L'albero delle pere / Shooting the Moon. 1998.

 Shooting the Moon (Italian: L'albero delle pere) is a 1998 Italian drama film directed by Francesca Archibugi. It entered the competition at the 59th Venice International Film Festival, in which Niccolò Senni won the Marcello Mastroianni Award.
Fourteen-year-old Siddharta lives in Rome with his mother, Silvia - an affectionate, rambling, though shifty woman. She does not work. She lives by her wits, her friendships, her relationships. She's separated from Siddharta's father, Massimo, who does his best to help them. With Roberto she has a five-year-old daughter, Domitilla, who lives with her own father, from whom Silvia is also estranged. The two siblings love each other very much. Domitilla moves in for the Christmas holidays, and, one day while rummaging among her mother's trousse, gets hurt by a syringe. Emotional turmoil ensues. Siddharta has to live on in spite of his parents' mis-doings. He sends Domitilla to do HIV, HBV and HCV tests without their parents' knowledge. Hence, he has to use his own name. That causes unexpected trouble.
Director:  Francesca Archibugi.
Cast: Valeria Golino, Niccolò Senni, Francesca Di Giovanni, Sergio Rubini, Stefano Dionisi, Corrado Invernizzi, Chiara Noschese, Victor Cavallo, Maria Consagra, Giuseppe Del Bono, Serena Scapagnini.
Italy, 1998.
Language: Italian.
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I'm the Same, I'm an Other / Deep in a Dream of You. 2013. HD.

A man in his thirties is on the run with a young girl. As they take a ferry to the UK, traces of a common past come to light - a past filled with loss and sorrow. Fleeing in secret, they end up hiding in a small apartment on the seaside, where they live day-to-day, exploring each other’s emotional territories. Mourning and grief will bind them, but is this alliance of dependence appropriate for them and for the outside world?
Director: Caroline Strubbe.
Cast: Kimke Desart, Zoltán Miklós Hajdu, Mark Hanney.
Belgium, 2013.
Language: English, Dutch, Hungarian.
1280x720 HD
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Sixten / Dancing Feet. 1994.

 SE. Sixten är en svensk dramafilm från 1994 i regi av Catti Edfeldt.
13-årige Sixten bor med sin ensamstående och överbeskyddande pappa som arbetar som busschaufför på nätterna. Tillsammans med Jonte tar Sixten fram en plan att få pappan på andra tankar, kanske behöver han en riktig kvinna.
Filmen premiärvisades 16 september 1994. Den filmades av Rolf Lindström och bygger på Ulf Starks roman Sixten som utgavs 1987. I samband med filmens premiär återutgavs boken i omskriven form. I amerikanska Variety oroade man sig för att den skulle komma att barnförbjudas på grund av det inklippta samlagsavsnittet från filmen Ur kärlekens språk.
EN. Sixten lives with his divorced father. His mother lives in Copenhagen and never visits them. In order to help his father to find a new wife, Sixten answers lonely-heart ads in the papers which leads to some unexpected meetings with strange women. At the same time Sixten discovers his own sexuality and has a summer romance with a girl at school. Comedy and drama on the pains of growing up.
Director: Catti Edfeldt.
Cast: Peter Viitanen, Hans Henriksson, Jonas Magnusson, Marie Thulin, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Kalle Stridbeck, Erik Lagerström, Magnus Nilsson, Anna-Lena Brundin.
Sweden, 1994.
Language: Swedish.
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Das feuerrote Spielmobil. 1972. Episodes 11, 12.

DE. Das feuerrote Spielmobil war eine vom 21. April 1972 bis 12. Juli 1981 ausgestrahlte Kinder-Fernsehserie für Kinder ab dem Vorschulalter. Insgesamt wurden 184 Folgen der vom Bayerischen Rundfunk produzierten Serie im Nachmittagsprogramm der ARD gesendet.

EN. Das feuerrote Spielmobil was a German television children's television series, broadcast from April 21, 1972 to July 12, 1981. A total of 184 episodes of the series produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) were broadcast in the afternoon program of ARD. The concept of the series was developed and produced from 1969 as a successor of the children's series "Spielschule" and shot in Munich, because the BR managers considered, that the social situation in Germany was not correctly represented by Sesamstraße and therefore needed a replacement program.

In the show a red minibus, equipped as a camera car, drove across the country and showed encounters with people and their stories.

