The Hidden Tiger (2016)
Género : Documental, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 31M
Director : Affonso Uchôa
Sinopsis
Juninho, Menor, Neguinho, Adilson and Eldo are young residents of the Bairro Nacional, outskirts of Contagem, in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Divided between work and fun, crime and hope, each will have to find ways of overcoming difficulties and taming the tiger inside their veins.
Ola es una adolescente de catorce años a la que las circunstancias le han obligado a madurar muy rápido: debe cuidar de su hermano autista Nikodem, de quien ni su padre alcohólico o su madre ausente se harán cargo.
The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.
A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.
Para demostrar su valor, Mateo, un joven que trabaja extorsionando a comerciantes en nombre de su tío, se infiltra en un grupo de teatro para que éste espíe sus actividades políticas. Cuando su atracción por el estilo de vida del grupo crece, Mateo es forzado a tomar decisiones difíciles cuando su tío exige resultados.
A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life.
In a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. He plays with friends, horsing around, sniggering about sex, going to an outdoor movie. He works, fishing and making bricks of mud. And, he's starting to notice girls. He and his best friend fight, and he learns to his consternation that he's a foundling. A death in the family pushes Beshkempir even faster toward adult roles: he must brush tears from his eyes, lead a funeral procession, and reconcile with his friend. Then, he borrows a bicycle and calls on Aynura: courtship begins.
Todos los niños quieren estar a gusto y en forma, la vida es genial incluso cuando eres diferente. Cuando se revela el reflejo de Mo, él ve un cuerpo que no se parece mucho a ninguno de sus pares. Aquí, cuenta la historia de su juventud, creciendo en la costa sur de Long Island, Nueva York.
Una pelota blanca de ping-pong va flotando por un riachuelo hasta que la encuentra Bilgee, un niño de Mongolia. Su abuela le dice que es una perla resplandeciente que ha caído del cielo. Él se cree la historia y se pasa toda la noche en la pradera con sus dos mejores amigos: Ergotor, que no sabe montar a caballo, pero sabe conducir una moto, y Dawaa, que es muy pequeño, pero nunca se rinde. Sin embargo no llegan a ver el ansiado resplandor de la pelota y todo lo que consiguen es que sus padres les den una paliza cuando regresan a casa. Durante el festival anual de Nadam, los niños confunden la «perla resplandeciente» de Bilgee con la pelota de golf que ven en una película. El proyeccionista les sacará de la confusión y provocará el desencanto de los niños.
La historia de la madurez de un joven judío (Newman) que viaja por Europa en busca de la tumba de su bisabuelo, quien fue asesinado por los nazis en la guerra.
The story of Helena, a recently graduated attorney who works as a public defender of children and adolescents in the courts of the city of Santos, Brazil, and her brother, the teenager Caio, who will commit a serious crime. De Menor participated in Films in Progress at last year's San Sebastian Festival.
A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.
The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father's traumatizing violent outbursts in games with other children. He tries to teach Marie, who is of his age and suffers from her own relationship with her father, to feel nothing. In fact, both of them are transformed by their experience of the joys and pains of first love.
Guigo is in love with Sabrina, with whom he exchanges messages through his cell phone. He is the son of separated parents. One day he and his friend Túlio travel to a fishery with their father, Roberto, and his friend, Paulo.
25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the Central Africa Jungle and stayed. He than recorded over 1000 hours of original BaAka music. Now he is part of the BaAka community and raises his pygmy son, Samedi. Fulfilling an old promise, Louis takes Samedi to America. On this journey Louis realizes he is not part of this globalized world anymore but globalization has also arrived in the rainforest. The BaAka depend on Louis for their survival. Father and son return to the melodies of the jungle but the question remains: How much longer will the songs of the forest be heard?
La historia de una niña de 12 años, que es abandonada por sus padres junto a su hermano mayor en medio de una ruta luego de una pelea. Al poco tiempo ella quedará sola y empezará a vagar por zonas de su país y entrará en contacto con otra gente (ella pertenece a la clase alta de Recife) en un imprevisible y fascinante viaje de (auto)descubrimiento.
A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L'Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution (that culminated in the Revolution of 1848) to the May 68 generation through a chronicle of the parallel lives of a pair of childhood friends, the pragmatic Henri and idealistic Jules as they leave their bucolic, rural hometown to separately pursue their baccalaureate - and real world - educations.
Déficit follows one day of crisis in the life of Cristobal (Gael Garcia Bernal), a spoilt, rich kid throwing a party for his friends at his parents' luxurious villa. A big fence and a live-in staff of servants are there to shield Cristobal from the harsher realities of life, while his younger sister Elisa (Camila Sodi), there with her own crowd, uses drugs as her chosen means of escape. There are, however, some realities that cannot be kept at bay forever, like the reason behind their parents' prolonged absence, the gradual breakdown in the villa's amenities, and Cristobal's dwindling university prospects.
“My best friend, Anna, asked me if I would mind taking her fifteen-year-old son Itvan to Berlin with me. I accepted immediately.” An elegant, refined man in his forties sets off with Itvan on a long, enjoyable journey, his Winter Journey. They cross snowbound Germany by car. As the man drives the boy through cities and countryside, Itvan discovers the past and the vast job of reunification now underway. Poetry and culture are also part of the journey, which is accompanied by classical German music. When their paths cross with the man's former lovers or the journey provides unexpected encounters, Itvan also gets to know more about the man's own life. When they finally arrive in Berlin, their ways must part. Itvan watches the man leave, taking the melancholy of his existence with him. However their journey together has created an unbreakable tie between the two men. Itvan will never be the same again.