Greencard Warriors (2014)
The fight for a better life.
Gênero : Ação, Drama, Romance
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : Miriam Kruishoop
Escritor : Miriam Kruishoop
Sinopse
The tragic struggle of an undocumented Latino family in Los Angeles after they have sent their eldest son to war.
Subúrbio de Paris, durante o verão. Marie (Paulien Acquart), Anne (Louisse Blachère) e Floriane (Adele Haenel) são amigas e têm 15 anos. Elas praticam nado sincronizado e, enquanto convivem pelos corredores e vestiários da academia, começam a ter os primeiros sentimentos de desejo, amor e violência.
A universitária Danielle se depara com uma série de encontros constrangedores em uma shivá, um período de luto no judaísmo. Na presença de parentes autoritários, ela fica amedrontada pelo aparecimento de uma ex-namorada e de seu sugar daddy secreto, que chega inesperadamente com sua esposa e bebê.
Uma jovem tem um plano para propor casamento à sua namorada na festa de Natal da família, mas descobre que sua parceira ainda não se assumiu perante seus pais conservadores.
Jovem estagiária de uma revista se envolve com uma fotógrafa lésbica e viciada em drogas. Elas exploram uma a outra na tentativa de avançar em suas carreiras. Contudo, as duas vão aos poucos se apaixonando.
A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
É em um fim de semana inesperado e desinibido que um caso de amor apaixonado se inicia entre duas mulheres. Dallas, carpinteira, e Jasmine, uma editora de moda, compartilham uma conexão poderosa e imediata que inevitavelmente vai mudar a vida das duas para sempre.
A ardente chefe criminosa Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster de Velozes e Furiosos) está novamente na ativa e as D.E.B.S. - uma equipe de elite de super espiãs colegiais paramilitares - estão à sua procura. Mas quando sua melhor agente, a estonteante Amy Bradshaw (Sara Foster de O Golpe), desaparece misteriosamente depois de ficar frente a frente com a atraente vilã, as D.E.B.S. começam uma procura incansável pelo esconderijo secreto de Lucy e nem suspeitam que Amy talvez não queira ser resgatada nesta paródia sobre espiãs sensuais e seus encontros amorosos com armas.
Flagrada pelo namorado transando com a melhor amiga em pleno baile de formatura, Cameron Post é enviada pela tia para um centro religioso que afirma curar jovens atraídos pelo mesmo sexo, mas para se submeter ou não ao suposto tratamento, a adolescente precisa antes descobrir quem é de fato.
França, 1760. Marianne é contratada para pintar o retrato de casamento de Héloïse, uma jovem mulher que acabou de deixar o convento. Por ela ser uma noiva relutante, Marianne chega sob o disfarce de companhia, observando Héloïse de dia e a pintando secretamente à noite. Conforme as duas mulheres se aproximam, a intimidade e a atração crescem, enquanto compartilham os primeiros e últimos momentos de liberdade de Héloïse, antes do casamento iminente. O retrato de Héloïse logo se torna um ato colaborativo e o testamento do amor delas.
Therese Belivet tem um emprego entediante em uma loja de departamentos. Um dia, ela conhece Carol, uma elegante e misteriosa cliente. Rapidamente, as duas mulheres desenvolvem um vínculo amoroso que terá consequências sérias.
Ava, 13 anos, está de férias no litoral quando descobre que vai perder a visão mais rápido do que o esperado. Sua mãe decide agir como se nada estivesse acontecendo para aproveitarem o melhor verão de suas vidas. Ava confronta o problema à sua maneira: ela voa em um cão preto e grande que pertence a um jovem homem em fuga…
Crescer não é nada fácil para alguns, como para Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), uma estudante que está enfrentando uma difícil situação desde que sua melhor amiga, Krista (Haley Lu Richardson), está namorando com o seu irmão mais velho, Darian (Blake Jenner). Nadine se sente mais sozinha do que nunca, ao menos até começar uma amizade com um jovem atencioso (Hayden Szeto).
Nos anos 2000, Alice é uma adolescente do meio-oeste devota ao catolicismo. Quando um chat online faz com que ela descubra a masturbação, ela passa a ser consumida por culpa e procurar desesperadamente por redenção divina.
Uma história atemporal de relações humanas e autoconhecimento, o drama Moonlight narra a vida de um jovem afro-americano desde a infância até a vida adulta e a luta dele para encontrar seu lugar no mundo enquanto cresce num bairro violento de Miami. Ao mesmo tempo um retrato essencial da vida contemporânea do afro-americano e uma reflexão intensa, pessoal e poética sobre identidade, família e amizade, a produção independente Moonlight é ainda uma obra de cinema inovadora que ecoa uma profunda compaixão e verdades universais. Ancorada em extraordinárias performances de um talentoso elenco, a direção estupenda de Barry Jenkins traz sua visão única e profundamente comovente sobre o caleidoscópio de momentos, pessoas e forças desconhecidas que determinam nossas vidas e nos fazem ser quem somos.
Nos anos 1971, a França está atravessando a época da liberação sexual e o ápice do feminismo. Neste contexto, Delphine abandona a sua família no interior do país para descobrir a vida intensa em Paris. Chegando à capital, conhece Carole, que vive com o namorado Manuel. Delphine e Carole se aproximam e iniciam uma história de amor.
