Absence (2014)

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.

Marcos y su familia trabajan como peones de rancho. Mientras su padre y su hermano se encargan de las tareas más pesadas, Marcos se queda en casa, cerca de su madre. Cada uno tiene ante sí su futuro, pero Marcos espera su momento en el Carnaval, el único instante en el que puede dejar que su verdadero yo brille. La repentina muerte de su padre deja a su familia en una situación muy vulnerable. El dueño del rancho los persigue para que se vayan, mientras que la madre de Marcos lo presiona para que se haga cargo del trabajo en el campo. Apodada Marilyn por los otros adolescentes de la ciudad, Marcos es blanco del deseo y la discriminación.

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.

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.

As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a report, runs into hospitals, morgues. Alone, he wanders through a metropolis, searching for news about the sudden and mysterious disappearance of his wife.

Lo curioso de esta película es el hecho de que hasta trece cineastas van a aportar su pequeño granito de arena con la intención de mostrar varias perspectivas acerca de Sarajevo, exhibiendo con ello una serie de lecciones sobre los aspectos más ilusionantes pero también más crueles de dicho territorio en el viejo continente. La trama arranca en el desarrollo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, siguiendo a continuación con muchos de los sucesos ocurridos en uno de los puntos más destacados en lo que se refiere a la evolución histórica de Europa en el siglo XX.

Marcelo is a journalist. Carlos is a former car-thief. Renata is a woman torn apart by two relationships as diverse as her desires. Exu is the ever becoming.

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.

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.

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 man leaves his wife alone every evening to gamble and enjoy the nightlife. But one night, when he arrives home, he finds her drinking and smoking languorously next to the butler.

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 boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The man is a driver of the imposing Big Jet, a pickup truck used to clean the city's cesspools without basic sanitation. But the boy is more interested in the ideas of his uncle, a libertarian and anarchist artist. As he discovers his first love, Chico realizes the vocation to become a poet.

Mina (Priscila Fantin) is arrested for defrauding the Social Security and beyond to defend the other inmates need to escape from the prison director of surveillance (Tuca Andrada). The crime involved a Senator (Antonio Calloni), trying in every way to prevent your participation to surface.

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.

A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life.

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.

Jay, un profesor de escuela homosexual, es brutalmente asesinado. Antes de que su familia se entere del terrible suceso, un productor de televisión es informado del crimen y propone hacer un reality show que gire en torno al siniestro acontecimiento. ¿Accederá la familia a exponerse ante las cámaras? ¿Podrá la muerte convertirse en entretenimiento para miles de espectadores?

Matthew es un niño que acaba de dejar la escuela. Es guapo y atlético y se cree gay. Mantiene una amistad con un solo amigo de la escuela, Phil, que se ha mantenido con Matthew a pesar de las reacciones hostiles de sus compañeros. A medida que su relación se vuelve más intensa, la novia de Phil, Sharon, y sus compañeros de clase se vuelven vengativos y agresivos. Los dos amigos se encuentran condenados al ostracismo tanto por amigos como por familiares y deciden huir.

“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.