The Wretched 2019
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Horror | 1 May 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent’s imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door.
Anche Libero Va Bene 2006
1h 48min | Drama | 3 May 2006 (Italy)
Storyline:
Tommi (11) and his slightly older sister Viola live in the city with their father. They cope with being a single parent family until their mother shows up, having disappeared without trace – not for the first time, we soon learn. These are the four protagonists in a bittersweet portrait of their ongoing struggle with love, friendship, puberty and life in general.
Totally True Love 2011
Jørgen + Anne = sant (original title)
1h 23min | Family, Mystery | 25 February 2011 (Norway)
Storyline:
A 10-year-old Norwegian girl falls in love for the first time. Her friends confront their own feelings as they witness her no-holds-barred battle with a rival student for the affections of a boy who moves into town.
No End 1985
Bez konca (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 47min | Drama, Romance | 17 June 1985 (Poland)
Storyline:
It’s 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself in her work, in her relationship with her son, in sex, and in hypnosis. In a subplot, Ulla refers the wife of one of her husband’s clients – Darek, a jailed Solidarity strike organizer – to Labrador, a world-weary, aging attorney, who works to free Darek by various political manipulations and psychological ploys.
End of Love 2009
Oi do chun (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 18 July 2009 (USA)
Storyline:
Stuck in a Christian ‘rehabilitation’ camp, Ming recalls his double life, a whirlwind of sex and drugs as a rent boy, and a sedate, romantic life with the older and more conservative Yen. Secrets and lies haunt their relationship, as Ming’s mother confronts her son’s sexuality in a most extreme fashion and Yen tries to get Ming to give up hustling.
Hell, or Pool Cleaning 2011
O Inferno (original title)
20min | Short, Drama, Thriller | May 2011 (Portugal)
Storyline:
You can think of swimming pools, shinny wet grass, maybe heat and sex. There is no subway, no train station. You take three buses if you don’t have a car. You can live well there. Probably nothing else comes to mind.
Little Bird 2014
Ptichka (original title)
1h 30min | Drama | 9 November 2014 (Germany)
Storyline:
When does your childhood go away? It goes away when instead of playing football with other kids you sit down and silently contemplate the river. When your thoughts don’t let you sleep, and a lightning bug beats in a pot like a heart. When poems come into your mind and you feel you really need to sing. It goes away when you suddenly realize: this summer is going away and it is the last summer of your childhood.