Squatterpunk 2007

Squatterpunk 2007

Squatterpunk 2007
Iskwaterpangk (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 19min | Documentary | 8 June 2010 (USA)

Plot:

Philippine underground filmmaker Khavn directed this purposefully rough and tumble portrait of life along the margins in Manila. Hapon is an eight year old boy living in a shantytown in the city’s poorest neighborhood. Despite the grinding poverty around him, Hapon seems to enjoy his life as he and his friends run free through the tumble down shacks they call home and play in the garbage-strewn streets. Hapon and his pals seem largely unconcerned with their future (or even entirely aware if they’ll ever have one) as they live for the moment in a place largely governed by misery. Featuring a pounding score by Philippine punk band the Broacks, Squatterpunk was screened in competition at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival.

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Fortune and Men’s Eyes 1971

Fortune and Men's Eyes 1971

Fortune and Men’s Eyes 1971
R | 1h 42min | Drama | 15 June 1971 (USA)

Storyline:

The young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months; Cathy, his girlfriend, watches as he disappears behind the bars and barbed wire. He’s assigned a cell with Queenie, a balls-out drag queen, Rocky, a quiet but cocky con, and Mona, a young gay man who ministers to Rocky. Smitty watches in horror as gangs of inmates brutalize prisoners who lack protection. Those who complain risk beatings or murder at the hands of unsympathetic guards: all cries are bootless. Mona offers poetry – Shakespeare’s sonnet XXIX; Queenie and Rocky offer Smitty advice, and Rocky offers protection for a price. Smitty’s choices and their consequences are the film’s main subjects.

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Une si petite semaine 2002

Une si petite semaine 2002

Une si petite semaine 2002
42min | Drama, Short | 2002 (France)

Storyline:

In a small provincial town, Franck learns one day that his mother is gone, framed by gendarmes. Magré his brother, despite the friend of his mother, the boy of thirteen then rocking in a world without landmarks where the emptiness left by his absent mother leads him, for a week, to commit the irreparable.

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Lemonade 2018

Lemonade 2018

Lemonade 2018
1h 28min | Drama | 4 October 2018 (Germany)

Storyline:

Mara, a young Romanian woman, has just moved to the US with Dragos, her 9-year-old son, marrying Daniel, an American she has met only a few months ago. The film follows her through a series of revealing encounters during one day, from her problems of babysitting, her unplanned and uncomfortable meeting with a U.S. immigration official, to dealing with the police about her son she had to leave in a motel room and the bank issue for a loan with her husband.

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The Adopted Son 1998

The Adopted Son 1998

The Adopted Son 1998

The Adopted Son 1998
Beshkempir (original title)
1h 21min | Drama | 10 February 1999 (France)

Storyline:

n a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. He plays with friends, horsing around, sniggering about sex, going to an outdoor movie. He works, fishing and making bricks of mud. And, he’s starting to notice girls. He and his best friend fight, and he learns to his consternation that he’s a foundling. A death in the family pushes Beshkempir even faster toward adult roles: he must brush tears from his eyes, lead a funeral procession, and reconcile with his friend. Then, he borrows a bicycle and calls on Aynura: courtship begins.

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Pitching Tents 2017

Pitching Tents 2017

Pitching Tents 2017
1h 30min | Comedy | 6 June 2017 (USA)

Storyline:

A mysterious goddess, a vulgar guidance counselor and a no-nonsense father all want to help Danny figure out his future while he sneaks off to the woods with his buddies for a weekend of girls, beer and THE party of 1984.

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