Menino da Calca Branca 1962
Menino da Calca Branca 1962
21min | Short | 1962 (Brazil)
Storyline:
When a young boy from a shanty town near Rio de Janeiro gets a coveted pair of white trousers for Christmas his joy knows no bounds. Not getting them dirty, however, presents certain difficulties for a lively slum kid.
Puppylove 2013
Puppylove 2013
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Drama, Romance | 30 April 2021 (Germany)
Storyline:
At 14, Diane is an enigmatic teenager and a loner. She is busy bringing up her little brother, Marc, and has an intense relationship with her father, Christian. The appearance of Julia, a young charismatic and emancipated English girl, in her neighbourhood turns Diane’s everyday life upside down. Diane, who wants to break the bounds of childhood at any price, goes through the most dramatic experiences of her life in the space of six months. The closer she is to Julia, the more she turns her back on morality, paying no attention to the consequences or the limits of her desires.
We Can’t Change the World. But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia. (2011)
We Can’t Change the World. But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia. (2011)
Bokutachi wa sekai o kaeru koto ga dekinai. But, we wanna build a school in Cambodia. (original title)
2h 6min | Drama | 23 September 2011 (Japan)
Storyline:
A young Japanese man works to raise money and then build an elementary school in Cambodia.
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael 2005
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael 2005
1h 36min | Crime, Drama | 20 October 2006 (UK)
Storyline:
An introverted, socially awkward, middle-class youth, Robert Carmichael, is a talented cello player but is bored by his existence in the coastal town of Newhaven. He becomes associated with several other unsavory teenagers and is soon tempted into the use of hard drugs like cocaine and ecstasy. Robert initially does not take part in the rape of a teenage girl in a squalid flat with the gang, but later joins in another violent attack on a middle-aged couple, with the woman involved being viciously raped.
County Lines 2019
County Lines 2019
1h 30min | Drama | 4 December 2020 (UK)
Storyline:
The term ‘county lines’ describes the practice of using children to traffic drugs from cities to coastal towns and rural areas, an under-reported fact of modern British life. Inspired by the stories he heard while mentoring kids at an East London pupil referral unit, writer-director Henry Blake’s powerful feature debut boasts a compelling central performance by Conrad Khan as 14-year-old Tyler, whose mum Toni (Ashley Madekwe) is struggling to provide for him and his sister. Excluded from school, Tyler becomes a train-bound narcotics courier for local criminal Simon, played with a calm menace by Harris Dickinson. County Lines (2019) depicts the ensuing cycle of debt, deceit and violent exploitation with a quiet stylistic confidence that’s all the more haunting for being so rigorously unsentimental.
Iskam Amerika 1991
Iskam Amerika 1991
1h 25min | Drama | 12 December 1991 (Bulgaria)
Storyline:
A film director goes back to the place where he was born to shoot a film about his father – a resistance hero. The childhood memories prove painful, the meetings with the old friends, who have changed beyond recognition, are a distressing experience. After the director sees how the time has been ruined their lives, he realizes he is never going to make the film about his father…
Grimm Love 2006
Grimm Love 2006
Rohtenburg (original title)
R | 1h 27min | Crime, Drama, Horror | 18 June 2009 (Germany)
Storyline:
In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen’s and the thousands of people like him.
Naked Animals 2020
Naked Animals 2020
Nackte Tiere (original title)
1h 23min | Drama | 17 September 2020 (Germany)
Storyline:
Five young people in provincial Germany. They run into each other and away from each other. They kiss and they fight. It’s their last winter together before they leave school, after that it’s stay or go. A feature film debut of enormous intensity.