At the beginning of the series the Spielmobil was an Opel Blitz. The aim of the series was to stimulate the imagination of the audience and to teach social interaction. In the first five episodes the two dolls Maxifant and Minifant played in the series, which then got their own series, because the production partners separated. Instead, the puppets Biff and Wuff (designed by Jan Gulbransson) and the animated character Wummi were used.

Episode List.

11. Wo ist der Elefant?

12. Nicki sucht einen Vater.

Directors: Peter Emmer, Jochen Richter.

Cast: Peter Kern, Philipp Sonntag, Uwe Falkenbach, Erich Schleyer, Josef Schwarz, Jörg Hube, Anja Franke, Michael Habeck, Frithjof Vierock, Marion Kracht.

West Germany, 1972.

Language: German.

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Fugitivas / Fugitives. 2000.

 Born in a poor neighborhood, Tony hides hides behind the image of a tough woman. She has a boyfriend, Juanjo, and two pals, a strange couple formed by Maxi, who is obsessed with martial arts, and moco, a terminal junkie. They all decide to hold up a Lottery Administration in Madrid. But Juanjo has another plan: he's going to betray his two friends and escape with Tony and the money. They start their runaway to the South with the excuse of taking Laura, Juanjo's seven year old niece, to see her father, a flamenco singer. But at the beginning of the trip, with Maxi, Moco and the police on their tail, Tony is betrayed by her boyfriend who disappears with the money, abandoning her and Laura in a dismal road side restaurant. With their pursuers close behind them, Tony and Laura are forced to keep running. In the course of their journey, the initial distrust between them will turn into a deep friendship.
Director: Miguel Hermoso.
Cast: Laia Marull, Beatriz Coronel, Juan Diego, María Galiana, Miguel Hermoso Arnao, Roberto Cairo, Jesús Olmedo, Antonio Dechent, Santiago Ramos.
Spain, 2000.
Language: Spanish.
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El seductor / The Seductor. 1995.

ES. Cosme, un chico de quince años, vive con sus padres y su hermana en un chalet adosado. La monotonía de su vida cambia cuando se enamora de su vecina Merche, una hermosa mujer que tiene casi veinte años más que él.
EN. Cosme, a 15-year-old boy, sets his sights and his libido on his new neighbor, Merche. After giving her a lift on his moped, and getting a glimpse of her underwear, he begins to look for excuses to wander next door. He manufactures illnesses to stay home from school and uses his free time to ogle her while she sunbathes outside. His efforts to sustain a relationship that leads to the bedroom are hampered by his amusing family, sabotaged by the maid, and jealously noted by his high school girlfriend.
Director: José Luis García Sánchez.
Cast: María Barranco, Antonio Hortelano, Santiago Ramos, Kiti Mánver, Enrique San Francisco, Alicia Bogo, Luis Perezagua, María Galiana, Francis Lorenzo     Francis Lorenzo, Arturo Solana.
Spain, 1995.
Language: Spanish.

Subtitles: English.
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水の花 / Mizu no hana / Water Flower. 2005.

JP. 自分を捨て出て行った母と、父親とは別の男との間に生まれた妹と偶然出会い、激しく揺れ動く思春期の少女の痛みを繊細に描き出している。
EN. Minako is still at school. Whe she was a little girl, her mother ran off with another man. Now Minako lives with her father, who has remarried, and her younger half-sister, Yu, who dreams of one day becoming a ballet dancer. on a whim, Minako takes Yu to a remote house by the sea that belonged to her grandparents, who have recently died. The more time Minako spends at the hideaway, playing and looking after her little half-sister, the more she becomes aware of her own situation. As she plays, her mind drifts back to memories of her own, happy childhood. Although now at an age where she feels more distanced from her father, the resentment she bears her mother for having deserted her and her father, remains unbroken.
Director: Yusuke Kinoshita.
Cast: Azusa Hibino, Asuka Kurosawa, Tomi Nakaho, Himawari Ono, Minami Orimoto, Tetsushi Tanaka, Saki Terashima, Takehito Terui, Kanji Tsuda.
Japan, 2005.
Language: Japanese.
Subtitles: English.
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Càlamo / Calamus. 1976.

