games with his best friend, and does other things a normal teenager would do – except he’s not. He has tendencies he knows to be wrong, but cannot control. He befriends Dave, a much older man with his fantasies. Lines soon start to blur between a trusting friendship and being groomed. Once Dave is arrested on suspicion of statutory rape, Gabo must suddenly decide whether to testify against his mentor with the risk of exposing his secret.
Vier Frauen sind einfach zuviel 1992
1h 28m | Comedy | 1992
Storyline:
Tommi lives with his sister, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother-all under one roof. Tired of these women, Tommi flees to his father Hubert. The film portrays Tommi’s struggles with school, love, and the challenges of women.
The Boy with Pink Trousers 2024
Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa (original title)
1h 54m | Drama | Release date: October 10, 2024 (Italy)
Storyline:
On November 20, 2012, Andrea Spezzacatena, a boy who had just turned 15, took his own life. It was the first case in Italy of bullying and cyberbullying that led to the suicide of a minor. The triggering incident was his choice to wear a pair of red trousers, a gift from his mother, which turned pink due to a washing mishap. This movie is based on his story.
Európa messze van 1995
1h 45m | Drama, Family | 1995
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 Eastern 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 humor 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.
Herz aus Stein 1995
1h 30m | Drama | Release date: February 10, 1995 (Sweden)
Storyline:
An orphan who lives in the streets meets an ill old woman and her son who cares for his mother with the help of a polish nurse. This strange combination of personalities is the starting point for the development of even stranger relationships.
Unspoken 2024
1h 31m | Drama | Release date: March 14, 2024 (United Kingdom)
Storyline:
Follows a closeted teenager in a religious community who finds a love letter written to his grandfather by another man, so he sets out to find the person.
Alain raises his 12-years-old deaf son Milano all by himself and wants to give him a better life than he ever had. Milano is often left home alone, and seeks the company of neighbor Renée, a woman who seems to have it all. Their father-son relationship comes under pressure when Milano wants to meet his biological mother. All is about to change.
Fredy is a teenager who lives in the countryside and denies his homosexual inclinations. When rumors start circulating in the village, he decides to go to Havana, where he meets a group of people who help him realize that it is best to accept himself.
