B.O.Y. 2024

B.O.Y. 2024

B.O.Y. 2024

B.O.Y. 2024
Glasskår (original title)
1h 27m | Drama | Release date: April 16, 2025 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Sixteen-year-old Tobias reluctantly spends his summer with his grandparents in the countryside, abandoned once again by his elusive mother. His grandfather takes care of his dementia-sick wife while working full time as a glazier. Tobias encounters two local young men: Jonas, a male prostitute, and Aron, a local 25-year-old house painter. Instantly drawn to each other, Tobias and Aron navigate the complexities of their budding relationship. But Tobias, starved for love and affection, struggles to let down his guard, pushing Aron away whenever emotions run too deep. When tragedy strikes, Tobias finds himself sinking back into old habits of self-loathing and self-harm, seeking solace in the pain he inflicts upon himself. As dark thoughts threaten to unravel his sanity and alienate those closest to him, Tobias spirals further into his downward spiral, convinced he deserves every ounce of suffering. Feeling utterly abandoned, Tobias embarks on a harrowing journey of self-discovery and redemption, teetering on the edge of emotional collapse. Will he find the strength to break free from his self-destructive patterns and embrace the love he so desperately craves, or will he succumb to the darkness consuming him from within?

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Mamma Roma 1962

Mamma Roma 1962

Mamma Roma 1962

Mamma Roma 1962
1h 46m | Drama | Release date: September 22, 1962 (Italy)

Storyline:

With a fervent yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, determined former streetwalker Mamma Roma renounces her ignominious past to reunite with her loafing 16-year-old son Ettore. Free at last from her disgusting pimp and ex-lover Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall, but a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put an end to her zealous aspirations for a decent bourgeois existence. For his own sake, Ettore must be spared the violence of the adult world; nevertheless, can a lone single mother protect her only son from the same snares that wounded her youth?

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Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old (1993)

Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old (1993)

Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old (1993)

Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old (1993)
Hatachi no binetsu (original title)
1h 54m | Drama, Romance | 4 September 1993 (Japan)

Storyline:

The story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin, and her two female friends. Everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares he’s in love with Tatsuro.

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Moneyboys 2021

Moneyboys 2021

Moneyboys 2021

Moneyboys 2021
1h 58m | Drama | 8 October 2021 (South Korea)

Storyline:

Fei works illegally as a hustler in order to support his family, yet when he realizes they are willing to accept his money but not his way of life, there is a major breakdown in their relations. Through his relationship to the headstrong Long, Fei seems able to find a new lease on life, but then he encounters Xiaolai, the love of his youth, who confronts him with the guilt of his repressed past.

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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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Star Maps 1997

Star Maps 1997

Star Maps 1997

Star Maps 1997
1h 26m | Comedy, Drama | 23 July 1997 (USA)

Storyline:

After five years of living in Mexico, Carlos, an 18-year-old youth returns to Los Angeles. He wants to be an actor. But his father, Pepe, a pimp wants him to work in the family business, that is, male prostitution. Carlos decides that he will be one of his father’s boys until he can get his foot in the door in Hollywood. Finally one of his clients, Jennifer a rich soap star, offers him a bit part in her show. Pepe tells Carlos that she is just using him and demands that he most not see the woman any longer. Carlos defies his father and when his big day comes he finds out the harsh realities of life are even harsher than he imagined.

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Coalesce 2020

Coalesce 2020

Coalesce 2020

Coalesce 2020
Les affluents (original title)
1h 23min | Drama | 26 September 2020 (France)

Storyline:

In Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, there are three young men. Songsa came to Phnom Penh to help sell clothes. Thy who wants a motorcycle, but doesn’t have money, sets foot in an entertainment establishment. Phearum drives a taxi, but there is no way to pay off his debt. What is the fate that lies before those who have to pursue money and dreams in a difficult reality? The film is based on a rapidly changing Cambodian society, with the story of three characters intersecting. This is the debut film of the new French director Jesse Miceli, who was invited to the ACID of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film gives a realistic view of young people in contemporary Cambodia.

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