Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America 2023

Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America 2023

Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America 2023

Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America 2023
1h 34m | Documentary, Crime | Release date: September 6, 2023 (United States)

Storyline:

Survivors, whistle-blowers and experts recount the Boy Scouts of America’s decades long cover-up of sexual abuse cases and its heartbreaking impact.

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Levi 2022

Levi 2022

Levi 2022

Levi 2022
10m | Short, Drama | Release date: December 1, 2022 (Norway)

Storyline:

While his mom thinks he’s asleep, Levi connects with a beautiful girl on social media. She invites him to share pictures and videos of themselves, and Levi is lured into a rabbit hole full of nudity, threats and sexual abuse.

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Choose Connor 2007

Choose Connor 2007

Choose Connor 2007

Choose Connor 2007
1h 49m | Drama | 12 October 2007 (USA)

Storyline:

Idealistic 15-year old Owen gets the chance of a lifetime to be the youth spokesman for U.S. Senate Candidate Lawrence Connor, only to be exploited in a fierce campaign of TV and radio ads, posters, interviews, and speaking engagements in the cut throat media-image-is-all world of American politics.

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Amissa Anima 2021

Amissa Anima 2021

Amissa Anima 2021

Amissa Anima 2021
15m | Short, Drama | 4 June 2022 (Australia)

Storyline:

In the early 1980’s in St Kilda, a network of pedophiles preyed on street kids as young as 10 years old. The boys who survived this trauma, now as adults have shared their stories and collaborated in writing a short screen drama in a journey to personal and social healing. Four boys survive on the night streets of St Kilda in the 1980s, turning tricks for a feed and drugs. The fragile balance is broken when an act of betrayal pushes them to perform an unspeakable act.

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A Place Called Dignity 2021

A Place Called Dignity 2021

A Place Called Dignity 2021

A Place Called Dignity 2021
Un lugar llamado dignidad (original title)
1h 39m | Drama | 15 August 2021 (Chile)

Storyline:

Pablo, a 12-year-old boy, receives a scholarship to attend school in the mysterious and isolated Colonia Dignidad, established in Chile by German settlers. He quickly becomes the favorite of the leader of the colony, Uncle Paul. Over time, Pablo witnesses the strangest things that happen there: abuse, disappearances and demon-like creatures used to scare children. But in this wicked world, a revolution is brewing, and it may be the only way for Pablo to get out.

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Som en Zorro 2012

Som en Zorro 2012

Som en Zorro 2012

Som en Zorro 2012
29m | Short, Drama | 20 June 2012 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Zorro‘s mother is a drinker. Kevin is abused by a teacher, his father beats his mother. The two boys are only happy when they are in each other‘s company: They spend the day together and in the evening they go to a party down by the harbour. The next day they are in for a bad awakening. A film about family love and domestic violence.

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Forever Mary 1989

Forever Mary 1989

Forever Mary 1989

Forever Mary 1989
Mery per sempre (original title)
1h 42m | Drama, Crime | 4 May 1989 (Italy)

Storyline:

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?

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In the Name of the Father 2002

In the Name of the Father 2002

In the Name of the Father 2002

In the Name of the Father 2002
Em Nome do Pai (original title)
17m | Short, Drama | 2002 (Brasil)

Storyline:

In the suburb of Săo Paulo, this banal love story takes place. A common family, father,
mother, two children, the dog… and the hidden…the perverse desires of violence.

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