No Dogs Allowed 2024

No Dogs Allowed 2024

No Dogs Allowed 2024

No Dogs Allowed 2024
1h 46m | Drama | Release date: November 17, 2024 (Estonia)

Storyline:

Fifteen-year-old Gabo seems like a regular teenager who goes to school, plays video games with his best friend, and does other things a normal teenager would do – except he’s not. He has tendencies he knows to be wrong, but cannot control. He befriends Dave, a much older man with his fantasies. Lines soon start to blur between a trusting friendship and being groomed. Once Dave is arrested on suspicion of statutory rape, Gabo must suddenly decide whether to testify against his mentor with the risk of exposing his secret.

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The Boy with Pink Trousers 2024

The Boy with Pink Trousers 2024

The Boy with Pink Trousers 2024

 

The Boy with Pink Trousers 2024
Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa (original title)
1h 54m | Drama | Release date: October 10, 2024 (Italy)

Storyline:

On November 20, 2012, Andrea Spezzacatena, a boy who had just turned 15, took his own life. It was the first case in Italy of bullying and cyberbullying that led to the suicide of a minor. The triggering incident was his choice to wear a pair of red trousers, a gift from his mother, which turned pink due to a washing mishap. This movie is based on his story.

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Ce qui appartient à César 2024

Ce qui appartient à César 2024

Ce qui appartient à César 2024

Ce qui appartient à César 2024
18m | Short | Release date: June 15, 2024 (Germany)

Storyline:

César is eleven years old when his big sister Lou is the victim of sexual assault. In the locker rooms of his fencing classes, puberty hits with full force. Caesar would like to take part in all the battles but does not have the weapons.

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L’ultima settimana di settembre 2024

L'ultima settimana di settembre 2024

L’ultima settimana di settembre 2024

L’ultima settimana di settembre 2024
1h 30m | Drama | Release date: September 12, 2024 (Italy)

Storyline:

Pietro Rinaldi, an elderly writer, widower and tired of life, plans to commit suicide on his birthday. After the sudden and tragic death of his daughter and son-in-law, Pietro will have to look after his teenage nephew Mattia.

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Kix 2024

Kix 2024

Kix 2024

Kix 2024
1h 34m | Documentary | Release date: November 21, 2024 (Hungary)

Storyline:

This urban odyssey begins with a chance meeting on the streets of Budapest, when the two filmmakers run into Sanyi, a charismatic, unruly 8-year-old who constantly tests boundaries and oscillates between childlike innocence and a sober outlook that belies his age. Over the course of over a decade, the camera captures Sanyi’s growing pains in a cramped, dilapidated apartment with barely functioning parents and a baby sister. Charted by a fiery temperament and an inexplicable attraction to danger, the course of Sanyi’s life seems predetermined as he hurtles toward a dark future. Filmed in the spirit of Cinema Verité, this gripping and gritty doc will have you on the edge of your seat from Sanyi’s first breakneck-speed skateboard ride to his inevitable plummet down the rough roads of adulthood.

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Dìdi 2024

Dìdi 2024

Dìdi 2024

Dìdi 2024
1h 33m | Comedy, Drama | Release date: August 16, 2024 (United States)

Storyline:

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

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Waking Up in Vegas 2023

Waking Up in Vegas 2023

Waking Up in Vegas 2023

Waking Up in Vegas 2023
15m | Short | Release date: October 26, 2023 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

One late summer afternoon, the two friends play football and go swimming in the nearby stream. As always, Aaron takes off his clothes and jumps into the stream, whilst Yael suddenly struggles to be naked. When Aaron also mentions that he finds Yael beautiful, the mood changes. Yael cannot handle the emotional openness of his best friend and rejects him. The tension continues through the rest of the afternoon and finally escalates into an argument. Back home, Yael walks past Silas’s room and sees him crying in front of the mirror. Moved by his brother’s emotional behaviour, Yael realises that he made a mistake rejecting Aaron and drives to his house to apologize. The two boys reconcile and manage to create a new intimacy that gives Yael the opportunity to get one step closer to himself.

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Miss Entebbe 2003

Miss Entebbe 2003

Miss Entebbe 2003

Miss Entebbe 2003
1h 20m | Drama | Release date: July 31, 2003 (Israel)

Storyline:

Jerusalem 1976, a coming of age story about a confused girl, set against the Entebbe airplane hijacking.13- year-old Noa, is convinced she can free her friend’s mom by kidnapping an Arab boy. Instead, she finds herself involved in a dangerous adventure that quickly develops a life of its own, and becomes deadly serious. Noa and her neighbor friends try to follow the adults patterns of behavior but, while entering the turmoil of political conflict and hatred, they discover that the solution is not to be found in the violent adult arena, but rather within their own hearts.

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