Being Brave 2021

Being Brave 2021

Being Brave 2021

Being Brave 2021
19min | Short, Drama | 1 January 2021 (Canada)

Storyline:

Beckett, a precocious and resilient twelve-year-old, travels the bumpy road of a young boy living in complicated times. Beckett craves the love and acceptance of his divorced parents, but sees it jeopardized by the constant bullying he receives at school because of his father’s sexuality. Incensed by the latest homophobic taunts by his mother’s new boyfriend’s son – Spencer – Beckett reacts, standing up for himself and unleashing a chain of events that in his eyes will resolve the situation he finds himself in and keep him safe.

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Packages from Daddy 2016

Packages from Daddy 2016

Packages from Daddy 2016

Packages from Daddy 2016
1h 37m | Family | 18 November 2016 (Taiwan)

Storyline:

9-year-old Lan and his dad always enjoyed time together in Dad’s boat art shop. One day Lan came home and suddenly found Dad dies. Lan is shocked. Dad disappears forever. Sister never cries and refuses to speak to Mom. And Mom insists to prepare a seat for Dad every dinner as if Dad were alive. What is worse, Lan’s classmates often laugh at him. Lan starts fighting and running away from school. As life gets harsher, he receives a package. It is a strange-shaped clock which has stopped. Dad sent it before he dies. Lan visits many stores trying to fix the clock but in vain. He hope he will have answer for everything when he eventually solved the mystery of the clock…

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His 2020

His 2020

His 2020

His 2020
2h 7m | Drama, Family, Romance | 24 January 2020 (Japan)

Storyline:

Two boys met and fell in love with each other in their high school days. Then 13 years have passed – The two live in different places. Nagisa has left for Australia after breaking up with Shun. Nagisa got married a woman and have a child, but they have difficulties to continue their marriage. He is still in love with Shun then he goes back to Japan with his little girl to see him. This is the purest love story of two men and how they can survive from the discrimination and prejudice.

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Hullet 2021

Hullet 2021

Hullet 2021

Hullet 2021
30m | Short, Comedy | 20 September 2021 (Spain)

Storyline:

Elias is a young man who lives with his father, Frank, in a house out in the middle of nowhere. There, their lives revolve around filling a mysterious hole that keeps reappearing in the floor of their living room. Filling the hole during the day, and spending the evenings unwinding, seems perfectly fine for Frank, but Elias starts to question the meaning behind this life that Frank has decided for them. As Elias’ weariness grows, he confronts his father about wanting to do something else. Frank is a stubborn man, though, and Elias’ rebellion soon sees them butting heads.

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Cheer Boys 2019

Cheers Boys 2019

Cheers Boys 2019

Cheer Boys 2019
Chia danshi!! (original title)
1h 58m | Sport | 10 May 2019 (Japan)

Storyline:

After suffering from a shoulder injury, shy first-year university student Haruki Bandou gladly takes the opportunity to give up judo, failing to find happiness in the sport regardless of his family owning a dojo. However, he did not expect that his best friend Kazuma Hashimoto would also decide to leave their university’s judo club at the same time as him. Despite Haruki’s protests, Kazuma already has plans for a new and revolutionary activity: a cheerleading team made up of only men. Although heavily reluctant, Haruki ends up helping his friend set up the team. Through sheer determination, and with support from their newfound club members, Haruki and Kazuma persist in founding the Breakers, the first-ever all-male cheerleading team of Meishiin University, slowly making history in spite of the feminine tag attached to the sport of cheerleading and the prejudices, physical challenges, and self-doubts that inevitably follow.

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Run! T High School Basketball Club 2018

Run! T High School Basketball Club 2018

Run! T High School Basketball Club 2018

Run! T High School Basketball Club 2018
Hashire! T-kô Basket bu (original title)
1h 55m | Drama, Sport | 3 November 2018 (Japan)

Storyline:

Yoichi plays basketball at his junior high and is capable. He is granted a scholarship and attends a high school with a superlative basket team. Instead of welcoming the boy the students there decide to bully and harass the new player leading Yoichi to a new high school and basketball team. Expectedly, the basketball team is not the best. The team will have to soon play against the team from the school Yoichi was in before.

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Operation Arctic 2014

Operation Arctic 2014

Operation Arctic 2014

Operation Arctic 2014
Operasjon Arktis (original title)
1h 27m | Adventure, Family | 17 October 2014 (Norway)

Storyline:

Julia and her twin siblings Sindre and Ida have moved to a small town with their mother. Desperate to reach their father, who is working in southern Norway, they secretly jump aboard a helicopter flying in his direction. Unfortunately, the helicopter changes its route, and soon they find themselves lost and alone on a deserted island. Now the three are forced to face the epic powers of nature, as both blizzards and hungry polar bears threaten their very existence.

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Long Time No Sea 2018

Long Time No Sea 2018

Long Time No Sea 2018

Long Time No Sea 2018
1h 36m | Drama, Family, Musical | 15 June 2018 (Taiwan)

Storyline:

“The wind came, the ocean stayed, yet I am still here without you.” Raised by his grandma, Ma Na Wei has lived a frugal life on Lanyu (Orchid Island). At the Tao tribe community’s elementary school, a newly qualified teacher, Yu Zhongxun, sees the tiny island as a backward and boring place. He desperately wants to get back to his former colorful metropolitan life. Yu saw an opportunity to get a decent performance evaluation by having the students participate in the annual Aboriginal Dance Competition. As the students and teachers work to prepare for the competition, they explore their potentials and reclaim their lost pride and courage.

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