The child I never was 2002
The child I never was 2002
Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen (2002)
1h 23min | Crime, Drama | 15 November 2002 (Germany)
Storyline:
Fictionalized account of Jürgen Bartsch, a German boy who became notorious in the 1960’s after his conviction for the serial killings and sexual molestation of a number of young German boys. Told partly as recreation and partly as taped confession.
Jet Boy 2001
Jet Boy 2001
1h 39min | Drama | 30 September 2001 (Canada)
Storyline:
A drug dealer finds an unlikely traveling companion in an runaway kid trying to dodge social services.
Maske Ku Vi 1977
Maske Ku Vi 1977
Måske ku’ vi (original title)
1h 38min | Drama | 16 February 1976 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Kim (Karl Wagner) is an attractive and well-liked 15-year-old Danish boy with a rather ordinary life. He likes to drink beer and party with his friends. School is a bore. His parents are divorced and his mother doesn’t make much money. She nags at him, frustrated that he wants to go out all the time, and that he doesn’t apply himself or take responsibility. Suddenly Kim finds himself taken hostage by bank robbers, along with Marianne (Marianne Berg), who’s also 15. They find themselves out in the country, hiding from the police, making love and meeting unusual people with unconventional points of view. What will happen to the young lovers’ new romance when the adventure is over and they have to return to their real lives?
Swinki 2009
1h 34min | Drama | 10 June 2010 (Germany)
Storyline:
Tomek is 14 and a good student. He’s interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, whereas across the river lies Germany with all its relative affluence. Tomek meets Marta at a disco and falls in love with her. He starts to think up ways of earning money in order to keep her interested. He approaches a pimp who seeks out local boys for his German clients. Tomek has no idea of the brutal fate which awaits him.
Amy George 2011
Amy George 2011
1h 35min | Drama | 3 April 2011 (USA)
Storyline:
Thirteen-year-old Jesse wants to be an artist, but believes that his mundane middle-class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on what it takes to be a “true-artist”, he sets out looking for risk, ecstasy, wildness and women. Amy George is a microbudget independent drama about the time in a boy’s life when he’s at his least likeable.
5 Time Champion 2011
5 Time Champion 2011
1h 32min | Drama | 2011 (USA)
Storyline:
A teenage boy, adrift amongst a sea of family indiscretions, discovers what it means to be a man.
Asfour Stah 1990
Asfour Stah 1990
1h 38min | Drama, Comedy | 26 September 1990 (France)
Storyline
A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds – the loving world of Muslim women and the vastly different, harsher world of men – while also dealing with his own budding sexuality.
L’amant de poche 1978
L’amant de poche 1978
1h 35min | Comedy | 15 February 1978 (France)
Storyline:
“The Pocket Lover” tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien’s own perceptions about the woman’s line of work, going out with wealthy guys.
La Luna 1979
2h 22min | Drama | 29 August 1979 (Italy)
Storyline:
Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the drug result in an incestuous relationship, but also in a possibility to reunite Joe–maybe even herself–with his real father, whose existence she has kept a secret from him.
