Aching Hearts 2009

Aching Hearts 2009

Aching Hearts 2009
Kærestesorger (original title)
1h 57min | Drama, Romance | 13 March 2009 (Denmark)

Storyline:

A bunch of 15-year-olds in Viborg make their first experiences with love, kissing and sexuality, coming together and drifting apart. The film follows the adolescents over a three-year-period, focusing on the relationship between Jonas and Agnete, which is made difficult by misconceptions, Agnete’s interest for philosophy and Jonas’s friend Toke, her father’s mental illness and Jonas’s own indecision regarding his feelings for her. The story ends when the protagonists finish school.

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White Frog 2012

White Frog 2012

White Frog 2012
1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 8 March 2012 (USA)

Storyline:

Younger brother Nick, who has Asperger’s syndrome, struggles to cope and understand after the death of his brother Chaz. His parents are in denial about several things, and are not communicating or dealing well with the loss, but then Chaz’s best friends decide to become mentors to Nick.

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13 ans 2008

13 ans 2008

13 ans 2008
11min | Short, Drama | 4 February 2008 (France)

Storyline:

Jonathan is in love with Julie, the most beautiful girl of his school… However, Julie doesn’t even know him. He becomes friend with Charles, Julie’s brother. One day, he sneaks in Julie’s room to steal her diary. Back home, he finds in the diary a drawn heart, with the quote “I love Jonathan”… Back to his new friend Charles’ home, he realizes that the diary belongs to Charles, himself…

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Poletje v skoljki 1985

Poletje v skoljki 1985

Poletje v skoljki 1985
1h 35min | Comedy, Family | 19 March 1985 (Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

Young Tomaz has many problems. Not only is he quite lonely, but he also has to leave his hometown and move to the city with his family because of his father’s new job. In these difficult times, during the middle of summer, his only help is his computer Vedi. Even the rivalry between local children gangs from Piran and Portoroz can not solve any problems, at least not until both gangs get a common enemy – motorcyclists who steal shells.

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Judas Kiss 2011

Judas Kiss 2011

Judas Kiss 2011
1h 34min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 1 April 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

Failed filmmaker Zachary Wells is convinced by his best friend and hotshot director Topher into replacing him as a judge in their film school’s annual festival. Zach’s one-night stand with a student backfires when that student walks into an interview the next morning calling himself Danny Reyes, the name Zach went by when he attended the school. And Danny’s film, “Judas Kiss,” is a finalist in the competition Zach is judging. Zach’s film, also “Judas Kiss,” won the festival years before. As Zach scrambles for answers, a mysterious, chain-smoking campus tour guide, counsels him: “Change the kid’s past, change your future.” But how? Zach comes to believe he can mend his life by disqualifying Danny from competition, putting him on a different path than Zach followed. But will Zach’s plan work?

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Solos 2007

Solos 2007

Solos 2007
1h 17min | Drama, Romance | 18 April 2007 (Singapore)

Storyline:

Inspired by true events, SOLOS explores relationships among three individuals who are struggling to open up their feelings towards each other. Filmmakers Kan Lume and Loo Zihan co-directed this pathos that dramatizes the selfishness of love and its tragic outcomes. Set in contemporary Singapore, SOLOS follows the endeavors of BOY, MAN and MOTHER. Having been in a relationship with MAN (Lim Yu Beng) for years, BOY (Loo Zihan) eventually grows up and wishes to quit the relationship. Conversely, MAN still wants to be with BOY and for them to settle together. Meanwhile, MOTHER (Goh Guat Kian) is devastated that her son (BOY) has abandoned her and has been in relationship with MAN. As the three characters fight their own demons, SOLOS juxtaposes reality and surreal scenes in order to give clues of each character’s inner desires. The film has minimum conversation to give freedom to the audience individual interpretation of the film

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Starcrossed 2005

Starcrossed 2005

Starcrossed 2005
15min | Drama, Short | 24 April 2005 (USA)

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Darren and Connor are two star-crossed lovers bound together by blood. Set in a suburban neighborhood, Star-crossed is an atmospheric story of two brothers whose relationship develops into something more than society could ever handle. Unable to deny their feelings for each other the two brothers try to hide their relationship from an unkind world but fail. The boys decide that a world that cant understand them is a world thats not for them.

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Weekend 2011

Weekend 2011

Weekend 2011
1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 4 November 2011 (UK)

Storyline:

On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what’s expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. Weekend is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. It is about the search for identity and the importance of making a passionate commitment to your life.

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