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  • Inspired by true events, ACLA is an unflinching exploration of social mores and disturbing abuses largely unfamiliar to American audiences. Set in Sicily in the 1930s this haunting motion picture chronicles a major turning point in the life of Acla, a feisty 12-year-old sold by his destitute parents to work in the underground sulfur mines in Floristella.

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  • Eight short films make up this sweet bit of nostalgia from Germany in the '50s by the acclaimed still photographer and cinematographer, Lothar Sauer.The first is The Bad Report Card (Das Schlechte Zeugnis) which is the story of an afternoon of two schoolboys who were failed and don't dare go home with their bad report cards.Played by the boys of the lower...

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    May 25, 2005, the last day of school in Beslan, Russia, celebrated with the Ceremony of the Last Bell. A graduating senior carries a new student who rings a bell for the last time. The school year started on September 1st and was to be no different than any other. Tragically, within 48 hours, those youthful delights would be dashed by death and destruction. 

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  • Focusing on the bleak life of eleven-year-old bad boy Polin, who's been abandoned by his family and sent to live in a state-run orphanage, it's also a moving portrait of the human spirit imprisoned by the chains of well-intentioned fools. Inside the harsh confines of the supposedly beneficial institution, Polin and his fellow inmates must deal with...

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  • CISKE THE RAT, starring Dutch singing sensation Danny De Munk, is without a doubt one of the most touching childhood sagas ever brought to film. Living in Amsterdam in 1934, eleven-year-old Ciske (nickname for Franciskus) is a troubled kid caught in the winds of the war between his separated parents. His father, a mostly absent merchant seaman, is just...

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  • Two best friends are forced into street hustling and ever-expanding life of crime when one impregnates the sister of the other. 

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  • Sex and politics collide in Eloy de la Iglesia’s harrowing, hard-hitting tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself passionately in love with the man he must betray.

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  • Set in the Italian port of Trieste in 1911, ERNESTO is the coming-of-age chronicle of 17-year-old Ernesto, a handsome office clerk who dreams of becoming a violinist. An unexpected tryst with a sensitive dock worker open the youth to feelings he has previously been afraid to confront.

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  • Lorenzo, a handsome first-year professor in an isolated Italian village, falls under the spell of his most beguiling pupil, a dark-haired, starry-eyed 12-year-old named Duilio. As Lorenzo's relationship with his heartless girlfriend deteriorates, he finds himself walking the fields with his loving student.

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  • Thirteen-year-old Michel is vacationing with his recently widowed mother and younger brother when trouble arrives in the form of a handsome engineer with romantic designs on Mom.

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  • A riveting journey through the dark underside of the Soviet working class and institutional life, FREEDOM IS PARADISE captures a boy’s fierce capacity to dream amidst the boldfaced cruelty of circumstance. This Grand Prize winner at the 1989 Montreal Film Festival addresses, with quiet eloquence, the sad irony of children dwelling on the margin.

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  • When Eric, an 11-year-old boy from Los Angeles, California, is not in school or busy doing his homework, he hangs out with his 14-year-old buddy Chris. They swim, tell jokes, eat and dance. Yes, dance. Well, at least Eric is the talented one here. The two boys end their day at the beach, where they do more swimming, chasing after one another and running...

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  • Fifteen-year-old Nico, played by cuddly, cute Romanian actor Nico Almasan, is on his own in sunny Honolulu where he soon gets himself into trouble with one of the local bullies. To the rescue comes James, a twenty-four-year-old surfer, played with laid-back charm by handsome newcomer David C. Naughton. What follows is a sweet, sometimes silly adventure...

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  • A young boy’s loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of LESSONS AT THE END OF SPRING. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime, a teenager’s trip to the movies ends in a nightmarish confrontation with local police.

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  • An early work of de la Iglesia, EL SACERDOTE tells the often shocking story of a troubled priest in a desperate battle for his own soul. Set in a strict Catholic parish house, the film takes a piercing look into the tortured souls of mortal men who have buried the most human desires in service to God.

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  • Directed by Jean Dellanoy from Roger Peyrefitte's controversial 1945 novel, THIS SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP is set in a Jesuit school for boys. The school bristles with sexual tension, and the youths are counseled daily to guard themselves against impure friendships. Sixteen-year-old George, a naive new arrival, is shocked to discover that the classmate who first...

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  • Their immune systems tragically damaged at birth, TOM AND LOLA are two beautiful children forever isolated in plastic bubbles. But neither cold urethane nor chillier hospital technicians can keep down the beguiling spirit of these indomitable siblings.

