Where the Birds Cry 2023
Where the Birds Cry 2023
Tam, gdzie placza ptaki (original title)
15m | Short, Drama | Release date: June 14, 2023 (Poland)
Storyline:
Fourteen-year-old Szymon lives in a seaside village. The boy is going through one of the most turbulent stages in his life – puberty. The boy’s monotonous life is interrupted by an unexpected visit from his childhood friend. An ordinary meeting on a cliff turns into his first summer romance.
Siberian Scout Adventure disk 2
Siberian Scout Adventure disk 2
27m | Adventure | 2000
Description:
Eight fresh-faced youngsters from the Prince Alexei Troop of the Siberian Forest Pathfinders experience the great outdoors in this Baikal film from Russia. These are city boys, some experiencing the wilds of nature for the first time, and it shows in the wonder in their eyes as they explore this beautiful new environment. But much more than that, this is a test of both physical strength and mental fortitude, unlike anything they have ever faced before. The boys are broken into 2-teams, red and blue, given a compass / map and must make their way through the forest to a camp at a distance lake.
Siberian Scout Adventure 2000
Siberian Scout Adventure 2000
1h 2m | Action | 2000
Description:
Eight fresh-faced youngsters from the Prince Alexei Troop of the Siberian Forest Pathfinders experience the great outdoors in this Baikal film from Russia. These are city boys, some experiencing the wilds of nature for the first time, and it shows in the wonder in their eyes as they explore this beautiful new environment. But much more than that, this is a test of both physical strength and mental fortitude, unlike anything they have ever faced before. The boys are broken into 2-teams, red and blue, given a compass / map and must make their way through the forest to a camp at a distance lake.
Crazy Love 1987
Crazy Love 1987
1h 30m | Drama | Release date: 1987 (Belgium)
Storyline:
Three ‘Bukowskian’ torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak – Later on, he’ll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking – but above all he learns that man is capable of anything – absolutely anything. – to get his fair share of love.
Carnal Sins 2023
Carnal Sins 2023
Almamula (original title)
1h 36m | Drama, Fantasy | Release date: August 24, 2023 (Argentina)
Storyline:
Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Nino lives with his family and he is in the midst of exploring his early awakening sexuality. At age 14, Nino is already a victim of homophobic attacks. To protect him, his parents decide to leave the city temporarily and the whole family moves to a farm near a rural village. The place is surrounded by the “monte”, a huge humid and dark forest where his father works. Nino feels guilty for what he is going through and for having turned his family’s life upside down. His sister Natalia, aged 16, away from her friends and in her teens, has no mercy on him. Estela, his mother, wants to put Nino “back on the right track” and organizes his Confirmation in the local church. In this rural and superstitious environment, Nino hears about the legend of a mysterious creature called the Almamula, which haunts the “monte” and takes with it anyone who has committed sexually reprehensible acts. The Priest’s sermons show Nino that his sexuality is not acceptable to the eyes of God. The pressure of the approaching Confirmation ceremony weighs on him as his fascination for the Almamula, who he thinks would accept his sins, grows. Little by little, Nino begins to pray to the Almamula, seeing it as a way of “salvation”, and goes in search of the creature, to be taken by it.
Gefangene Liebe 1994
Gefangene Liebe 1994
1h 32m | Drama | Release date: 1994 (Germany)
Storyline:
Anneliese is living together with her son Florian in a run-down farm. But her exaggerated demands drive him mad. Man and daughter work in the city. The 14-year-old son is supposed to fulfill the mother’s dreams and become a chemist. Still, the boy fits his wishes, but he secretly dreams of becoming a farmer. Then, the situation escalates.
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
1h 44m | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | Release date: March 15, 1972 (United States)
Storyline:
Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is “unstuck in time”, which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as a Chaplain’s assistant for his unit. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teen-aged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the planet Tralfamadore, along with his devoted dog Spot, and Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack – who was not averse to taking off her clothes to further her career – the Tralfamadorians who have put them on display. The more time he spends on Tralfamadore, the more he understands the meaning of what is happening to him.
October Boy 2018
October Boy 2018
Oktober Dreng (original title)
29m | Short, Drama | Release date: August 8, 2018 (United States)
Storyline:
14-year-old Thomas has just moved to Copenhagen with his mom. Thomas likes to draw, it’s a way for him to escape from the pressure around him. In school he meets Mads and Emma. Mads likes Thomas’ drawings, whereas Emma is romantically interested in Thomas and invites him home with her. Just before leaving, Thomas meets Emmas older brother, a young, emerging artist. The meeting changes something within him. Rumors start circulating about Emma and Thomas – and he doesn’t deny them. Thomas can’t understand his feelings, how to act in the new school or control the lies, he has created to be popular. “October Boy” is film about all the things that change us as people.
The End of the Track 1970
The End of the Track 1970
Pao dao zhong dian (original title)
1h 31m | Drama | Release date: 1970 (Taiwan)
Storyline:
Hsiao-Tung and Yung-shen are best friends who spend their time wandering the countryside, training for athletics, and hanging out at the dumpling stall operated by Yung-shen’s parents. When Yung-shen suffers an unexpected heart attack on the track field, it shakes his parents to the core – and sends Tung into a downhill spiral.
