The Surface 2015

The Surface 2015

The Surface 2015

The Surface 2015
1h 19m | Drama, Romance | 27 June 2015 (USA)

Storyline:

Evan Jones, a child orphan who, for years, was shifted from one foster home to another. Now a disaffected college student, he lives with his wealthy boyfriend, Chris. Their social and financial disparities have made their relationship increasingly volatile despite their mutual love for one another. While sifting through old relics at an elderly man’s yard sale, Evan finds an 8mm movie camera. The man offers to teach Evan how to use it if he comes back the following week. Upon returning, Evan meets the man’s 43-year-old son, Peter. They strike up a conversation and Peter gives him reels of old 8mm movies that are collecting dust in the garage. The home movies, featuring a young Peter and his boyhood friend touch a nerve with Evan. Their youthful flirtations and tenderness are uncomplicated and pure. Evan begins to live vicariously through the home movies and his friendship with Peter soon turns romantic. Evan’s relationship with his boyfriend, Chris splinters as he pushes for greater understanding of himself and the notions of family, love and fulfillment.

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Summer Rebels 2020

Summer Rebels 2020

Summer Rebels 2020

Summer Rebels 2020
1h 33m | Family | 13 August 2020 (Slovakia)

Storyline:

Slovakian school boy Jonas (11) won’t take no for an answer from his widow mother to spend the Summer holiday with his cool paternal grandfather, widower Bernard. The old man isn’t amused to find out being tricked, but still enjoys his company, only won’t let him have the rowing boat the kid knows was around and wants to take to the river. Jonas also finds a local friend his age, Alex, to play and prank and plot to get the/a boat, until Jonas learns Berard’s true trauma with it.

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Brothers of the Night 2016

Brothers of the Night 2016

Brothers of the Night 2016

Brothers of the Night 2016
Brüder der Nacht (original title)
1h 28m | Documentary | 7 September 2016 (Austria)

Storyline:

Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that’s all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.

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Boys Soccer Club 2009

Boys Soccer Club 2009

Boys Soccer Club 2009

Boys Soccer Club 2009
Meninos de Kichute (original title)
1h 38m | Adventure, Drama, Family | 2009

Storyline:

In the nineteen seventies, right after Brazil became three times world champion, the best outfit for kids to play soccer was to wear a pair of Kichute, a simple soccer tennis shoes made with cleats on the sole. Every kid in the village who wants to be part of the boys soccer club had to wear them. And that throws Beto into a right of passage test. He has to prove he’s ready to face his own problems at his school’s bulling attacks, his soccer games rematch against kids from other villages, and most important, he has to deal with his father’s demand, who wants him to go to work after school instead of playing soccer. Beto’s passion for his dreams drives him through a teen adventure to become a boy growing up with an unforgettable life experience.

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A Boy Called Sailboat 2018

A Boy Called Sailboat 2018

A Boy Called Sailboat 2018

A Boy Called Sailboat 2018
1h 32m | Comedy, Drama, Family | 6 May 2019 (UK)

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A Hispanic family find hope in their extraordinary son named Sailboat when a personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a “little guitar”, Sailboat leads an offbeat cast into the miraculous story of the greatest secret never told.

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The Kumite 2009

The Kumite 2009

The Kumite 2009

 

The Kumite 2009
45m | Documentary, Action, Sport | 1 January 2009 (Ukraine)

Storyline:

Maximus is twelve and captain of the National Ukrainian Karate Full-Contact Youth Team. They are the underdog favorites as they prepare and go into the ring against the much more experienced Russian team in the Europe Karate Finals. With his father as coach played by real life Dad, Victor, he fights his own fears of defeat and leads his team into an impossible win. All new-comers to the screen will delight you with their talent in Martial arts. You will be cheering for Maximus in the final bout. Viewer discretion is advised for fighting scenes and language.

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The Gorilla Kid 1977

The Gorilla Kid 1977

The Gorilla Kid 1977

The Gorilla Kid 1977
El rey de los gorilas (original title)
1h 42m | Action, Adventure, Family | 14 July 1977 (Mexico)

Storyline:

A small boy abandoned in the jungle and raised by a benevolent group of apes slowly begins to realize that he isn’t quite like the rest of his primate family in this touching meditation on the bond shared between man and beast.

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Julia 1974

Julia 1974

Julia 1974

Julia 1974
Es war nicht die Nachtigall (original title)
1h 23m | Drama | 28 November 1974 (West Germany)

Storyline:

It’s summer, and the air is quivering with passion, as teenager Pauli, who stays at boarding school travels to a small seaside town to enjoy the holidays with his family. On the train he gets to know the attractive woman, in whose compartment he sits down immediately after he has risked a glimpse into the section of the sleeping beauty. A little later, she vanishes and has sex with a stranger on the train toilet. He is thunderstruck at the train station when his father picks up not only him but also her. The unfaithful blonde, Yvonne is obviously the mistress of his own father. The mood in the villa is heated up from the beginning sexually: His womanizer father and sexy Yvonne, a crazy grandmother, Mimi, a cuckolded uncle, Alex his oversexed lesbian wife, Myriam and the lesbian maid, Silvana. Soon he meets his old neighbor Julia, who turns out to be an 18-year-old beauty. Like Pauli, she is still a virgin, but perhaps this summer, when they both lose their innocence, will be to each other. But there are several who are looking for the young beauty. Not least Pauli’s own father.

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