Coming Clean 2020
1h 11m | Drama | 9 April 2020 (UK)
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From the heart of the Amazon comes this exclusive LGBTQ+ compilation from emerging Latin American directors from Brazil and Peru. These thought-provoking shorts prove that universal social themes have no borders.
River’s Edge 1986
1h 39m | Crime, Drama | 8 May 1987 (USA)
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A group of high school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Reactions vary, as Layne is intent on protecting Samson and smuggling him out of the state, while others think it’s best to go to the police. Matt’s tough little brother also finds out about the body and no one knows quite how the police will learn about the murder or who will be blamed for it.
Money worries and other worries are forgotten on the benches. In addition to cleansing, pain and illness have also been treated in the Finnish sauna, as have births and deaths. The stove is the altar of the holy fire of the Finns.
On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.
L’école est finie 1979
1h 37m | Comedy, Drama | 10 October 1979 (France)
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Julien is fifteen years old and divides his time between school, friends, and a sculpture workshop, that of Erick, which represents a place of escape for the young man. Natalie is sixteen years old. She prepares the BEPC as a free candidate and follows, from time to time.
Two friends meet after sixteen years, but neither one is who he once was in the past. Both have partners, but they are very different. Nacho and Marta are a perfect bourgeois married couple with good jobs, but they are unhappy because they are unable to get pregnant. The other couple, Denis and Carmen, are freer and more liberal; they live hand to mouth and are trying to get money to open a restaurant. When Denis offers to be their surrogate parent for the money they need to open the restaurant, the two couples will have to face their shortcomings and seek the happiness they have not yet found, even if it means breaking their own rules – even when the pregnancy is far along.
Fiorile 1993
1h 58m | Drama | 26 March 1993 (Italy)
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While travelling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon’s Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in love with French soldier Jean – but while Jean was distracted, Elisabetta’s brother Corrado stole some gold that Jean was guarding, and set the curse in train. The Benedettis become wealthy, corrupt and hated by their former friends, who rename them the Maledettis – the cursed. The childrens’ grandfather Massimo is the last man to be directly affected by the curse – but will he pass it onto them?