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For 17 years, from the age of about six or seven, Kathy Chu keeps a diary. It's a complete fiction, denying disappointments (when her older sister doesn't want to spend time with her, Kathy invents and records a happy encounter) and rejections (she's teased for being Asian, but she writes about what fun she had with friends). Her hopes to be a writer compound the irony of her journal's disconnection. In college and after graduation, one of her closest friends is Kirby, who is also Asian. She denies any romantic attraction, and when they do become lovers, it's her diary that brings a crisis to their relationship and to her identify. Kathy falls back to earth.
Mississippi One (1992)
A story about a father who kidnaps his daughter and which the director describes as a love story that ended badly.
Schwabinger Girls (1985)
Debauched parties with hot music and lots of shirtless, panty-less girls; it's all there in Munich. Everyone takes it pretty easy, only the somewhat shy Angie is shocked. She has other ideas about life and is waiting for the big love. Again and again her friends try to persuade her to join them and even when looking for a job she is only confronted with sex. First she is supposed to model for a painter - naked, of course, then she gets involved with a sex photographer and as a climax she ends up in a massage parlor. She takes flight and is totally frustrated - then she meets Charlie again, who had already helped her with a car breakdown. From now on, the events overturn...
Someone Saved My Life (NaN)
Set in the 1960s, junior high schooler Dean strikes up a friendship with the vibrant yet reckless Roy, in an effort to escape his mother’s controlling grasp. But when the boys’ friendship threatens Dean’s budding romance with Beth and his own well-being, Dean must find his own voice, or risk following Roy down an increasingly dangerous path.
Campo Grande (2015)
A wealthy middle-aged woman unexpectedly finds herself caring for two impoverished young siblings, in this subtle, touching and sincere study of class disparity from Brazilian filmmaker Sandra Kogut.
Girls Lost (2015)
Kim, Bella and Momo are three fourteen-year-old girls who discover a fantastic flower with magic qualities: by drinking its nectar they are transformed into boys and they enter a new world. At first they enjoy their newly found freedom, but soon Bella and Momo realize that there are downsides to it. Kim however gets seriously addicted…
The Revelation (1977)
The 50 year old house wife Ingrid is unsuccessful in her first job after the kids have grown up. her husband send her to a stay at a summer hotel, where she return to spirit and goes back home only to find him in bed with a lover.
The Girl in Tails (1926)
Katja is about to graduate, but she has nothing to wear for the graduation ball. Her father, the eccentric inventor Carl Axel Kock does not spend much of his income on Katja while her brother Curry gets everything he wants. So on the day of the ball, Katja simply dresses up in her brother’s brand new evening attire and attends the dance, smokes cigars, drinks brandy–and causes a scandal.
A Simple Life (2012)
After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
Lift (2001)
This feature takes us into the world of "boosters" or shoplifters where a charismatic, intelligent young female booster from a dysfunctional family, notably her mother and grandmother, engages in the illegal occupation of shoplifting. A non-stereotypical view of how problematic family relations fed her foray into a criminal profession.
The Widow (1955)
The only film from female director Park Nam Ok, the melodrama The Widow offers a different perspective of the female experience in postwar Korea, and a woman's struggle between duty and desire. Raising a daughter alone after the war, widow Shin is much indebted to her late husband's friend Seong Jin but resists his romantic advances. Instead, she falls for Taek, who is carrying on an affair with Seong Jin's jealous wife. Shin is willing to give up everything for Taek, but his heart changes again when his girlfriend returns.
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.
Moon and Cherry (2004)
When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naïve college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.
The Lankworm (2002)
Film about a couple of which the man is confronted for the umpteenth time with an initiative by his wife to make their sex life a little more exciting: a ribbed condom. He tells his daughter the condom is a sluikrups (a fake caterpillar). But the consequences of this white lie confront him with his sexual shortcomings.
Baseco Bakal Boys (2009)
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Rita Koeling (2002)
For the first time in his life timid Anton, an eleven-year-old pubescent, falls madly in love with one of his classmates, precocious Rita Koeling. But Anton shrinks from openly telling his tough friends about his romantic feelings.
The Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000)
Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his country manor for a holiday. While exploring the sprawling Greville Lodge he soon discovers that it has many secrets.
Lesson Learned (2024)
Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system.
