Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992

Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992

Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992

Tule tagasi, Lumumba 1992
1h 18min | Drama | 12 August 1992 (Estonia)

Storyline:

A boy, nicknamed Lumumba after a famous African freedom fighter, arrives in a sleepy little Estonian town. His guardian aunt has taken a position there as cultural coordinator. At school he meets Elsa and Rein, who lost his mother recently, and together they go through the first emotional blast of adolescence.

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Show Me Love 1998

Show Me Love 1998

Show Me Love 1998

Show Me Love 1998
Fucking Åmål (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 29min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 23 October 1998 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Åmål is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her but is too shy to do anything about it. For a number of reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes’ birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl’s night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own feelings toward Agnes.

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Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998
Los amantes del Círculo Polar (original title)
R | 1h 52min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 28 August 1998 (Spain)

Storyline:

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.

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Rolling Elvis 2019

Rolling Elvis 2019

Rolling Elvis 2019

Rolling Elvis 2019
1h 30min | Comedy, Family | 7 January 2019 (Colombia)

Storyline:

It’s 1985 and while the country is focused in the victories of the national cyclists in the Tour of France, life changes in the blink of an eye for Elvis Antonio, a 12 year old boy passionate for pro cycling and her ex-hippie mom, a big Elvis Presley fan; when Elvis skips school to watch TV and is caught, her mom forces him to enter the school talent show dressed as Elvis Presley, as punishment. Elvis Antonio runs away and starts a painful but hilarious journey that leads him to discover the biggest secret his family keeps.

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Wallay 2017

Wallay 2017

Wallay 2017

Wallay 2017
G | 1h 24min | Drama | 28 June 2017 (France)

Storyline:

Ady, a 13 year-old boy, no longer listens to his father, who raises him alone in southern France. The father running out of resources, decides to entrust Ady to his uncle Amadou for the summer. Uncle Amadou and his family live across the Mediterranean Sea in Burkina Faso! There, at 13 years of age, one must become a man but Ady, persuaded to go on holiday, understands things differently.

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The Northerners 1992

The Northerners 1992

The Northerners 1992

The Northerners 1992
De noorderlingen (original title)
1h 48min | Comedy, Drama | 17 April 1992 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960’s housing development. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas, a young boy, becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news. The liberation of the Belgian Congo is taking place and Thomas becomes Lumumba, one of the contenders as the Congo’s new leader. He is encouraged in this escapism by Plagge, the postman who reads all the mail and knows all of the bizzarre and intimate secrets of the eccentric inhabitants of the estate.

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