Gerontophilia 2013
Gerontophilia 2013
Unrated | 1h 22min | Comedy, Romance | 4 July 2014 (Canada)
Storyline:
An eighteen-year-old boy gets a summer job in a nursing home and develops a deep emotional attachment to an old man. Discovering that the old man, along with the other patients, is being over-medicated to make him easier to manage, the boy weans the old man off his meds and helps him escape, resulting in a road trip across the country.
Out Stealing Horses 2019
Out Stealing Horses 2019
Ut og stjæle hester (original title)
12 | 2h 3min | Drama, Mystery | 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
November 1999: 67-year-old Trond (Stellan Skarsgård), lives in self-imposed isolation and looks forward to welcoming in the new millennium alone. As winter arrives he meets one of his few neighbors, Lars (Bjørn Floberg), and realizes he knew him back in the summer of 1948. 1948 – the year Trond turned 15. The summer Trond grew up. OUT STEALING HORSES is based on the bestselling novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson, which received several important international awards and was included in The New York Times ’10 Best Books of 2007 (Fiction)’. Petterson’s novels have been translated into more than 50 languages.
Farewell My Concubine 1993
Farewell My Concubine 1993
Ba wang bie ji (original title)
R | 2h 51min | Drama, Music, Romance | 15 October 1993 (USA)
Storyline:
“Farewell, My Concubine” is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame.
Autumn Has Already Started 1960
Autumn Has Already Started 1960
Aki tachinu (original title)
1h 19min | Drama | 1 October 1960 (Japan)
Storyline:
Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle’s family – wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer – and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bullied/ fights with local boys, goes to the baths, plays basketball, is befriended by his male cousin and becomes friendly with grade 4 girl who’s the daughter of the innkeeper, who employs his mum and is the longterm mistress of a businessman from another town, who’s the girl’s father and who brings her half sister and brother to meet her but they’re mean to her. Meanwhile the boy’s mother gets friendly with one of the inn’s clients and chucks her job for a trip or something more permanent with him. The young girl takes him shopping, and wants the boy to live with her and her mother, but mother and father refuse so the two kids go to a seaside where he sprains his ankle and they’re late back even though the police get them and they’re in trouble. The boy loses his beetle and tries to get another for the girl for a school project but when he does, she’s moved house with her mother at the urging of her father. Clear? It’s better in the film.
Picco 2010
Picco 2010
1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Horror | 3 February 2011 (Germany)
Storyline:
Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is dominated by violence and latent aggression. Oppression and beatings are a daily occurence. It is hard for Kevin to establish himself. Especially Marc and Andy are after him. He’s afraid of not sticking it out. Only Tommy gives him an amicable advice: In this system, you’re either a victim or a culprit. If he doesn’t want to be a loser anymore, he has to start fighting. A piece of advice that will trigger most dire consequences…
Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987
Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987
1h 35min | War | 12 February 1987 (East Germany)
Storyline:
Follows the 15-year-old, Heinz Stilke, a member of the Hitler Youth. Heinz is proud of his father, who died bravely for his fatherland, but suddenly learns that he himself is half Jewish. Heinz leaves his gymnasium and is forced to flee his classmates lest his secret be revealed.
Pasolini 2014
Pasolini 2014
18 | 1h 24min | Biography, Drama | 10 May 2019 (USA)
Storyline:
A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
Follow You Follow Me 1979
Follow You Follow Me 1979
35min | Drama, Short | October 1979 (USA)
Storyline:
The film explores the development in the friendship of two teenage boys. Joseph who is introspective and shy and Peter, more confident and whose father is an employee at the factory owned by Joseph’s father. A dispute at the factory affects the relationship and reveals their feelings.
The German Lesson 2019
The German Lesson 2019
Deutschstunde (original title)
2h 10min | Drama | 3 October 2019 (Germany)
Storyline:
Siggi Jepsen is in Germany after the war in an institution for difficult to educate young people. He is to write an essay on the subject “The pleasures of duty”, but has no idea. Only when he is locked in a cell the next day, the memories of his childhood during the Second World War break out of him: His father Jens Ole Jepsen, a police officer, was then commissioned to bring the friendly expressionist painter Ludwig Nansen a professional ban , At Nansen’s surveillance, Siggi was supposed to help him at the time, but eventually he rebelled against his father, sided with the recalcitrant Nansen and hid some of the forbidden pictures, eventually leading to his stay in the asylum.