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  • In conflict with his father over a decision to pursue a bullfighting career, sixteen-year-old Miguel begins his study at La Escuela de Tauromaquia, Madrid’s famed school for matadors. Surrounded by his fellow students, Miguel will quickly learn that in the arena, one must be ready to face death "tu solo"... on your own.

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  • Haunting and hypnotic, VITO AND THE OTHERS is the groundbreaking film which drew international attention to the problem of neglected youth and street crime in poverty-stricken Naples.

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  • Set sail with a dozen sun bronzed boys on a field-trip through history in this fascinating documentary originally produced for French television. This home video version is culled from all thirteen episodes and features a real-life cast of young adventurers on board the sailing ship Karrek Van. The boys are students from an experimental school and the...

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  • A student strike at a Danish boys school is the backdrop of YOU ARE NOT ALONE, hailed by critics as one of the most lyrical and affirmative coming-of-age films ever made. Director Lasse Nielsen's leisurely paced tale explores the relationship between 15-year-old Bo (Anders Agenso) and Kim (Peter Bjerg), the younger son of the stern boarding school...

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  • Young Kheer Allah lives with his mother, father, two brothers and sister. Their "home" has no furniture and no modern appliances, except for an old television and radio sitting precariously atop a stack of used tires. There's no meat on this family's table. Home-baked pita bread is the staple in this beyond-poor household. School is out of the question...

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  • In the Garden of Eden, Adam partakes of the forbidden fruit because he cannot bear to live without Eve, his love. Cast out of paradise by a wrathful God, the pair looks to beautiful Lucifer to fulfill his promise and grant them the secret knowledge of the trees. So begins THE ANNUNICATION, Andras Jeles' stunning epic account of the dark history of...

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  • Only a few priests and interns remain in a secluded run-down boys religious boarding school in Northern Argentina in 1961. Arrives Father Martin, whose intentions are not clear. He takes an exceptional interest in a boy named Franz (Manuel Luka Figueiro), but to what purpose? From Director Ivan Noel.

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  • Mona picks up her first job tutoring two orphaned children (Angel Valentino Vinco & Ema Malena Alonso) living in a derelict house in the country. Her obsession with trying to educate these two nearly feral children blinds her to the fact they have other plans for her. Based on Henry James' book "The Turn of the Screw".

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  • Director's Cut! -- Brecha is a particularly vivid and realistic portrayal of the emotional rupture between a father recently released from jail and his 12-year-old son Jose (Jose Ramon Lafita), following a dark family tragedy that no one has strength enough to confront. Herself a victim of the same non-communication, the boy's grandmother tries her best...

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  • A secluded colony of child vampires come under attack from vengeful villagers in this darkly funny horror tale by Argentinean filmmaker Ivan Noel. A journalist Alicia visits a secluded orphanage where children suffer from an unknown skin disease. They must stay out of the sun and are only out at night. She soon learns that they are in fact not children,...

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  • Thirteen-year-old Pablo (Gonzalo Sánchez Salas) is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence and give him some advice on sex, love, and life in general. On a quiet country road just outside of the village, Pablo...

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  • The kidnapping and mutilation of three young children create violent ripples through a small community. "Ellos Volvieron" (The Returned) is an equally touching and nerve-wracking story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys, and one girl. Only after three days Lionel (Juan Ignacio Molina), Lucio (Lauro Veron), and Sabrina...

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  • Eight years after a cataclysm and disease ravaged the human race - leaving just one in every ten surviving - all social structures have crumbled like sand castles. Too few still live for anything to have been reconstructed. All remaining animals have been consumed and no sowing has yet been possible. It is Man at his most basic, destitute level. Two...

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  • In an explosive celebration of children's creativity, ¡Primaria! follows the lives of several students and their teachers in a peculiar, yet somewhat recognizable, primary school. When José Maria-more apt at lecturing on Fine Arts at University than controlling a group of primary kids-fills in his new post as an art teacher, chaos seems absolutely...

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  • In a future medieval world, after the collapse of our civilization, man has repeated all the same mistakes again and installed a new system of law based on false science and superstitious beliefs. Worst of all their deviances now, is anyone who dares to consume or even touch the sweet-tasting 'Chisa' flower. Once caught, they are permanently banished from...

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  • Director's Cut! -- A teenage boy, Gabriel, is dealing with the sudden and explicit suicide of his unstable mother, to whom he was symbiotically attached. One day she appears before him and promises that God will give her a new lease of life if he acts out 'good' deeds on earth. Starting with seemingly innocuous acts and progressing in both intensity and...

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