The Butterfly Tree 2017
The Butterfly Tree 2017
1h 37min | Drama, Family | 23 November 2017 (Australia)
Storyline:
Evelyn, an ex-burlesque queen, bewitches single dad Al and his teenage son Fin with her zest for life. When father and son discover they are competing for the affections of the same woman, it reopens old wounds over the death of Fin’s mother.
If I Had Wings 2013
If I Had Wings 2013
PG | 1h 29min | Drama, Family, Sport | December 2013 (Canada)
Storyline:
Seventeen-year-old Alex Taylor dreams of running for his high school’s cross-country team, a dream that’s a bit out of reach for this gifted runner as Alex has been blind since the age of two. Determined to run, he practices with his father, Probation Officer Geoff Taylor. Geoff, with additional girth and age working against him, finds he no longer can keep up with his son. He must find a running partner at the school who’s fast enough to help Alex make the cross-country team. This help comes from the unlikeliest of sources. Brad Coleman, a schoolmate of Alex’s, spends most of his time running from the law. Caught in a pathetic daytime robbery attempt, Brad faces incarceration for repeat offenses. To keep Brad out of jail and in school, Geoff makes a deal and pairs the two boys, opposite in many ways. Despite a rocky start over their many differences, an unlikely friendship forms.
Reinventing Marvin 2017
Reinventing Marvin 2017
Marvin ou la belle éducation (original title)
1h 55min | Drama | 22 November 2017 (France)
Storyline:
A young man runs away from his family to become an actor.
Semicolon 2017
25min | Drama |
Storyline:
Timo is gay. Because a boy in his class came out publicly, he gathers the courage to tell his friends but they don’t react the way he had hoped for. On top of that, his homophobic parents also find out. As he then also starts receiving anonymous threats, he doesn’t see any way out of this mess.
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You 2011
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Drama | 5 October 2012 (USA)
Storyline:
James Sveck is a lonely youth in the summer before he goes off to college at Brown University. Apart from hanging with his grandmother, James prefers solitude. The story is told in first person narration, which helps give an intimate inside view of James as he works through his life at the therapy sessions which his parents insist he goes to. We learn about James’s past and present through the stories he tells.
The Boy with the Topknot 2017
1h 30min | Drama | TV Movie 8 November 2017
Storyline:
One-off drama based on the critically acclaimed memoirs of British journalist Sathnam Sanghera. A touching, humorous and emotional rites-of-passage story.
Children of the Corn Runaway 2018
1h 22min | Horror | Video 13 March 2018
Storyline:
The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.
Alan Smithee 2012
Alan Smithee 2012
30min | Short, Comedy, Drama | 2012 (USA)
Storyline:
‘Alan Smithee’ is a film about a boy growing up. It delves into the darker side of what ‘growing up’ sometimes means: growing into your flaws, inevitably being met with the errors of your parents, and the necessity to make room for the pain. While Alan is surrounded by what is thought to be the American ideal, all the material comforts that should equate happiness, he learns that sometimes all we are is lost in the woods.
