Vaselinetjie (2017)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 41分
演出 : Corné van Rooyen
シノプシス
At the age of 8, Vaselinetjie is taken away by the Welfare and send to the orphanage. It's a strange, hard, dangerous world of rebel children, fierce house mothers,friends, first loves and where she finally finds true self-acceptance.
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for a new life on her husband's isolated ranch, Jeannie's feisty, good-natured attitude soon wins over the misogynistic stockmen, but she faces a much tougher challenge in trying to change their racist attitudes towards the indigenous aboriginal population.
Singer Paul Simon and several African musicians perform a concert to benefit victims of apartheid in South Africa.
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埼玉県春日部に突如出現したテーマパーク“20世紀博”。そこでは、しんのすけの父ひろしや母みさえが育った1970年代の暮らしが再現されていて、いつしか大人たちは、子どもそっちのけでノスタルジックな世界に魅了されていく。やがて、ついに大人たちが20世紀博の会場から戻ってこない異常事態に発展、しんちゃんと仲間たち“カスカベ防衛隊”は、パークを仕切る秘密結社“イエスタデイ・ワンスモア”に立ち向かう。
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.
An elderly man owns a small, isolated general store, somewhere in rural South Africa. After suffering a series of burglaries, which culminate in the murder of a night-watchman, the Storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands - with tragic consequences.
A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
John-John is young and black, growing up with his mother and stepfather in a boring suburb south of Stockholm. On one of the last days of the summer vacation, they rescue 10-year old Patricia from drowning at a public bath in Vinterviken in Lake Mälaren. Her father shows his gratitude by taking them home to the wealthy neighborhood, Bromma, where he and his family lives. John-John meets his daughter Elisabeth, and instantly fall in love with her. But it's a long way to go before he wins her love and her father's consent.
The story about Abby Jensen, a girl who's been eager to reach her 16th birthday and has kept a secret wish list since she was a little girl. When the Big Day actually arrives, utter disaster strikes, leaving Abby to think her birthday is ruined. But when a mysterious box of magical birthday candles arrives to turn things around, Abby's 16 Wishes start to come true. Her day gets better and better...until she makes one wish that threatens to change everything.
A leprechaun follows an Irishman who stole his pot of gold to the American South.
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger.
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio.
An American woman gets involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.
在日韓国人三世の杉原は、日本の普通高校に通う3年生。あだ名はクルパー。ハワイ旅行をきっかけに朝鮮から韓国に国籍を変えた父親・秀吉に叩き込まれたボクシングで、喧嘩や悪さに明け暮れる日々を送っている。友だちは、ヤクザの息子・加藤や民族中学校で杉原と共に教師から目の敵にされていた同級生の元秀や先輩のタワケ。だが、杉原にもリスペクトする男がいた。民族中学校開校以来の秀才と言われた正一だ。ある日、杉原は加藤のバースデイ・パーティで桜井という少女と恋に落ちる。ちょっと風変わりな彼女とぎこちないデートを重ね、気持ちを近づけていく杉原。しかし、自分が在日であることは告白しかねていた。そんな中、正一が駅のホームで少年に刺されて死んだ。誤解が原因で起こった悲劇だ。親友を失ったショックに愕然となった杉原は、その夜、桜井と一夜を共にし、自分が在日であることを彼女に告白する。ところがそれを聞いた途端、桜井の態度が急変した。打ちひしがれた杉原は、やり場のない思いを父親にぶつけるが、反対にのされてしまう。だがその時、彼は国籍や民族にとらわれない世の中を作ってやろうと心に誓うのであった。それから半年後のクリスマス・イヴ。大学受験に向けて勉強中の杉原。夜、桜井からの電話で呼び出された彼は、偏見を払拭した彼女とよりを戻す
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.