Budapest, Closed City 2021
Budapest, Closed City 2021
Budapest, zárt város (original title)
13m | Short | Release date: May 29, 2021 (Hungary)
Storyline:
Hungarian teenager Péter is taking his British friend, Adam on a personal but political tour around his hometown. The fast-paced and emotional day gets the two boys closer together in an exotic underground club.
Monster 2023
Monster 2023
Kaibutsu (original title)
2h 7m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: June 02, 2023 (Japan)
Storyline:
A suburban town with a large lake. A single mother who loves her son, a school teacher who cares about her students, and innocent children lead a peaceful life. One day, a fight breaks out at school. It looked like a common fight between children, but their claims differed, and it gradually developed into a big deal involving society and the media. Then one stormy morning, the children suddenly disappear.
Un Bon Garçon 2023
Un Bon Garçon 2023
19m | Short, Drama | Release date: May 6, 2023 (Belgium)
Storyline:
The 16-year-old Maxime is a very good swimmer with a bright future ahead. Between workouts and nights out with friends, he’s just an ordinary teenager. But when the police burst into a training session one day and want to question his coach, his well-ordered life begins to crumble and his good boy image takes a dangerous blow.
The Mighty Celt 2005
The Mighty Celt 2005
1h 22m | Drama | Release date: August 26, 2005 (United Kingdom)
Storyline:
Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal ownership of Donal’s favorite greyhound, The Mighty Celt, if the animal wins three races in a row. Meanwhile, Donal’s mother, Kate, must adjust her life when O, a man from her past, returns. The political climate of Ireland serves as the backdrop of this story.
Bad Boys 1983
Bad Boys 1983
2h 3m | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Release date: March 25, 1983 (United States)
Storyline:
Mick O’Brien, a sixteen-year-old juvenile delinquent preying on Chicago’s unsuspecting people, is arrested and taken to Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility for negligent homicide. Unfortunately, his latest victim was an innocent eight-year-old boy. As a result, hell-bent on avenging his death, the ruthless teenage drug dealer, Paco Moreno, decides to get even. But, inevitably, Paco’s arrest, and his detention in Mike’s prison, will lead to a dangerously volatile co-existence, and all bets are off on their imminent confrontation. Now, the two rivals have no other choice but to lock horns and take the law into their own hands. Is there a future for bad boys, Mick and Paco?
Io capitano 2023
Io capitano 2023
2h 1m | Drama | Release date: January 3, 2024 (France)
Storyline:
A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.
Sweet Journey 2011
Sweet Journey 2011
Yun xia de ri zi (original title)
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: March 8, 2011 (China)
Storyline:
Guizhou province, southern China, spring 1980. Schoolboys Zhao Qiangsheng (Ma Guoxing) and Fulai (Wang Shibin), who’ve spent their whole life in a remote village, hear from a PLA soldier about a thing called a “city”, full of people, buildings and cars, three mountains away. Full of curiosity, and with the orphaned Fulai fed up with being passed around the community, the two set off to reach it when their school is closed for five days…
The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995
The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995
Hikayatul jawahiri thalath (original title)
1h 52m | Drama, Romance, War | Release date: December 6, 1995 (France)
Storyline:
A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef’s family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father’s in prison and his heavily-armed brother’s on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef’s schoolmate from a well-off Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he’s waited so long for.