 IT. Calamo è un film italiano del 1976 diretto da Massimo Pirri e interpretato da Lino Capolicchio.
Riccardo, appartenente a una famiglia altoborghese della Puglia, studia in un collegio svizzero tenuto da religiosi. Ha una relazione incompleta con la sorellastra Stefania, che un giorno gli annuncia il suo fidanzamento e il prossimo matrimonio. Riccardo, portandosi la tonaca appresso, cerca disperatamente di conquistare l'ormai riluttante sorellastra.
EN. Riccardo, belonging to an upper-middle class family from Puglia, studies religion in a Swiss boarding school. He has an incomplete relationship with his half-sister Stefania, who one day announces his engagement and the next marriage. Riccardo, wearing his cassock below, desperately tries to conquer the now reluctant half-sister.
Director: Massimo Pirri.
Cast: Lino Capolicchio, Valeria Moriconi, Paola Montenero, Raffaele Curi, Lorenzo Piani, Aldo Reggiani, Paola Senatore, Dino Arixi, Barbara Herrera.
Italy, 1976.
Language: Italian.
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Anthology of short films. Part 96. HD.

 The new issue of Anthology of short films number ninety six is ready for viewing. This time there are 7 minifilms here, including a rare and forgotten film from Kyrgyzstan. They are all in high definition.
1. Provence. 2019. HD.
During their annual summer vacation, eleven-year-old Camille and her older brother Tuur explore their new camping destination in Provence. When they meet two Dutch girls, Camille's admiration for her big brother turns into a dragging jealousy. Budding sexuality disrupts the carefree vacation.
Director: Kato De Boeck.
Cast: Liame De Paep, Pelle Adriaenssens, Otis Domen, Talitha de Boer, Jente Van Den Brenk.
Belgium, 2019.
language: Dutch.
Subtitles: English, Dutch, Russian.
1280x720 HD
2. The end of summer. 2016. HD.
A girl navigates young love when a boy asks her about romance in this coming of age story.
Director: Ha Hee-jin.
Cast: Lee Ye-won, Lee Seung-yeon, Park Jun-hyun.
South Korea, 2016.
Language: Korean.
Subtitles: English.
1920x1080 HD
3. Чопо бала / Çopo bala. 1994. HD.
Based on the story of Akmurat Shirov.
The eccentric Ishenkul - a vagabond, a homeless person who lives in a hut, tells the boy that clay is born, lives and dies, and that people are made of clay. Thanks to his reasoning, the boy discovers the origin of man and the magic of the art of the potter and his craft.
Director: Erkin Ryspaev.
Cast: B. Zhakypov, B. Seidakhmatov, T. Chekilov.
Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzfilm, 1994.
Language: Kyrgyz.
1280x720 HD
4. Hoor. 2008. HD.
The short story of three young lads paying a visit to the local prostitute in order to lose their virginity. The prostitute, Desire sizes them up, takes their money and one by one you are led to believe she gives them what they have paid for. Only with the last boy, Ciaran, clearly the youngest and most nervous, yet sweetest of the boys, do we see what Desire is really up to.
Directors: John Kennedy, Ruairí O'Brien.
Cast: Cian Donaille, Craig Connolly, Fionn O'Shea, Floriana Mancuso.
Ireland, 2008.
Language: None.
1920x1080 HD
5. The Big Crunch. 2016. HD.
A science fiction, off-beat comedy about a boy who has an existential crisis about his place in the world after learning that the universe will one day collapse in an epic big crunch.
Director: Dusty Mancinelli.
Cast: Peter DaCunha, Jennifer Robertson, Richard Waugh.
Canada, 2016.
Language: English.
1920x1080 HD
6. Hide. 2017. HD.
This is the story of Donna, just a child and not wise to the ways of the world. She finds herself trapped in a house with her mother's lover and must endure his sadistic personality. Little does she know, he has plans for her believing she was his wife in a past wife. John is just waiting for Donna to become a young woman. Until she does he's going to toughen her up with unthinkable actions. Inspired by a real events.
Directors: Ranelle Golden, John Kouromihelakis.
Cast: Lisa Donini, Hunter Hughes, Ashlyn Jade Lopez.
USA, 2017.
Language: English.
1280x720 HD
7. Komm und spiel / Come and Play. 2013. HD.
Berlin. Grisha, a Russian-German boy, fools around with a toy-gun. The longer he plays, the further he is thrust into an altered reality. The boundaries between the present and the past start to blur. Images from a bygone Berlin appear; streets and buildings still carry the memories of war. Suddenly, he is caught in a nightmare of another lifetime.
Director: Daria Belova.
Cast: Alexander Josef Shtol, Maria Zharkova, Julia Gorr, Roman Sdobnyakov.
Germany, 2013.
Language: Russian, German.
1280x720 HD
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Skavabölen pojat / Last Cowboy Standing. 2009.

