Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories 2015

Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories 2015

Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories 2015

Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories 2015
Cha và con và… (original title)
1h 42min | Crime, Drama | 20 April 2016 (France)

Storyline:

It is the late nineties, Vietnam is in economic turmoil and overpopulation has sparked political concern. Vu, a photography student, arrives in the sprawling metropolis of Saigon and moves into a slum neighborhood where he meets a mix of eccentric characters including Thang, a charismatic young man, who convinces Vu to get a vasectomy in order receive money from the government.

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Nevrland 2019

Nevrland 2019

Nevrland 2019

Nevrland 2019
1h 28min | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 13 September 2019 (Austria)

Storyline:

17-year-old Jakob wants nothing more than to feel alive. Uncontrollable anxiety attacks prevent him from doing so and force him to escape into virtual worlds. One night, he meets 26-year-old Kristjan in a cam chat. Their encounter marks the beginning of a transpersonal journey to the wounds of their souls.

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Stars Above Us 2019

Stars Above Us 2019

Stars Above Us 2019

Stars Above Us 2019
Die Sterne über uns (original title)
1h 41min | Drama | 14 November 2019 (Germany)

Storyline:

The story of a single mother struggling to regain control of her life. While living rough in a forest she fights to find a place in the world for her and her son, but her earnest attempts are continually thwarted.

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Une nuit, a travers champs 2019

Une nuit, a travers champs 2019

Une nuit, a travers champs 2019

Une nuit, a travers champs 2019
56min | Drama, Short | 2019

Storyline:

In a working class town near the border, Anthony and Dylan, two inseparable fourteen-year-olds, decide to set out by foot for a Retro House evening at a nightclub. While one wants to meet up with Océane, a girl he’s in love with, the other wants to escape his dealer brother, from whom he’s stolen money and some of his drug supply.

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Neighbour No. 13 (2005)

Neighbour No. 13 (2005)

Neighbour No. 13 (2005)

Neighbour No. 13 (2005)
Rinjin 13-gô (original title)
R | 1h 55min | Horror, Thriller | 8 March 2006 (USA)

Storyline:

Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, rejection and fear without facing Akai, he develops a psychopathic dual personality with a violent alter-ego. While living in the apartment 13 of a tenement building, he becomes unable to control his violent dark personality, who plots an evil revenge against his upper floor neighbor Akai and his family.

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I Love You Rosa 1972

I Love You Rosa 1972

I Love You Rosa 1972

I Love You Rosa 1972
Ani Ohev Otach Rosa (original title)
1h 17min | Drama | 12 February 1972 (Israel)

Storyline:

The love of Nissim for his widowed sister-in-law, Rosa, in the Old City of Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Under a (very old) Jewish religious law, Nissim has the duty to marry his childless sister-in-law on the death of his brother.

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The Browning Version 1994

The Browning Version 1994

The Browning Version 1994

The Browning Version 1994
R | 1h 37min | Drama | 12 October 1994 (USA)

Storyline:

Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British public school. After nearly twenty years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His wife Laura (Greta Scacchi) is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respect.

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