Gisberta 2009
23min | Short, Drama | 20 November 2009 (Germany)
Again and again Elisha finds himself confronted by Alex, Timo, Sascha, and Mika – all 14-year-olds living in the boys’ orphanage with him. Their worlds ought to be similar and yet they are completely different. While Elisha builds tiny obstacle courses for ants in the woods, the other boys spend their days watching porn, absorbed in their emerging sexual fantasies.
Quero 2007
Querô (original title)
1h 28min | Drama | 14 September 2007 (Brazil)
Storyline:
Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. His mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. He also doesn’t know who his father is. Believing he rules his own destiny, he refuses to compromise with anyone else, the corrupt policemen always chasing him, the oppressive discipline in the juvenile institution Febem, or the drug dealers who try to lure him. But this independence has a price
Wenn einer was versprochen hat 1976
Wenn einer was versprochen hat 1976
1h 13min | Family | TV Movie 26 December 1976
Storyline
The problems of a twelve year old boy, with the requirements of the parents and the school and their own interests coincide. The father of Jens had reported for use in the oil route “Druzhba” in the Soviet Union.. Before he and his family left, had to Jens to promise him the mother in the household to help. Jens keeps his promise, especially since his father in a segment of the line announces that he knows how proud he is of his young if his promise was. However, the consequence of which is that Jens has only little to the events of his classmates can participate in outside of class to take place. To do this for his friend Jens again, Mischa’s an idea: you would have to be the mother of Jens, who works as a traffic cop. So the road to be better regulated, which means that signs be changed! But the result is that Mischa and Jens-suddenly at the police station later. Obviously this was – though well meaning – not the right way to reach your goal. But recently proves Jens with his reaction to what happened was that on him to Leave.
love 100 degrees c 2010
LOVE, 100°C (original title)
22min | Short, Drama, Romance | 2010 (South Korea)
Storyline:
A hearing-impaired boy, Min-so is gay, and he likes his classmate, Ji-seok. One day, Min-so impulsively has sex with a young man who works in a public bath, an experience that lends him new confidence, but at a heavy price.
At – The Horse 1982
1h 56min | Drama | 1982 (Switzerland)
Review:
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Although Ali Ozgenturk’s film is called “The Horse”, we actually see very little of said animal. In the film we follow a father named Hüseyin and his son Ferhat as they move from their poverty stricken town in the Turkish countryside to Istanbul. Hüseyin is desperate to find enough money so he can send his son to school, and Ferhat hopes the money can be used to buy a horse. In Istanbul, Hüseyin buys a vegetable cart and the two attempt to sell vegetables on the street. Because Hüseyin doesn’t have a licence to sell vegetables, the two are constantly on the look out for cops, and eventually Hüseyin has a run in with the law and loses his cart, although he himself escapes. Hüseyin tries various other methods to get money but they all prove fruitless. Finally, he steals a cart and takes it to the market place. All he has to sell is a single flower, but before he call sell it he his attacked and accidentally killed by the carts owner. Ferhat is sent home.
Barnens O 1980
Barnens O 1980
Barnens Ö (original title)
1h 49min | Drama | 25 December 1980 (Sweden)
Storyline:
Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children’s Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.
Close to Leo 2002
Tout contre Léo (original title)
1h 28min | Drama, Romance | TV Movie 18 May 2002
Storyline:
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he’s HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11 year Marcel, the youngest, is too young to understand and the family agrees to keep the unsettling news from him. Marcel overhears enough to understand that something amiss with Leo and when the two travel to Paris together, Marcel confronts Leo with what he suspects.
Don’t Tell Papa 2004
1h 42min | Comedy, Drama | 3 September 2004 (South Korea)
Storyline:
Don’t Tell Papa tells the story of a third-rate DJ who finds his relationship with his young son rapidly deteriorating. Director Lee Sang Hun offers you a hilariously touching tale about an intriguing love affair that will make you want to laugh and cry at the same time. After a one night stand high school boy Chul Soo and Ae Lang go their separate ways. However, approximately one year later, a basket with a baby is delivered to Chul’s class room. As Ae has left Korea to commence studies in the US, Chul has no choice but to look for a part time job in order to raise the temporarily motherless child.
