Monica and Friends: Lessons 2021
Monica and Friends: Lessons 2021
Turma da Mônica: Lições (original title)
1h 37m | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 30 December 2021 (Brazil)
Storyline:
Monica and friends try to play hooky and it backfires. Now, they must face the consequences throughout a journey where they must learn valuable lessons about the real value of friendship.
Toña machetes 1985
Toña machetes 1985
2h 2m | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 31 January 1985 (Mexico)
Storyline:
A powerful and wealthy woman one day finds her abandoned son, roughly seven years old, returned to her by her father (the boy’s grandfather). Of course, the boy is a stranger to her. At first, our rather bitchy heroine treats the boy harshly, but with time she develops a loving relationship with him, and the new man she’s engaged to. Trouble is, a former lover has a score to settle with her and the boy finds himself in the middle of a murderous squabble.
Buster’s World 2021
Buster’s World 2021
Buster: Oregon Mortensen (original title)
1h 32m | Family | 17 June 2021 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Buster, 11, loves everything about his life. He’s an optimist who knows that the going can get tough, but if you apply a little magic and a lot of love, things will work out.
The Shadow in My Eye 2021
The Shadow in My Eye 2021
Skyggen i mit øje (original title)
1h 47m | Drama, History, War | 28 October 2021 (Denmark)
Storyline:
On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo’s headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.
Hans Staden 1999
Hans Staden 1999
1h 32m | Biography, Drama, History | 31 July 1999 (Portugal)
Storyline:
On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.
Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass 2015
Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass 2015
Toi Thay Hoa Vang Tren Co Xanh (original title)
1h 43m | Drama | 2 October 2015 (Vietnam)
Storyline:
Set in the countryside village of Vietnam, Yellow Flowers on the Green grass is a touching tale of innocent love, friendships and brotherhood.
L’école est finie 1979
L’école est finie 1979
1h 37m | Comedy, Drama | 10 October 1979 (France)
Storyline:
Julien is fifteen years old and divides his time between school, friends, and a sculpture workshop, that of Erick, which represents a place of escape for the young man. Natalie is sixteen years old. She prepares the BEPC as a free candidate and follows, from time to time.
Isaac 2020
Isaac 2020
1h 24m | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 26 September 2021 (USA)
Storyline:
Two friends meet after sixteen years, but neither one is who he once was in the past. Both have partners, but they are very different. Nacho and Marta are a perfect bourgeois married couple with good jobs, but they are unhappy because they are unable to get pregnant. The other couple, Denis and Carmen, are freer and more liberal; they live hand to mouth and are trying to get money to open a restaurant. When Denis offers to be their surrogate parent for the money they need to open the restaurant, the two couples will have to face their shortcomings and seek the happiness they have not yet found, even if it means breaking their own rules – even when the pregnancy is far along.
The Invisible Thread 2022
The Invisible Thread 2022
Il filo invisibile (original title)
1h 30m | Comedy, Drama, Family | 21 February 2022 (Italy)
Storyline:
Leone, 16 years old and two dads, Simone and Paolo, was born in California thanks to Tilly, an American woman who helped his parents to bring him into the world. Leone then grew up in Italy like all the other children but he also experienced the struggles for rights in which his family participated. All this is told in a short video that Leone is preparing as a school assignment together with Jacopo, his best friend. Just as, dodging prejudices and misunderstandings about his sexuality, Leone is about to experience his first love story, the solidity of his family seems to be in danger. Living a complex family situation will push Leo to reflect on the true nature of the “invisible thread” that binds him to his fathers and to all those who wanted his birth.
