The Boy, the Dog and the Clown 2019
1h 30min | Family | 3 December 2019 (USA)
Storyline:
A young boy, Adrien, grieving over the loss of his father, meets a sad, down-on-his-luck clown who can perform incredible feats of magic. After Adrien gets lost in the woods, the boy learns that he must use the magical powers taught to him by the the clown in order to be rescued. A story of healing, courage — and most of all — the power of knowing that magic is real for those who believe.
Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father.
Landet af glas 2018
1h 26min | Family, Fantasy | 19 July 2018 (Denmark)
Storyline:
The Danish fantasy film ‘The Land of Glass’ is about the young boy Jas who lives alone in a closed gardener with his father, a truck driver and often away.
Tim (Ilyes Moutaoukkil) and Willi (Lorenzo Germeno), called dumplings, get to know each other at the boarding school on the first day of school. The two could hardly be more different and especially Willi, son of a good family, is not happy to share a room with Tim, a fellow from the suburbs. But when Dumplings father is abducted and with him a valuable statue disappears from his art collection, Tim is the only one who believes Willi, that the police is on the wrong track. Together with the highly intelligent outsider Karl (Manuel Santos Gelke) and the smart policewoman Gaby (Emma-Louise Schimpf), the group begins to investigate on its own: a plane crash, masked kung fu fighters, a hidden message from dumpling father. How does this all come together? And what do the blind psychics Raimondo (Milan Peschel) and his assistant Amanda (Mai Duong Kieu) have to do with it? Against all odds the four discover a conspiracy.
Balloon is a German thriller that deals with the crossing of the inner German border of the families Strelzyk and Wetzel from the GDR to West Germany with a homemade hot-air balloon.
A Time to Remember 1988
G | 1h 17min | Drama, Music | 26 August 1988 (USA)
Storyline:
It is small town America in the 1950’s. Twelve year-old Angelo Villano has one dream: to someday sing like his idol, Mario Lanza. His grandmother, Mama Theresa encourages him; and his beautiful voice catches the attention of the formidable but kind Father Walsh who arranges for him to receive formal training. This infuriates Angelo’s widowed father, Frank, who wants his son to be a steelworker like him. Determined to “make a man out of him”, Frank forbids Angelo from singing. When Angelo is chased by bullies into the path of an oncoming car, he recovers all but his voice, retreating into a silent world that no one can touch. One night, locked in the church basement, the frightened Angelo experiences a spectacular vision, a true Christmas miracle, that changes his life. And when his vision and his voice return during Christmas Eve Mass, no one can deny the beauty and blessing of his amazing gift.
Daemon 1985
1h 5min | Family, Horror | TV Movie 22 December 1986
Storyline:
11-year-old Nick moves into a large old house with his sisters Jennie and Clare, left in the care of Helga the Swedish au pair while their parents are away in America. Nick is unhappy at his new school, where he is befriended by a boy named Sam and intimidated by scripture teacher Mr. Crabb, who is interested in the occult and demonology. Nick hears voices in the house and receives messages on his computer screen; he also suffers inexplicable blisters on his feet and grazes on his elbows and knees. When he dreams of burning and wakes up in a bed full of ashes, Nick tells a psychiatrist that he feels he is possessed by a demon. Three of his schoolmates agree, and when Crabb dies in a freak accident, resolve to drive a stake through his heart. However, the cause of the haunting turns out to be Tom, a child chimney sweep from 1839 who was burned to death in the house’s chimney.
Burning Secret 1988
PG | 1h 46min | Drama | 23 December 1988 (USA)
Storyline:
While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat’s lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war experiences, the baron reveals the scar of a wound from an American soldier and thrusts a pin through it, saying “see– no feeling.” Little does the boy realize that it is his turn to be wounded. But soon his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother. The boy’s jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable.
