Love Strange Love (1982)
In 1937 São Paulo, 12-year-old Hugo comes from Santa Catarina, his grandmother returning him to his mother Anna, who is now with Osmar, the state’s most influential politician. She lives…
Vuelve (2013)
In an old monastery with a heavy and violent past lives Gabriel, thirteen years old, with his mother suffering from Cotard syndrome, a mental illness causing depression and self-destruction, and…
For my Brother (2014)
The two brothers Aske and Bastian live with their father, Lasse, in a world of fear, violence and alcohol but the brothers’ strong and close relationship means everything. Aske must…
Ten Canoes (2006)
The story takes place in two periods in the past. In the first story, shot in black-and-white, a young man called Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil) takes part in his first hunt…
The Devil’s Playground (1976)
The Devil’s Playground is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story…
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the…
North Sea Texas (2011)
Sensitive fatherless Pim, a shy closet gay, grows up as utterly neglected son of Yvette, a hedonistic nightclub waitress at the Flemish North Sea coast. Pim finds solace with the…
The Baby of Macon (1993)
A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth…
Robby (1968)
Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a young boy (Robbie) befriends an abandoned native youth, forcing him to reevaluate societal prejudice about race, religion and nudity. Boys and nature untouched, unspoiled…
You are not Alone (1978)
Two precocious boys explore their sexuality at boarding school. A student strike at a Danish boys school is the backdrop of YOU ARE NOT ALONE. The leisurely paced tale explores…
For a Lost Soldier (1992)
The story of a romantic relationship between a grown-up and a child. Set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII, the film is a flashback recalling an adolescent relationship…