In 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can't lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present. If he doesn't find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated and the curse will live on. Dad is coming home and the blood oath is about to be broken.

Director: Zaida Bergroth.

Cast: Ilmari Järvenpää, Onni Tommila, Lauri Tilkanen, Iiro Panula, Leea Klemola, Martti Suosalo, Sulevi Peltola, Elina Knihtilä, Tommi Korpela, Saara Kotkaniemi.

Finland, Germany, 2009.

Language: Finnish.

Subtitles: English.

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Nos plus belles vacances / Our Most Beautiful Holidays. 1996. 12 Episodes.

 FR. Nos plus belles vacances est une série télévisée française en 14 épisodes de 20 minutes, produite en 1996 et diffusée sur France 3, dans l'émission Les Minikeums du 30 juin 1997 au 16 juillet 1997.
Cette série met en scène un groupe d’enfants âgés de huit à treize ans en colonie dans un camp de vacances situé dans une abbaye durant l'été.
Dans le premier épisode, Bruno, le moniteur de la colonie, doit partir d'urgence à cause de problèmes familiaux et Léo, un des enfants du groupe, s’arrange pour qu'il n'y ait pas de remplaçant, et ils se retrouvent ainsi seuls à l'abbaye.
Les enfants se retrouvent chaque jour dans une grotte située derrière l'abbaye et échangent leur fameux : « Je jure de garder le secret de l'abbaye, de ne dire à personne que Bruno est parti, que je sois englouti si j'ai menti, on est ici pour s'amuser, rigoler, et que tous ensemble réunis, on passe les plus belles vacances de notre vie ! ».
Quel enfant n'a pas rêvé d'un monde sans adultes, sans autorité ni contraintes ? Une utopie qui va ainsi devenir réalité pour ce groupe d'enfants, le temps d'un camp d'été. Ils sont bien décidés à mettre tous les moyens en œuvre pour que personne ne vienne troubler leurs vacances ! Mais passée l'ivresse de la liberté, il leur faut affronter la dure réalité, et apprendre les gestes de la vie : se nourrir, protéger les plus petits, affronter les dangers... et, déjà, maîtriser les luttes de pouvoirs internes. Les enfants vont aussi, au cours de leurs deux mois de vacances, vivre de nombreuses aventures toutes plus passionnantes les unes que les autres.
EN. A group of children are left alone at a summer camp in an abbey when the person who is responsible for monitoring them has to leave urgently because of family problems.
Episode List.
1. Le Départ de Bruno
2. La Campagne
3. L'Arrivée d'Antoine
4. L'Enquête
5. Pour ou contre
6. Pierre et le chien
7. Les Anglais en vacances
8. Profit personnel
9. L'Anniversaire de Sophie
10. Le Piégeur piégé
11. L'Équimobile
12. Le Vol
Director: Bernard Dumont.
Cast: Cristina Barget, Dominique Jacson, Jan Vancoillie, David Babin, Adeline Bodo, Julie Boulanger, Elise Tayar, Cédric Frouin.
France, 1996.
Language: French.
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Anthology of short films. Part 95.

