Boy 2010

Boy 2010

Boy 2010
1h 27min | Comedy, Drama | 25 March 2010 (New Zealand)

Storyline:

It’s 1984, and Michael Jackson is king-even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy’s father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters.

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Mirakel 2000

Mirakel 2000

Mirakel 2000
1h 20min | Family, Musical, Drama | 13 October 2000 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Ttwelve-year-old boy Dennis P lives in Copenhagen with his mother. Since the death of his father, his mother has been both depressed and overprotective. At school he struggles to cope with a mean and obsessive teacher, and the girl he likes seems to be more interested in his best friend than him. One day he walks into a church and, expecting little effect, exclaims his wishes of better luck at home and at school. Miraculously, an angel who looks a lot like Dennis’ father appears and presents him the gift of a pair of angel wings. From then on, Dennis can literally get anything he points at, changing the behaviour of other people as he sees fit. It’s the experience of a lifetime, but can it last?

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Children 1976

Children 1976

Children 1976

Children 1976
43min | Short, Drama | November 1976 (USA)

Storyline

Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He’s ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father’s death, there’s a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.

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Short Skin 2014

Short Skin 2014

Short Skin 2014

Short Skin – I dolori del giovane Edo 2014
1h 26min | Comedy, Drama | 30 August 2014 (Italy)

Storyline

Since childhood Edoardo has been suffering from phimosis, a penis malformation which prevents him from experiencing sexual satisfaction. Now seventeen, he starts to feel some pressure from the outside world. Apparently everyone around him talks and thinks about sex: his friend Arturo, so obsessed with losing his virginity that is wanting to pay for it, his parents, encouraging him to declare his love to Bianca, even his little sister Olivia, looking for a good partner for the family dog Teagan. Edoardo’s lack of confidence starts changing with the casual meeting of a new girl, Elisabetta, and the unexpected approach of Bianca. Forced to come out of the shadow he was hiding in, Edoardo tries first to solve his problem with clumsy strategies, finding finally the courage to face his fears.

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From Afar 2015

From Afar 2015

From Afar 2015
Desde allá (original title)
1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 21 January 2016 (Italy)

Storyline:

Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. He finds a young man of the streets who negotiates a fee high enough for the boy to be used to provide Armando’s masturbatory object. Although a following encounter ends in a beating for Armando, he continues to make the boy dependent. What is the final result that Armando desires? Is it something more than a conflicted relationship with a hustler?

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Parle tout bas Si c’est d’amour 2012

Parle tout bas Si c'est d'amour 2012

Parle tout bas Si c’est d’amour 2012
1h 30min | Comedy | TV Movie 17 June 2015

Storyline:

A biology teacher who is asked to show his students how to use a condom. A grandmother who loves talking about relationships and sexuality. Parents who are upset and a principal who’s fed up but concerned about his students’ health. A mother who worships a long-gone man… Caroline and Olivier are sixteen, and they’d like it if their parents and teachers would stop wanting to talk to them about love, since most of them obviously don’t understand a thing about teenage feelings. Caroline and Olivier love each other. And they’re scared. Scared not to be up to the task of their love story. They want their first time to be beautiful and wonderful…

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Amphetamine 2010

Amphetamine 2010

Amphetamine 2010

Amphetamine 2010
An fei ta ming (original title)
1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 8 April 2010 (Hong Kong)

Storyline

Openly gay banker Daniel debates whether to return to Australia or stay in Hong Kong when he meets Kafka, a straight swimming instructor. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference in sexuality and Kafka’s increasing drug use. Daniel does not regret his love for Kafka, who tries to love him back against his nature. But a flashback memory from Kafka’s past makes it difficult for their relationship to work.

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Herz Im Kopf 2001

Herz Im Kopf 2001

Herz Im Kopf 2001
1h 30min | Drama, Romance | 6 June 2002 (Germany)

Storyline:

akob, an 18-year-old boy, comes back to Frankfurt after he left after his mothers death one year ago. While trying to sort his life he meets a Polish Au-Pair, Wanda, and falls in love with her. But there are several disappointments on both sides…

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