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Almanya, Welcome to Germany
Germany, 2011, 97 min.
Neatly structured into two interwoven time frames, this charming, colorfully styled comedy centers on multiple generations of a German-Turkish clan, and derives its touching, laugh-out-loud humor from cultural misunderstandings and the question of what constitutes national identity. Winner: Best Fil... more
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Bitter Seeds
India, 2011, 88 min.
Beautifully told and deeply disturbing, Micha Peled’s documentary explores the way farming with genetically modified seeds is having disastrous consequences in India. The third film in Peled’s “Globalization Trilogy” after China Blue and Store Wars.... more
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Black Bread
Spain, 2010, 108 min.
A return visit for this 2010 festival favorite, Spain’s 2011 Oscar® entry. Andreu, a ten-year-old boy, has to confront a world of adults nourished by lies, myths, wicked crimes and painful revelations. Note: contains a scene that may offend animal-lovers, though no animals were harmed in the shootin... more
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Breathing
Austria, 2011, 90 min.
A juvenile prisoner toils at day-release work that could help win him parole. That this employment happens to be in Vienna's morgue gives the film its highly individual flavor, while the morbid setting neatly coaxes catharsis from the impassive protagonist. ... more
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Come As You Are
Belgium, 2011, 115 min.
Three guys in their early twenties embark on a journey to Spain hoping to have their first sexual experiences. Nothing will stop them. Not even their disabilities…. A must-see comic drama from the director of The Over The Hill Band.... more
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Corpo celeste
France, 2011, 100 min.
Having returned to tradition-bound Reggio di Calabria after a decade in Switzerland, withdrawn 13-year-old Marta (Yle Vianello, perfect) finds her adolescent feelings of isolation enhanced by her strange surroundings. Rohrwacher’s naturalistic feature debut is emotionally honest and bracingly immedi... more
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David
USA, 2011, 80 min.
A charming coming of age tale promoting tolerance and cross-cultural understanding, David bridges one of the world's defining sociopolitical rifts when a young Muslim Brooklynite semi-accidentally passes as Jewish.... more
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Goodbye First Love
France, 2011, 110 min.
Exploring themes of loss, the passage of time, and emotional unrest, Goodbye First Love begins with a passionate romance between 15-year-old Camille and Sullivan, a free-spirited older boy. But eight years after he left her for Argentina, what remains of their love? ... more
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The Good Son
Finland, 2011, 88 min.
The destructive relationship between a profoundly narcissistic film star mother and her teenage son is at the center of Zaisa Bergroth’s striking combination of blackly comic showbiz satire and serious psychological drama.... more
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The Graveyard Keeper’s Daughter
Estonia, 2011, 100 min.
A child's gaze anchors this gentle, lyrical tale. Eight-year-old Lucia may qualify as a child at risk, with a largely absent father and chronically drunken mother, yet she fashions a satisfying existence from the cards dealt her. ... more
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Gypsy
Slovak Republic, 2011, 107 min.
The bruising life of a Roma teen takes on shades of Hamlet in this poignant and beautifully rendered humanist drama, spliced with moments of magical realism. Winner: Special Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary Film Festival.... more
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The House
Slovak Republic, 2011, 97 min.
Contemporary Eastern Europe’s divisions – between generations, genders, economic strata, city and country – are given incisive treatment in this affecting family drama about an ambitious teen, her disowned elder sister and their dour, controlling father.... more
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How Big is Your Love
Algeria, 2011, 98 min.
A heartwarming examination of childhood and love in modern Algiers. With his parents breaking up, 8-year-old Adel is sent to live with his grandparents. Soon it’s like he’s lived there forever, he’s so intimately wrapped up in their lives.... more
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The Kid with a Bike
Belgium, 2011, 87 min.
Fate drops an angry 11-year-old in the path of a kind-hearted hairdresser. The boy’s intensity drives the Dardennes’ Cannes prize-winning film, but the woman’s tenderness and compassion create rare moments of grace in this heartbreaking tale of abandonment.... more
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Lena
Netherlands, 2011, 119 min.
This emotionally engaging coming-of-age tale features one of the most complex and endearing teen heroines of recent years. Christophe van Rompaey (Moscow, Belgium) directs with tenderness and empathy.... more
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Lucky
South Africa, 2011, 100 min.
Although they do not speak the same language, a South African AIDS orphan learns about life and love through an unlikely bond with an elderly Indian lady with a pathological fear of Africans.... more
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Montevideo - Taste of a Dream
Serbia, 2010, 140 min.
Inspired by real events, this period drama centers on rival Belgrade soccer players, part of a scrappy national team at the inaugural World Cup in Uruguay in 1930. With locker room tensions, bedroom dalliances, boardroom strategizing and plenty of well-staged game action.... more
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My Australia
Israel, 2011, 100 min.
In the mid-1960s, two young Polish brothers involved in an anti-Semitic crime receive a rude awakening when they learn that they are actually Jewish and their mother is moving them to Israel (or “Australia”, as she tells the younger sibling).... more
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North Sea Texas
Belgium, 2011, 96 min.
A lonely gay adolescent suffers the pangs of unrequited love in this poignantly rendered coming-of-ager that delicately capture the ecstasy of first love and the heartache of frustrated desire. Winner: Alice in the City Award, Rome Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award and Best Feature Debut, Montreal Film... more
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Off White Lies
Israel, 2011, 86 min.
A poignant comedy about a teenager who returns to Israel to get to know her eccentric father, who is currently “between apartments.” As war in Lebanon begins, the father proposes a creative plan to put a roof over their heads.... more
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Sea Shadow
United Arab Emirates, 2011, 98 min.
Set in a small seaside town in the Emirates, this gentle coming-of-age story follows two teenagers on the road to adulthood. Bound by tradition and deeply rooted values, Mansoor and his pretty cousin Kaltham must find the courage to forge their own paths.... more
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Sons of Norway
Norway, 2011, 80 min.
Is it possible to rebel when your free spirit father supports you unconditionally? This bittersweet coming-of-age tale, well directed by Jens Lien (The Bothersome Man), is the funniest, most poignant Scandinavian dramedy since My Life As A Dog.... more
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Summer Games
Switzerland, 2011, 101 min.
A beach holiday in Tuscany draws families and their children together. The youngsters join into a little gang and the two eldest find themselves attracted to each. As time goes on their childish games take on a more adult tone…... more
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Tilt
Bulgaria, 2011, 97 min.
A Romeo and Juliet style love story set against the backdrop of the huge political and social changes of the late 80s and early 90s, Tilt takes a critical look at Bulgaria’s post-revolution changes.... more
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Turn Me On, Dammit!
Norway, 2011, 76 min.
This debut feature tells a story that is rarely if ever explored in films: the unbridled sexual appetite of a teenage girl.Certainly this subject has never been approached in such a candid and wryly comic way. Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Tribeca Film Festival and Best Debut Film at th... more
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
United Kingdom, 2011, 112 min.
Two years after her teenage son commits a horrific crime, Eva (Tilda Swinton) tries to come to terms with her marriage, career, and parenthood. A grippingly cinematic, searingly honest film from the director of Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar.... more
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