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…
Favolacce (2020)
The sweltering summer heat beats down on a sterile residential estate in the suburbs of Rome. Many a family lives here that no longer belongs anywhere. There is a mysterious…
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 Book of Henry (2017)
In a small suburban town in the Hudson Valley, 11-year-old boy genius Henry Carpenter and his younger brother Peter are being raised by their single mother Susan, a waitress who…
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…
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…
Stand by me (1986)
A man (Richard Dreyfuss) sits in his car reading the headline of a newspaper article about a man who had been stabbed to death at a fast food restaurant. He…
Sleepers (1996)
Told through the narration of a grown-up “Shakes”, four young boys: Lorenzo “Shakes”(Joseph Perrino), Michael (Brad Renfro), Tommy (Jonathan Tucker), and John (Geoffrey Wigdor) are the best of friends growing…
The Jungle Book (2016)
The panther Bagheera opens the film by saying that there are many stories in the jungle, but none quite like that of the man-cub Mowgli. Mowgli is seen running through…
Ideal Home (2018)
A bickering gay couple must now deal with the unexpected task of raising a ten-year-old boy. Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as Erasmus and Paul, a bickering gay couple…
The Kite Runner (2007)
The two main characters of the story are Amir, a well-to-do Afghan boy from the dominant Pushtun ethnic group, and Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant Ali, who belongs…
Wonder (2017)
August “Auggie” Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) sees himself as an ordinary kid. He loves science, is a big fan of “Star Wars”, and Halloween is his favorite holiday. He lives in…