Totally True Love 2011
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.
Breathing 2011
Breathing 2011
Atmen (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama | 31 August 2012 (USA)
Storyline:
Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.
No End 1985
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
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
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
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.
Bobbycrush 2003
Bobbycrush 2003
10min | Short | 9 November 2003 (USA)
Storyline:
Bobby Stone is 13 and in love. Problem is that he’s in love with his best friend Dylan and Dylan doesn’t feel the same way.
Vegas 2009
Vegas 2009
Not Rated | 1h 50min | Drama | 25 September 2009 (Norway)
Storyline:
You don’t choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje – three teenagers with nowhere to go. After witnessing his mother being beaten up, Thomas is sent to a young people’s refuge. No one will tell him where his brother is, and Thomas vows to find him. At the refuge, he meets Marianne, who is always screwing up, and Terje, who seems like he’s from another planet altogether. The three of them find they share a common dream, and together they embark on a journey of love, hate and trust.No one ends up where they planned, but everyone finds a home.
Tomboy 2011
Tomboy 2011
Not Rated | 1h 22min | Drama | 11 February 2011 (Germany)
Storyline:
A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old born Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mickäel to the neighborhood children. It is heavily implied that Mickäel is a closeted transgender boy. This film follows his experiences with his newfound friends, his potential love interest, Lisa, his younger sister and his parents. It focuses in on the significance of gender identity in social interaction from an early age, the difficulties of being transgender and young, and how Mickäel navigates these in the background of childhood play and love.