Wil Pang (Michelle Krusiec) é uma jovem cirurgiã com uma promissora carreira e um imenso problema. Solteira, aos 28 anos, ela descobre ser lésbica ao se apaixonar pela bailarina Vivian (Lynn Chen). Enquanto se encontra às escondidas com a namorada, Wil pensa em um jeito de contar a novidade a sua mãe, a viúva Ma (Joan Chen). Sua vida toma um rumo inesperado numa noite em que Wil encontra a mãe na porta de sua casa. Grávida, Ma foi expulsa da conservadora comunidade chinesa de onde elas vieram por se negar a revelar o nome do pai da criança. Agora as duas precisam se entender.
Belle 19 anos, é uma violinista que vive em uma pequena aldeia na Holanda. Todos ao seu redor parecem obcecados com o sexo: o namorado, a irmã e especialmente sua mãe. Mas o que interessa para Belle é unicamente seu violino e ela irá em busca de seu sonho. Mas para alcança-lo ela terá que derrubar algumas barreiras.
Depois de completar 17 anos, Daphne Reynolds decide tomar uma decisão radical: partir para a Inglaterra para encontrar seu pai, que ela conhece apenas por uma foto antiga e que não sabia da gravidez quando se separou de Libby, mãe de Daphne. Lá, ela encontra um pai amoroso, mas enfrenta problemas ao ver confrontada sua educação liberal com os rígidos costumes da educação britânica.
15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than she is.
Prestes a fazer 15 anos, Georgia está de olho no lindo e sensual Robbie, o novo rapaz da escola, membro da banda Stiff Dylans. Infelizmente, Robbie já está saindo com sua cruel arqui-rival, a loira e perfeita Lindsay. Com a ajuda de seus bem-intencionados pais, seu exótico gato Angus e sua turma, Georgia põe em prática seus loucos planos para agarrar um fabuloso namorado e curtir o melhor de todos os aniversários!
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.
Every kid wants to be cool and fit in - life's a blast even when you're different. When Mo's reflection is revealed, he sees a body that doesn't quite resemble any of his peers. Here, he tells the tale of his youth, growing up on the south shore of Long Island, New York
A young Jewish boy travels europe in search of the grave of his Great Grandfather who was killed by the Nazis in the War.
Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beautifully shot film on the illusions and disillusionments of childhood.
“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.
The story begins with an experiment. A filmmaker in the country of Georgia posts an ad inviting youth to audition for her film. Facing the camera, the hopefuls confess their struggles and dreams. These raw interviews unfold seamlessly into cinematic slivers of Georgian life.
A group of boys, roughly seven to eleven years of age, go skinny-dipping in a river near their small Mexican town one afternoon and there find themselves the butt of an old vagabond's practical joke, the man stealing all their clothes from them. Humiliated about having to walk home in the buff, the tykes decide to get even, declare war. Yet, as the generations battle it out, a mutual respect develops, the depth of which is evident once the man has a heart attack during one of his romps with the kids. Will the boys' older pal recuperate so that they can engage in one final battle.
The story takes place in a small village on the beach of Sea of Azov at the beginning of 1960s. Adolescents passionately dream of love about which they have heard from their elder experienced friends. 16 year-old Ignat is the first to find out what the real feeling is. His love for an adventuress who pretends to be a singer from capital becomes destructive.
If the scorpion could see and the viper could hear, there would be no escape". The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return "to the curve where man got lost" in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The amazement, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the meeting with the other, the other animal, the other vegetable. A dive looking for a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not.
In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.
A contemporary evocation of Judas Iscariot trying to escape from his own guilt after betraying his best friend. He wanders into a forest and lost in himself, meets a mysterious young man. The young companion will accompany him on this path of repentance and penance and help him deal with his feelings, understand his guilt and cope with he has done. This is the story of the last three days of a repentant.
Matthew is a boy who just left school. He is handsome and athletic and believes himself to be gay. He retains a friendship with only one school friend, Phil, who has stuck by Matthew despite hostile reactions from his peers. As their relationship grows more intense, Phil's girlfriend Sharon and his classmates become vindictive and aggressive. The two friends find themselves ostracized by both friends and family and decide to run away.
Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film, one is living, the other dead. The living Jay is producing a documentary of the dead Jay, a gay teacher who was brutally killed. As Jay recreates and examines the life of his subject, his own life is affected when he unravels his subject's hidden life and secret love.
In the Lesotho highlands, a 15-year-old boy tends his family's flock of sheep alone through the winter. His younger brother might have to quit the village school to help him. And two girls attempt to maintain their unique friendship when one of them goes off to attend a better school and the other stays in the village. Over the span of two years the film accompanies four teenagers in an isolated mountain village on their path to adulthood - a path between individuation and tradition.
Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.
Surreal tale of a 14 year-old boy who dreams of escaping the loneliness from an unhappy home & sexual abuse (from his mother's boyfriend who is also his school swimming coach). One day his back mysteriously sprouts feathers and he can metaphorically fly away from it all.
The story takes place in the summer of 1995 outside of Gothenburg, Sweden, during the rise of Neo-Nazi violence that was sweeping across the country. The film "John Hron" is the true story about a teenager, his friends and family. John is caught up in defense of a student being bullied in school. As the conflict with the bully escalates it soon causes strain between John and his friends.
15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and finds refuge in his dreams and playing the saxophone. Only when he joins a band and began performing there Moritz pulled out of the vicious circle, and finds love with new friends...
Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.
A family finds itself in a dead-end situation. They are only safe behind the walls of their own house and yard. As time vanishes from their home, the shelter slowly turns into a prison. However, nothing can keep the children from dreaming and yearning to be free and the urge to make a decision seems inevitable.