Vaselinetjie (2017)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 41M
Director : Corné van Rooyen
Sinopse
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.
Ima jovem estudante negra chamada Sarafina é mais interessada em garotos do que em direitos civis. Só que quando sua brilhante professora Mary Masembuko ensina aos alunos sobre a opressão sofrida pelos africanos negros, Sarafina adquire uma consciência política sobre a sua realidade. Ao lado de seus colegas, ela organiza um levante, com direito a números musicais, para abrir os olhos dos demais em relação às restrições impostas pelo governo.
Shin-chan must rescue the adults of Kasukabe when they mysteriously abandon their responsibilities to relive their youth at the new 20th-century expo.
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.
A história de Abby Jensen, uma garota que está ansiosa para completar 16 anos e mantém uma lista secreta de desejos desde que era uma garotinha. Quando o Grande Dia realmente chega, ocorrem profundos desastres, deixando Abby pensar que seu aniversário está arruinado. Mas quando uma misteriosa caixa de velas de aniversário mágicas chega para mudar as coisas, os 16 Desejos de Abby começam a se tornar realidade. Seu dia fica melhor e melhor ... até que ela faz um desejo que ameaça mudar tudo.
Um misterioso Irlandês, Finian, e sua bela filha Sharon, chegam um dia em Rainbow Valley, uma pequena cidade do Sul de meeiros de tabaco no estado mítico de Missitucky. A cidade tem seu próprio residente sonhador, Woody Mahoney, que pensa que pode ser capaz de colocar a cidade no mapa fazendo o cruzamento de hortelã com o tabaco, de modo que ele já vai crescer mentolado. Finian vem para a cidade porque roubou o jarro de ouro de um Leprechaun e planeja enterra-lo no chão pois assim vai crescer mais rápido. Mas os problemas aparecem na forma de Og o Leprechaun, que seguiu Finian para a América e está empenhado em recuperar seu ouro.
Em Saigon, uma dupla de policiais se depara com a difícil missão de investigar o responsável por uma série de assassinatos a prostitutas. A solução do caso se torna ainda mais difícil quando as testemunhas também são mortas.
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.
Sugihara, nascido no Japão, mas filho de pais norte-coreanos, se apaixona por uma garota japonesa depois de mudar de uma escola norte-coreana para uma escola japonesa. Seu pai boxeador lhe ensina boxe - habilidades muito utilizadas.
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.
