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Armin
Croatia, 2007, 82 min.
An intimate, poignant drama about a small-town father and son trying to maintain their dignity in the big city and in the face of unexpected opportunities.... more
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The Art of Crying
Denmark, 2006, 105 min.
A chilling tale of domestic abuse told with black humor and acute understanding. Young Allan will do anything he can to keep his family together. His innocence is his best protection against a father who misbehaves to ensure that he gets what he wants, however forbidden his desires.... more
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Chaotic Ana
Spain, 2007, 116 min.
Nubile young Ana takes a journey of personal transformation through art, love and sex. Finding that she has lived many past lives, she travels back through hypnosis and finds the horrific links to the chaos in her present day existence.... more
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Denias, Singing on the Cloud
Indonesia, 2006, 110 min.
John De Rantau’s heartfelt drama features stunning vistas from a place rarely captured on film—West Papua, Indonesia—while telling the story of a young lad named Denias, whose burning desire is to go to school even thought it is many days’ travel away.... more
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Eight Twenty Eight
Israel, 2007, 60 min.
A personal and poetic look at changes in kibbutz life by a filmmaker trying to decide whether he should remain a member.... more
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The Home Songs Stories
Australia, 2007, 103 min.
1970s Singapore nightclub singer and single mom Rose (Joan Chen, outstanding), drags her two young children off to suburban Melbourne with a new ‘daddy’ following a surprise marriage proposal. But will this new home prove fertile ground for such an exotic bloom?... more
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Hounds
Germany, 2007, 86 min.
His mother having run off, 16-year old Lars feels even more isolated when he discovers his father is having an affair. But with the entrance of a young mute girl, it appears that his luck is about to change. A delicate blend of coming-of-age story and dysfunctional family comedy.... more
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Iska's Journey
Hungary, 2007, 93 min.
A young girl, all but abandoned by her parents, exists by scavenging through the streets of a Carpathian mining town. She is placed in an orphanage but, even in the worst of situations, her fighting spirit proves resilient. This film’s vitality and matter-of-fact integrity capture the unmistakable r... more
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Mukhsin
Malaysia, 2006, 96 min.
Funny and affectionate, this utterly charming film portrays the tender awkwardness of childhood friendship growing into first love during an idyllic summer in a Malay village. Winner of two prizes at the Berlin Film Festival.... more
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My Brother is an Only Child
Italy, 2007, 108 min.
Two brothers fights for life, love and politics on the background of Otaly in the late 60’s, where the
Dream of wealth is slowly fading away and the uncertanties about the future are getting stronger.... more
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Off-side
Netherlands, 2006, 87 min.
This heartwarming, but frank and edgy, coming-of-age tale from the Netherlands focuses on a twelve-year-old misfit and his desire to forge a competitive soccer team, a goal fraught with personal hurdles.... more
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Persepolis
France, 2007, 95 min.
A darkly humorous animation based on Marjane Satrapi’s experiences as a spirited young Muslim woman coming of age—from mischievous schoolgirl to rebellious teenager and beyond—against the turbulent background of Iran’s recent past.... more
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Red Like the Sky
Italy, 2006, 96 min.
Reminiscent of such classic films about childhood as Cinema Paradiso, this Italian gem tells the true story of Mirco Mencacci, one of the most prominent sound engineers in Italian cinema, who as a playful and curious 10-year-old boy was robbed of his eyesight in an accident, and subsequently ... more
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Romulus, My Father
Australia, 2007, 103 min.
1950s Australia: A young boy is both frightened by and consumed with love for his less than perfect parents in this starkly compelling drama of an embattled migrant family.... more
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The Silly Age
Cuba, 2006, 90 min.
A rare commercial film from Cuba, this colorful and bittersweet coming of age drama is set in 1958, just prior to the Castro revolution. Samuel is a ten-year-old boy who attempts to navigate this changing social and emotional climate.... more
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Small Secrets
Luxembourg, 2006, 110 min.
A delightful coming-of-age story set in small town Luxembourg in 1962 about a sensitive 12-year-old boy who is struggling with puberty and a difficult family life within a society that is still recovering from the effects of the former Nazi occupation.... more
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Unspoken Passion
Philippines, 2007, 109 min.
Three friends….two young men and a girl…a bizarre love triangle. An almost perfect friendship except for the choices they have to make when childhood love matures and risks to tear them apart. This different love will reveal that sometimes the most important gift is knowing when to let go.... more
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Warden of the Dead
Bulgaria, 2006, 105 min.
In this metaphorical drama, a nameless orphan known as “the boy,” lives and works in a cemetery. Bringing people together or helping them die, the boy has only one aim—to make them happy.
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Brazil, 2006, 110 min.
With Brazil’s soccer team competing for its third World Cup, 12-year old Mauro’s political activist parents take a ‘vacation’, leaving him to flounder in the alien world of his upright Yiddish grandfather in this charming, wide-eyed coming-of-age saga.... more
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