Ragazzi Fuori 1990

Ragazzi fuori 1990

Ragazzi fuori 1990

Ragazzi Fuori 1990
1h 50m | Drama | Release date: September 14, 1990 (Italy)

Storyline:

Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he’s met by Vita, a girl who’s come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?

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Beauty and the Beast 2021

Beauty and the Beast 2021

Beauty and the Beast 2021

Beauty and the Beast 2021
La belle et la bête (original title)
13m | Short, Drama, Fantasy | Release date: December 2021 (France)

Storyline:

Our program for the evening has been composed by and for grown-ups, who haven’t lost their child soul. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. As known as Beauty and the beast. Warning, some images are likely to offend homophobic sensitivity.

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Moondance 1994

Moondance 1994

Moondance 1994

Moondance 1994
1h 32m | Drama, Romance | Release date: September 7, 1995 (Germany)

Storyline:

30ish Patrick and teenage Dominic are two brothers living alone in a remote farmhouse in the Southwest of Ireland, while their mother is away traveling. When their aunt comes visiting, with her arrives Anya, a young woman from Germany who starts helping Dominic with his studies in return for a chance to improve her English. As time goes by, Patrick and Anya fall in love, while Dominic also develops feelings for the girl. And when they marry and decide to move to Dublin together, Dominic comes with them, not being able to let go of his brother.

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A Matter of Trust 2022

A Matter of Trust 2022

A Matter of Trust 2022

A Matter of Trust 2022
Ingen kender dagen (original title)
1h 45m | Drama | Release date: October 27, 2022 (Denmark)

Storyline:

On a perfectly ordinary late summer day, the lives of five unrelated people are turned upside down. A husband, a doctor, a wife, a student, and a young daughter are unsuspectingly put on a collision course with each their own fateful crossroads. In search of love, identity, and moral gauge they all risk the most precious aspect of life: Trust. But trust is vulnerable, and the consequences will be irreversible, forbidden and embarrassingly amusing.

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Oliverio y la Piscina 2021

Oliverio y la Piscina 2021

Oliverio y la Piscina 2021

Oliverio y la Piscina 2021
1h 41m | Comedy, Drama | Release date: October 25, 2021 (United States)

Storyline:

When something unexpected happens in 13-year-old Oliver’s family, all he wants to do is walk away. He takes up residence in a poolside lounge chair and decides there’s no reason to move. Ever.

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Korparna 2017

Korparna 2017

Korparna 2017

Korparna 2017
1h 47m | Drama | Release date: October 13, 2017 (Sweden)

Storyline:

1970s, Sweden – Hard working farmer Agne (played by acclaimed actor Reine Brynolfsson) struggles with the harsh reality of his daily life, hoping his teenage son Klas will take over the farm and continue his legacy. Klas however, dreams of a world far away from this rural existence. Sumptuously lensed, this powerful coming of age story, written and directed by Jens Assur, paints a tangled web of shame, guilt, madness and the dreams of youth.

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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon 1988

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon 1988

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon 1988

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon 1988
1h 30m | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Release date: February 26, 1988 (United States)

Storyline:

A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.

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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984

Los abandonados - Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984

Los abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984

Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984
1h 29m | Drama | West Germany/Mexico 1985

Storyline:

Semi-documentary film about one of those “no man’s children”, the “Abandonados”, whose fate became known in the mid 70s. The orphaned or abandoned children and young people had been deported under inhumane circumstances to a neighboring province by the Brazilian judicial authorities to relieve the overcrowded prisons, where they were abandoned without food or clothing. The specific case described should not be construed as an indictment of an event or a country, but rather as a reminder to work for the welfare of the children of our time.

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