Ребёнку нужна любовь (1955)

Shy working class 15 year-old Antoine, bored with life and school, breaks a leg and has young higher class Olivia help him with his studies. As he silently falls in love with her, he also falls in love with books and his will to become a writer.

A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...

Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. One day, in between wandering the city streets, and going to the movies, he makes the acquaintance of a female student.

Найроби, Кения. 14-летний Абила живет с родителями в Кибере, одной из самых больших трущоб в Восточной Африке. Однажды утром подросток обнаруживает своего отца, больного и безумного. Кто-то украл его душу, бормочет отец, съежившись в углу. Aбила потрясен и сбит с толку, но хочет помочь отцу и отправляется на поиски подходящего лечения. Вместе со своим другом Шику, который того же возраста что и он, узнает, что его отец проиграл свою душу в компании религиозной женщины. Подросток не хочет верить этому и отправляется на поиски ведьмы. Когда он наконец находит ее в самом темном углу гетто, она дает ему возможность пройти семь испытаний, чтобы спасти потерянную душу отца. Абила предпринимает опасную поездку, которая проводит его прямо через маленький мир его родного города.

In Crossbow the spoiler is right in front of you, there in the title. A crossbow is an anachronistic device and does not, at least in my mind, lend itself well to analogy or metaphor. In spite, or, more accurately, precisely because this ominous title hangs over the very start of viewing, the short film remarkably sustains a growing dread throughout its languid narration and slow-moving, though arresting visuals; maximizing its force not through the promise of surprise but through the inevitability of its conclusion.

Действие картины разворачивается на неведомом острове, где местные жители живут идиллической жизнью. В то время как все мужчины деревни находятся в море, с гор спускается группа чужаков (пастухов), и юный пастушок пленяется красотой местной девушки. Не зная, как привлечь её внимание, он приносит ей свою добычу — мёртвого пеликана. Девушка заинтригована, но не уверена в чувствах мальчика. Случайно дети становятся свидетелями запретных любовных игр более старшей пары. Тем временем и за юными героями наблюдает мальчик постарше, грубо вмешиваясь в ход событий, что приводит к драматической развязке.

The suffocating love between between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted and neglected southern Dutch province of Limburg.

The town of Derry has a secret, but no one told the new kid. It's gonna be a long night.

“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.

Банда идёт на цирковое представление, чтобы навестить дядю Дики и Спанки, ошибочно полагая, что он «Дикий человек из Борнео».

A young Jewish boy travels europe in search of the grave of his Great Grandfather who was killed by the Nazis in the War.

Великая Отечественная война… Четверо советских подростков не стали ждать победного ее завершения, а, прослышав о том, что на Соловецких островах открылась школа юнг, отправились туда. Эта школа и стала для ребят настоящей школой взросления, школой жизни…

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.

This picture shows an old gentleman seated at his shaving table. The razor is evidently giving him a great deal of trouble...

Perhaps the most ebullient “musical” you’ll see this year, Marc-Henri Wajnberg’s singular documentary/fiction hybrid follows a group of street children in the Congolese capital.

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.

Главный герой фильма, некогда бывший полковником в Аргентине, ныне богатый эмигрант, живущий в Париже с любимой, но бесплодной женой. Чтобы как-то компенсировать это, он кормит и одевает беспризорных детей, воспитывая их в своём особняке как своих собственных. Но однажды в приют полковника приводят весьма привлекательную девушку, которая становится предметом всеобщих романтических воздыханий.

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.

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.

In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up in an inescapable spiral of increasingly self-destructive and deadly violence.