13-year-old Dato, in love with his contemporary Lena, faces a criminal authority named “Master”. The boy suddenly likes the unexpected and incomprehensible attention of a strong and strong-willed new acquaintance. But the teenager does not leave the feeling of anxiety – it seems too ambiguous there is this interest. Once the Master confesses his love to Dato ..
As Hard as You Can 2019
Aussi fort que tu peux (original title)
26min | Short, Drama, Thriller | 9 December 2019 (Germany)
Storyline:
In the middle of the countryside, Virgile is trying to reconnect with his childhood friend. But he discovers that Anthony has sunk into the throes of self-destruction and surrenders to extreme sexuality.
At the end of 1945, a young boy is taken to a brothel by his uncle to become a man. Through the evening’s bittersweet encounters, he discovers the adult world in all its cruelty.
The Power of the Dog 2021
2h 5min | Drama, Romance, Western | 4 September 2021 (USA)
Storyline:
Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil’s romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, revelling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter – all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form – he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil’s cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace?
After years of sexual denial, Yiftach leaves his family to live alone in Tel-Aviv.
Attracted to men but torn between his former and new life, Yiftach is consumed with blame and feels disconnected from everything around him. The drama moves between different time periods, raising penetrating questions regarding prejudice and life on the fringes of society.
Venice 2010
Wenecja (original title)
1h 55min | Drama | 25 May 2010 (Poland)
Storyline:
Marek is in his early teens and dreams of going to Venice. Although the war makes his plans highly unlikely, the boy won’t let his dreams drift away too easily.