Red 2020
Storyline:
In rural Pennsylvania, a teenage couple’s — James and Lizzy — relationship is interrupted by Aaron, the guy James almost hooked up with four months ago. Red explores being queer in conservative towns during hard times with empathy rather than disdain.
Die Wilden Kerle 3 (2006)
Die Wilden Kerle 3 (2006)
Die Wilden Kerle 3 (original title)
2h | Comedy, Family, Sport | 1 March 2006 (Germany)
Storyline:
The soccer team “Die wild Kerle” is once again being drummed up for a decisive game against a gang of girls, whereby the now 14-year-olds process their disappointments and fears just as much as they have to find solidarity among themselves. The simple plot is the occasion for a bombastic fantasy spectacle based on samples of relevant genre films. Made-up entertainment that pleases itself in phases when practicing hollow macho poses and phrases.
Struggle 2010
Struggle 2010
1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2010 (Canada)
Storyline:
Struggle is the story of Darren, a young gay man, who arrives in Toronto seeking a new life. Running out of money, and with nowhere to live, he quickly falls in with a group of gay rent boys. Complicating matters for himself, he falls in love with Steve, one of the group. Steve already has a boyfriend. While desperately trying to avoid becoming a prostitute himself, Darren’s loneliness and infatuation with Steve eventually sets him on a downward spiral with tragic circumstances.
Haze 2016
Haze 2016
TV-MA | 1h 46min | Drama, Thriller | 17 October 2017 (USA)
Storyline:
In the aftermath of a brutal fraternity hazing death, a college freshman’s desire to join the best fraternity on campus is compromised when his older brother launches an anti-hazing crusade. A modern retelling of ancient Greek mythology, HAZE is a sobering, realistic portrait of what truly goes on behind fraternity and sorority house walls.
Safe Harbor 2009
Safe Harbor 2009
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Drama | TV Movie 30 May 2009
Storyline:
Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.
Ithaca 2015
Ithaca 2015
PG | 1h 36min | Drama, War | 9 September 2016 (USA)
Storyline:
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain… and death… to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan’s 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of life, the sting of death, and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002
Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002
Dyskoloi apohairetismoi: O babas mou (original title)
1h 53min | Drama, Family | 27 December 2002 (Greece)
Storyline:
Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne’s stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On the eve of his departure for a long business trip he promises his son that he’ll be back in time to watch the moon landing on TV together, but he is killed in a car accident. While Elias’ mother and his elder brother deal with the loss in their own way, Elias refuses to accept his father’s death. He creates an imaginary world, in which his father is alive. He shares fictitious stories with his friends, he sends letters to his grandmother on behalf of his father and he dreams of places like he did with him. Elias’ mother and his godfather, who do everything to bring him back to reality, take him to a summer house. On the night of the moon landing Elias meets his father in his own way and comes to terms with his loss.
