Manddom 2012

Manddom 2012

Manddom 2012

Manddom 2012
16min | Short, Drama | 12 June 2012 (Denmark)

Storyline:

‘Manhood’ (Manddom [DK]) is a story about an 11-year-old boy who experiences a childhood very unlike any other children at his age. There is no safe and loving home. Silas lives with his mother and there is no father figure to be found. This causes Silas to have a distorted view of what it means to be a man. His mother is a prostitute and has costumers at home, around the clock. Silas, unfortunately, sees a lot of things a child his age should not be exposed to. ‘Manhood’ is the story about Silas’ fight to become a man and win his mother’s heart and attention.

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Au revoir les enfants 1987

Au revoir les enfants 1987

Au revoir les enfants 1987

Au revoir les enfants 1987
1h 44min | Biography, Drama, War | 7 October 1987 (France)

Storyline

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.

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Mercury Plains 2016

Mercury Plains 2016

Mercury Plains 2016
R | 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5 January 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

A troubled young man runs away to Mexico, where he is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. Isolated in the desert, he proves himself by becoming The Captain’s top soldier, but questions the group’s true purpose. As the Mexican police close in, he realizes that his only way out is to escape back to America, but first he must outwit The Captain.

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Conversations on Serious Topics 2014

Conversations on Serious Topics 2014

Conversations on Serious Topics 2014

Conversations on Serious Topics 2014
Pokalbiai rimtomis temomis (original title)
1h 5min | Documentary, Drama, Family | January 2013 (Estonia)

Storyline:

Conversations On Serious Topics is a film without exterior action, props, landscapes or special effects. Its main characters are children and teenagers with a special ability to describe the surrounding world. Intimate conversations with them reveal the picture of the modern world – at times melancholic, at times comical, at times dramatic. Shot in a minimalist fashion, the film raises questions about loneliness, love, God, the world and human relations. “The world is people.” “Don’t you believe in God? I can teach you how to start believing…”

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Im Spinnwebhaus 2013

Im Spinnwebhaus 2013

Im Spinnwebhaus 2013

Im Spinnwebhaus 2013
1h 30min | Drama, Fantasy | 31 March 2016 (Germany)

Storyline:

12-year-old Jonas takes on the responsibility for his two younger siblings when their mother abandons them. Alone and isolated inside the house, they start to drift away into their own fantastic world that soon becomes more like a haunted castle.

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