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Liebeskind / Love Child. 2005.

Liebeskind / Love Child. 2005.

After five years of leaving her and her mother Barbara to work as a doctor abroad, 17-year-old Alma sees her father Fred at a subway station in Berlin. She finds his job, makes contact with him, and starts to spend time with him. Soon the feelings of...

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Wrony / The Crows. 1994.

Wrony / The Crows. 1994.

PL. Film Doroty Kędzierzawskiej traktuje przede wszystkim o potrzebie miłości. Bohaterkami są dwie fascynujące, małe dziewczynki. Kędzierzawska często pracująca z dziećmi tak o tym mówi: "Myślę, że trudniej porozumiewać się z dorosłymi, którzy udają,...

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L'enfance nue / Naked Childhood. 1968.

L'enfance nue / Naked Childhood. 1968.

A 10-year-old boy feels unwanted when his mother places him in a home for wayward children. He goes to a foster home where a family of workers finds him to be too much for them. When the unruly child discovers the family plans to give up on him, he drowns...

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Ditte menneskebarn / Ditte, Child of Man. 1946.

Ditte menneskebarn / Ditte, Child of Man. 1946.

DK. Ditte (Tove Maës) fødes udenfor ægteskabet, og forlades af moderen Sørine (Karen Lykkehus). Det bliver bedsteforældrene Maren (Karen Poulsen) og Søren Mand (Rasmus Ottesen) der må tage sig af Dittes opdragelse. Efter Søren er død bliver Ditte den...

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Magia nuda / Mondo Magic. 1975.

Magia nuda / Mondo Magic. 1975.

This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life. The Mundari tribe in Africa herd cattle but do not slaughter them for meat. They make use of the cattle urine as an insect repellent and...

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Aksharaya / A Letter of Fire. 2005.

Aksharaya / A Letter of Fire. 2005.

A 12-year old boy (Isham Samzudeen) is accused of the murder of one Courtseen. His father was a retired judge (Ravindra Randeniya) and his mother (Piyumi Samaraweera) was also a famous magistrate. The movie depicted a controversial scene where child and...

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Dorsvloer vol confetti. 2014.

Dorsvloer vol confetti. 2014.

1. To be Chosen, that is the most important life goal in the strict-religious environment of Katelijne. For her though, reading and stories are much more important. Is she thus risking her "Grace period"? 2. Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young...

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Hong ying tao / Red Cherry. 1995.

Hong ying tao / Red Cherry. 1995.

It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the International School. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the Long March; Chuchu had seen her father executed by Chiang Kai-shek's...

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Boys and girls alone. 2009.

Boys and girls alone. 2009.

Ten boys and ten girls, aged between eight and eleven, are given the chance to experience life without adults for two weeks. An ambitious four-part documentary series sees ten boys and ten girls aged between eight and eleven being given the chance to...

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A Casa / The House. 1997.

A Casa / The House. 1997.

The House was reviewed a little less favorably than Bartas' earlier films (regular cinemagoers having given up long ago), but personally I found it his most beautiful film yet. Bartas does tend to repeat himself, it's true. Reviewers love his grim shadowscapes,...

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Jack. 2014.

Jack. 2014.

DE. Jack ist zehn Jahre alt und noch nicht lange im Heim. Es ist Sommer. Die Vorfreude auf die Ferien ist gross. Doch am letzten Schultag wird er nicht abgeholt. Seine Mutter Sanna (26) ruft an und vertrostet ihn. Jack bleibt mit Danilo und den Erziehern...

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Tumman veden päällä / Above Dark Waters. 2013.

Tumman veden päällä / Above Dark Waters. 2013.

A small boy opens his eyes in the morning, astonished by the sunlight. The family life is as usual, almost idyllic. But the boy starts to hear noises during the nights; arguments and crying. The father disappears; the mother takes the kids to the grandparents’...

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Lovely Rita. 2001.

Lovely Rita. 2001.

Lovely Rita is not lovely at all. She is a sulky, deceitful, calculating teenager bent on seducing the local bus driver. She is very much an outsider at school and is the source of many arguments at home. In the title role Barbara Osika gives a good rendition...

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Briefgeheim / Secret Letter. 2010.

Briefgeheim / Secret Letter. 2010.

Secret Letter tells about 11-year old Eva, who's fed up with all the tensions at home. In order to make her parents clear how she feels about this, she runs away from home. She hides in the attic of her best friend's place, Jackie en Thomas. When she...

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Y qué patatín y qué patatán. 1971.

Y qué patatín y qué patatán. 1971.

ES. Y que patatín... y que patatán es una película filmada en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Mario Sabato según su propio guion escrito en colaboración con el guion de Mario Mactas que se estrenó el 30 de septiembre de 1971 y que tuvo como protagonistas...

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Mixed Company. 1974.

Mixed Company. 1974.

Mixed Company is a 1974 comedy-drama film directed by Melville Shavelson and written by Shavelson and Mort Lachman. It stars Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna, Tom Bosley, Lisa Gerritsen, Dorothy Shay, Ruth McDevitt and Haywood Nelson. Kathy Morrison (Harris),...

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Ein Zimmer mit Ausblick. 1978. Episodes 1-7.

Ein Zimmer mit Ausblick. 1978. Episodes 1-7.

Ein Zimmer mit Ausblick ist eine aus sieben Episoden bestehende Fernsehserie der DEFA aus dem Jahr 1978. Die Serie erzählt das Leben von Jette, die als Waisenkind bei ihrer Großmutter, Frau König, lebt. Da Jette nicht weiß, dass sie ein Waisenkind ist,...

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Novemberkatzen. 1986.

Novemberkatzen. 1986.

"Novemberkatzen" - so werden die jungen und schwachen Kätzchen genannt, die erst im Herbst zur Welt kommen und die es nach landläufiger Meinung sehr schwer haben. Auch die elfjährige Ilse, die Jüngste in der Familie, merkt schon früh, daß das Leben für...

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Le meraviglie. 2014.

Le meraviglie. 2014.

Gelsomina's family functions according to very particular rules. First of all, Gelsomina, at twelve years of age, practically runs the family. Her three younger sisters obey her and work under her watchful eye. But the outside world mustn't know anything...

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Leto s Katkou / Summer with Kate. 1975.

Leto s Katkou / Summer with Kate. 1975.

Desaťročná Katka cestuje z Bratislavy na prázdniny. Ide na dedinu ku svojej tete, ktorá ju ale nečaká, pretože ju náhle museli odviezť do nemocnice. Čo teraz? Domov sa vrátiť nemôže, pretože mamička odišla za oteckom do zahraničia. Katky sa ujíma suseda...

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Primaria! 2010.

Primaria! 2010.

In this explosive celebration of children's creativity, PRIMARY! Follows the lives of students and their teachers in a peculiar yet somewhat recognizable primary school. When Jose Maria, more apt at lecturing Fine Arts at University than controlling a...

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