Young Love 2001

Young Love 2001

Young Love 2001

Young Love 2001
1h 20min | Drama, Romance | August 31, 2001 (Finland)

Storyline:

Jukka, 13, is coached in photography by his openly gay art teacher. With his dead father’s old camera, Jukka sees Johanna, a beautiful girl in her early twenties being physically abused by her stepfather. With the help of the local fire department, Jukka comes to her rescue. He quickly befriends the girl who works in a nearby supermarket, claims to become her manager and enters her in a beauty contest.

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Karla & Katrine 2009

Karla & Katrine 2009

Karla & Katrine 2009

Karla & Katrine 2009
Karla og Katrine (original title)
1h 27min | Family | 6 February 2009 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Karla invites Katrine to spend the holidays with her, hoping they might become best friends. As it turns out, nothing goes as planned. Karla meets Jonas and falls in love for the first time, and she nearly forgets all about Katrine. However, the two girls are forced to put their difficulties aside for a while, as they join Jonas in exposing a local gang of thieves.

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Goodbye Soviet Union 2020

Goodbye Soviet Union 2020

Goodbye Soviet Union 2020

Goodbye Soviet Union 2020
Hüvasti, NSVL (original title)
1h 31min | Comedy | 10 July 2020 (Finland)

Storyline:

Johannes is born into an Ingrian-Finnish family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished – all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take over, the crocodile Genas and the Moskvitches are forced to step aside, leaving the road to the West wide open. Lauri Randla’s Goodbye, Soviet Union is a comedy about the adventures of the eccentric Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

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Sune’s Summer 1993

Sune's Summer 1993

Sune’s Summer 1993

Sune’s Summer 1993
Sunes sommar (original title)
1h 23min | Comedy, Family | 25 December 1993 (Sweden)

Storyline:

It’s summer and Sune Anderssons family is planning a holiday in Greece. Sunes father, Rudolf is sulking because then he won’t be able to go on his beloved fishing trip. But after seeing how much the Greek trip is going to cost, he comes up with a great idea: Let’s go on a camping trip instead. A lot is happens during this trip and after a while Rudolf discovers that the camping trip might not be as cheat as he thought.

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Young Hearts 2020

Young Hearts 2020

Young Hearts 2020

Young Hearts 2020
Thunderbolt in Mine Eye (original title)
1h 35min | Drama, Romance | 12 February 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

Harper enters high school and sparks a relationship with her brother’s best friend, Tilly. While Harper deals with social blowback, the older Tilly is congratulated, setting up a very modern love story in the age of Time’s Up and Me Too.

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Emberatoriet meem 1972

Emberatoriet meem 1972

Emberatoriet meem 1972

Emberatoriet meem 1972
1h 53min | Drama, Family | 1 July 1972 (Egypt)

Storyline:

Well off widow working Mother “Mona” is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new husband home proves to be a very difficult task.

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Dotýkání 2020

Dotýkání 2020

Dotýkání 2020

Dotýkání 2020
39min | Short | Czech Republic, 2020

Storyline:

Behind the door of David and Mark’s room lies the secret of their mutual self-discovery. But when Mark’s childhood curiosity disappears through adolescence, he realizes that they have crossed the line of brotherly love, which the younger David is not yet able to understand

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Buffalo Rider 2015

Buffalo Rider 2015

Buffalo Rider 2015

Buffalo Rider 2015
1h 34min | Adventure, Drama | 23 September 2016 (South Korea)

Storyline:

A rebellious Thai-American girl, sent to live with relatives in rural Thailand, clashes with an entire village when she befriends a mute peasant boy and inspires him to compete in the annual buffalo race.

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