Sweet Journey 2011
Yun xia de ri zi (original title)
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: March 8, 2011 (China)
Storyline:
Guizhou province, southern China, spring 1980. Schoolboys Zhao Qiangsheng (Ma Guoxing) and Fulai (Wang Shibin), who’ve spent their whole life in a remote village, hear from a PLA soldier about a thing called a “city”, full of people, buildings and cars, three mountains away. Full of curiosity, and with the orphaned Fulai fed up with being passed around the community, the two set off to reach it when their school is closed for five days…
The Rocket 2013
1h 40m | Drama | Release date: August 29, 2013 (Australia)
Storyline:
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he’s not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
Gewalten 2022
2h 28m | Drama | Release date: May 11, 2023 (Germany)
Storyline:
Thirteen-year-old Daniel lives with his older brother and terminally ill father in a village plagued by rural exodus. There, the young people live their lives between rare bus stops, xenophobia, unemployment, illegal dog fights and chemical intoxicants, among other things. Daniel stands between childhood and adolescence, and in the face of the indifference and stagnation of his surroundings, he becomes the victim of inhuman conditions that force him into a painful loneliness.
Vracenky 1991
1h 34m | Drama | Release date: November 1, 1991 (Czechoslovakia)
Storyline:
In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes her mind when a show trial is held. She speaks about her dissatisfaction with the government and is immediately arrested. Honza is given to another family.
Louis, enfant roi 1993
2h 40m | Biography, Drama, History | Release date: April 21, 1993 (France)
Storyline:
The title of this major French costume drama means “Louis, child-king”, and indeed it’s a fascinating fresco about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the Sun-king at Versailles. It was a dark and violent period, when the Louvre (meaning ‘wolves hunt castle’, hunting was a major aristocratic pastime), then still the somewhat gloomy royal palace, was the battle field of palace intrigues while the regency was held by queen-mother Anne of Austria but the actual head of the royal government was the aging cardinal Giulio Mazirini (‘Mazarin’), the less-known Italian successor of Richelieu, who also introduced to the court and the kingdom a host of his countrymen from whom Louis would learn the passion for Italian culture, especially music which would flourish under the direction of Lully (but that later story is another movie, “Le Roi danse”). The elaborate script sketches the story of French power politics, too complicate and devious to summarize in any detail, but mainly from the viewpoint of the immature king under maternal guardianship, who probably didn’t comprehend half of the grave troubles focusing on the strife between the official Catholic church and those claiming freedom of religion, especially for the Huguenots, but in reality mainly driven by personal and family ambitions and the grip of nobles on the kingdom at the expense of the royal power, and climaxing in a full rebellion, known as the Fronde, which forces the royal family to flee for their lives, an experience that may have decided Louis to dedicate his reign to preventing a repeat by establishing absolutism as he did. Some narration is done by Louis’s younger brother Philip, the duke of Anjou, who seems smarter but as the spare heir is condemned to life in a golden cage, overshadowed by Louis while any ‘disrespect’ for his crowned sibling is punishable on the spot by strap lashes administered on his bare behind by a servant.
Promiscuidade, os Pivetes de Kátia 1984
1h 30m | Drama | Release date: 1984 (Brazil)
Storyline:
Mauro, a young railway engineer and happily married to beautiful Kátia, lives in complete harmony with his father-in-law, Sergio, Kátia’s brother, Beto, Adriana, Paulo’s wife and Kika, Beto’s girlfriend. On one of the family’s trips to the railway terminal, Mauro suffers a violent fall and falls into a coma. Hurriedly taken to the hospital, however, he recovered due to the severity of the internal injury, he becomes definitely impotent. Mauro, uncomfortable with the new situation, is drunk all the time, becoming a dead weight for the family and especially for his young wife. The family spends every weekend in a small farm on the banks of a dam and there, they give vent to all sorts of libidinizations. The maid Nora now has sex with Sergio, now the alleged head of the family. Adriana besides having relations with her father-in-law, she also has Nora and Beto, who in turn also fucks Adriana, her sister-in-law. Claudinha, a young surveyor comes to know Marcos and they start a romance and have sex. Kátia, who had already tried everything, finds a new way in a boat dock. Boys fishing every day. Win their friendship and start having sex with everyone. Spreading the fact, the kids line up to have sex with her. The family can no longer stand the situation, and Mauro is always half drunk and has fun with everything.
An erotically-charged drama by the late Park Chul-soo, intertwining stories of three characters whose joy, passion and despair played out on the same bed are tangled like a puzzle.
Birds Without A Nest 1996
Ptitsy bez gnyozd (original title)
1h 29m | Biography, Drama | Release date: 1996 (Belarus)
Storyline:
A film based on Belarusian poet Larisa Geniyush’s memoir. Despite living through the difficult times and being in emigration, she fought for freedom in her homeland and expressed devotion to the nation and it’s language.
