Toutes les nuits (2001)

Young Jorgelina feels estranged from her boy-crazy older sister, who has entered adolescence and doesn't want to hang around with little kids anymore. Finding refuge in their Boyita camper-van, Jorgelina travels with her father to the countryside, where her lifelong playmate Mario is undergoing some unexpected changes.

At a gathering of would-be society debauchees, the Baron Plessis de Regard and the attractive young Nathalie hatch their individual plans to use sex to respectively ruin and punish their selected enemies. The Baron's plan is to scupper the political ambitions of right-wing parliamentary candidate Colonel Montvilliers by setting him up with a female companion and publicly exposing his new-found vices. Nathalie's quest is of a more personal nature, to destroy her estranged father Charles Leroy-Merville by corrupting his innocent 17-year-old daughter Sophie, a task she intends to achieve by securing employ as the girl's summer tutor.

Juninho, Menor, Neguinho, Adilson e Eldo são jovens moradores do bairro do Nacional, na periferia de Contagem. Divididos entre o trabalho e o lazer, o crime e a esperança, cada um deles terá que encontrar maneiras de superar os obstáculos e domar o tigre que mora dentro deles.

A advogada Helena é uma jovem idealista que defende crianças e jovens infratores. Ela tem a custódia de seu irmão caçula, Caio. Órfãos, os dois têm um relacionamento de muita cumplicidade e o afeto entre eles é visível, mas Caio é um adolescente instável e impulsivo, que vive cercado por amigos de reputação duvidosa. Um dia, o jovem comete um delito e torna-se réu na Vara da Infância e Juventude de Santos, local onde Helena trabalha.

A group of children tells to the camera how they torture various animals, such as lizards, cats or mice. One of them tells how last summer, after attacking a cat with his friends, he saw something that made him reflect on what they did.

Joca (Eduardo Macedo), um jovem de treze anos, descobre o amor quando conhece Basano (Adeli Benitez), uma menina paraguaia. No entanto, para conquistá-la, Joca passará por grandes dificuldades relativos a problemas de fronteira entre o Brasil e o Paraguai e a relação seu irmão Fernando (Cauã Reymond), um homem que pertence a uma perigosa gangue de motociclistas.

At the impressionable age of 16, young Mateo faces a dilemma about the direction his life will take when his corrupt uncle asks him to infiltrate a local Barrancabermeja theatre group to uncover its members' political activities.

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

When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives apart from them and is mainly heard the phone. Most of all she wants to reunite a family that simply doesn’t work — like a defective TV set. She lives in the hope of bringing her mother back home. Her 13 year old brother Nikodem’s Holy Communion is a pretext for the family to meet up. Ola is entirely responsible for preparing the perfect family celebration. “Communion” reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that failure is not final. Especially when love is in question.

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.

É o auge do verão no camping de Maremma, na Toscana. É a última tentativa de Vincenzo e Adriana, um jovem casal à beira do divórcio, para salvarem seu casamento, que está ameaçado. Nic, seu filho de 12 anos, é como seu pai - não consegue controlar sua violência. Ele consegue se impor num pequeno grupo de crianças, mas não consegue expressar seus sentimentos por Marie, uma adolescente dilacerada pelo abandono de seu pai.

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.

Srubov é agente da CHEKA, a polícia secreta de Lenin montada após a Revolução Bolchevique. Eles prendem, interrogam por um minuto, decidem em dez segundos, e executam. Executam intelectuais, aristocratas, padres, judeus e suas famílias. No porão do edifício, cinco pessoas são executadas ao mesmo tempo enquanto estão nuas de frente para portas de madeira. Ninguém se lembra de pedir suas últimas palavras; não há mártires, apenas corpos anônimos. Diariamente temos o julgamento rápido, as execuções, o carregamento de corpos para os vagões. Srubov é frio, distante, sexualmente disfuncional, e um pensador profundo, odiado por ex-amigos e por sua família. Enquanto ele tenta argumentar a natureza da revolução e da finalidade da CHEKA, ele lentamente vai enlouquecendo.

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.

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?

Cris e Peu, seu irmão mais velho, são deixados na beira de uma estrada pelos próprios pais. Os irmãos foram castigados por brigar constantemente durante uma viagem à praia. Após algumas horas, percebendo que os pais não retornaram, Peu parte em busca de um posto de gasolina. Cris permanece no local por um dia inteiro e, sem notícias dos pais ou do irmão, decide percorrer ela mesma o caminho de volta para casa.

An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.

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.

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.

This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s.