Hør her’a! 2023

Hør her'a! 2023

Hør her’a! 2023

Hør her’a! 2023
1h 26m | Drama, Family | Release date: September 15, 2023 (Norway)

Storyline:

Finally summer vacation. Teenager Mahmoud wants a relaxing summer when Uncle Ji comes to visit from Pakistan. He has to be responsible for being his Oslo guide, and little brother Ali has a secret that turns his whole life upside down.

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Setmana Santa 2021

Setmana Santa 2021

Setmana Santa 2021

Setmana Santa 2021
9m | Short, Comedy | Release date: June 13, 2021 (Spain)

Storyline:

Gerard and his sister spend Holy Week at their grandmother’s house. Thanks to her strict devotion, Gerard learns to love Jesus. However, she is not aware that her grandson is learning a lot more from that relationship.

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2022

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2022

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2022

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2022
1h 38m | Drama | Release date: September 8, 2023 (United States)

Storyline:

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an upcoming movie based of the coming-of-age young adult novel by American author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Set in El Paso, Texas in 1987, the novel follows two Mexican teenagers, Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza and Dante Quintana, their friendship, and their struggles with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and family relationships.

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Gewalten 2022

Gewalten 2022

Gewalten 2022

Gewalten 2022
2h 28m | Drama | Release date: May 11, 2023 (Germany)

Storyline:

Thirteen-year-old Daniel lives with his older brother and terminally ill father in a village plagued by rural exodus. There, the young people live their lives between rare bus stops, xenophobia, unemployment, illegal dog fights and chemical intoxicants, among other things. Daniel stands between childhood and adolescence, and in the face of the indifference and stagnation of his surroundings, he becomes the victim of inhuman conditions that force him into a painful loneliness.

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Vracenky 1991

Vracenky 1991

Vracenky 1991

Vracenky 1991
1h 34m | Drama | Release date: November 1, 1991 (Czechoslovakia)

Storyline:

In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes her mind when a show trial is held. She speaks about her dissatisfaction with the government and is immediately arrested. Honza is given to another family.

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All the Fires 2023

All the Fires 2023

All the Fires 2023

All the Fires 2023
Todos los incendios (original title)
1h 36m | Drama | Release date: August 6, 2023 (Switzerland)

Storyline:

Bruno, a struggling teenage pyromaniac flees the city and embarks on a journey in quest of a girl he met online who would force him to confront the death of his father and his sexuality-related uncertainties.

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Louis, enfant roi 1993

Louis, enfant roi 1993

Louis, enfant roi 1993

Louis, enfant roi 1993
2h 40m | Biography, Drama, History | Release date: April 21, 1993 (France)

Storyline:

The title of this major French costume drama means “Louis, child-king”, and indeed it’s a fascinating fresco about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the Sun-king at Versailles. It was a dark and violent period, when the Louvre (meaning ‘wolves hunt castle’, hunting was a major aristocratic pastime), then still the somewhat gloomy royal palace, was the battle field of palace intrigues while the regency was held by queen-mother Anne of Austria but the actual head of the royal government was the aging cardinal Giulio Mazirini (‘Mazarin’), the less-known Italian successor of Richelieu, who also introduced to the court and the kingdom a host of his countrymen from whom Louis would learn the passion for Italian culture, especially music which would flourish under the direction of Lully (but that later story is another movie, “Le Roi danse”). The elaborate script sketches the story of French power politics, too complicate and devious to summarize in any detail, but mainly from the viewpoint of the immature king under maternal guardianship, who probably didn’t comprehend half of the grave troubles focusing on the strife between the official Catholic church and those claiming freedom of religion, especially for the Huguenots, but in reality mainly driven by personal and family ambitions and the grip of nobles on the kingdom at the expense of the royal power, and climaxing in a full rebellion, known as the Fronde, which forces the royal family to flee for their lives, an experience that may have decided Louis to dedicate his reign to preventing a repeat by establishing absolutism as he did. Some narration is done by Louis’s younger brother Philip, the duke of Anjou, who seems smarter but as the spare heir is condemned to life in a golden cage, overshadowed by Louis while any ‘disrespect’ for his crowned sibling is punishable on the spot by strap lashes administered on his bare behind by a servant.

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Yaaba 1989

Yaaba 1989

Yaaba 1989

Yaaba 1989
1h 30m | Drama, Romance | Release date: August 23, 1989 (France)

Storyline:

A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her ‘Witch’ but Bila himself calls her ‘Yaaba’ (grandmother). When Bila’s cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana’s medicine who saves her.

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