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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Home Team 2022

Home Team 2022

Home Team 2022

Home Team 2022
1h 35m | Comedy, Sport | 28 January 2022 (USA)

Storyline:

Follows Payton who, two years after a Super Bowl win when he is suspended, goes back to his hometown and finds himself reconnecting with his 12-year-old son by coaching his Pop Warner football team. Payton was suspended in 2012 for his role in the team’s Bountygate scandal where bounties were allegedly being paid to players who would try to injure players from the opposing team.

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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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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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Last Summer 1969

Last Summer 1969

Last Summer 1969

Last Summer 1969
1h 35m | Drama | 10 June 1969 (USA)

Storyline:

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people–a girl and two guys–become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio’s newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

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