 Fresh issue of Anthology of Short Films number ninety-five is ready for viewing. This time in the collection there are 6 mini-films including the old rare Danish documentary on school education.
1. Paul et Virginie. 2014. HD.
Paul lives alone with his mother Virginie. Weakened by disease, she is unable to go about their daily life anymore. Paul, driven by the unbreakable bond of love that exists between him and his mother, tries to take matters into his own hands.
Director: Paul Cartron.
Cast: Igor van Dessel, Edith Van Malder, Laurence Warin.
Belgium, 2014.
Language: French.
Subtitles: English.
1280x720 HD
2. L'enclume. 2010. HD.
Once upon a time, in the evening of his Birthday, a little boy got from his parents a strange gift: an Anvil from which he would never separate. An uncomfortable load to carry, which will make his life particularly troubled, preventing him from doing what he wants, and even from approaching the girl he loves. But we are in a fairytale...And in fairy tales, everybody get a second chance.
Director: Thierry Nevez.
Cast: Estelle Brehon, Vincent Desprat, Nicolas Kersiak.
France, 2010.
Language: French.
1280x720 HD
3. Le cours de danse. 2011. HD.
Le premier cours de danse d'un jeune garçon prend une tournure inattendue...
Director: Vincent Bourassa.
Cast: Trystan Bouthiller, Nathalie-Ève Roy.
Canada, 2011.
Language: French.
1280x720 HD
4. Solomon Islands. Remote Kwaio Tribes. 2019. HD.
The Kwaio are one of the very last melanesian tribes holding on to their traditions. Some groups still remain in the hidden, as they call it, and live according to Kastom -their indigenous culture-, rejecting church and modern life.
Language: English.
Subtitles: English.
1920x1080 HD
5. Užgesus šviesoms / When the Lights Go Out. 2019. HD.
"When the Lights Go Down" is a fantasy movie based on a personal experience of the film director. The film tells a story about a teen boy who is being bullied in school. A boy named Mantas creates his own guardian demon, who protects him from the bullies. Although it is not letting the boy to live a normal life. Film's timeline portrays one day at school, when the classmates of Mantas assault and beat up him badly. And here it comes, the guardian demon ready to revenge.
Director: Jonas Trukanas.
Cast: Nojus Stankevicius, Mija di Marco, Ainius Marazas.
Lithuania, 2019.
Language: Lithuanian.
Subtitles: English.
1280x720 HD
6. Skolerne på Lolland-Falster / The Schools on Lolland-Falster. 1950. HD.
DK. Optagelser fra forskellige skoler på Lolland-Falster. Billeder af leg i skolegården. Undervisning i sløjd, håndarbejde, husholdningslære, musik og gymnastik med hop over buk i slowmotion. Rundbold i skolegården og anden leg. Skøjtning på frossen sø. Drengegymnastik i sal med reb-øvelser i slowmotion. Piger springer over træplint m.m. Fra omkring 1950'erne.
EN. Recordings from various schools on Lolland-Falster. Pictures of play in the schoolyard. Teaching in handicrafts, needlework, home economics, music and gymnastics with jump over belly in slow motion. Round ball in the schoolyard and other play. Skating on frozen lake. Boys gymnastics in hall with rope exercises in slow motion. Girls jump over wooden plinth m.m. From around the 1950s.
Denmark, 1950.
1920x1080 HD
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Mutanten / Mutants. 2002.

 DE. Mit ihrem Alltag kann die 13-jährige Paula nicht viel anfangen. Mit ihrer Mutter lebt sie in einer Kleinstadtsiedlung, umgeben von freundlichen Nachbarn, gepflegten Gärtchen und pubertierenden Mitschülern. Alles ist scheinbar in Ordnung, und jetzt, nur noch wenige Tage vor den großen Ferien gibt es eigentlich keinen Grund zu klagen. Aber Paula beobachtet scharf, und sie traut dem Frieden nicht. Sie hat da ihre Vermutungen. Mit ihrem durch umfangreiche Horrorfilmstudien geschärften Blick sieht sie scheinbar als Einzige die drohende Gefahr: Außerirdische infiltrieren die Menschheit, schleichend bemächtigen sie sich der Erdbewohner und verwandeln sie in einfältige, emotionslose und freundliche Wesen. Aber es gibt einen, der scheint noch nicht Opfer der außerirdischen Machenschaften geworden zu sein - Jens. Er ist wütend und verschlossen und das fasziniert Paula. Sie findet heraus, dass er bei einem Unfall seine Eltern verloren hat. Je länger sie ihn beobachtet, desto sicherer ist sie: Jens ist nicht infiltriert. Doch Jens hat nicht gerade auf sie und ihre Theorien gewartet. Um ihm näher zu kommen, erfindet Paula den Tod ihres Vaters. Zusammen brennen die beiden mit dem Kleintransporter vom Schwimmbad durch. Das Ziel der Reise ist der Unfallort seiner Eltern. Am Ende wird Jens erkennen, dass man Seelenfrieden nicht so einfach erreicht, wie einen
EN. There's no such thing as an average everyday existence for 13-year-old Paula, who lives with her mother in a small town. Paula's view of things has been sharpened by an extensive and consistent diet of horror films. According to her, extra-terrestrials are busy infiltrating humankind and transformin
Director: Katalin Gödrös.
Cast: Karoline Teska, Jacob Matschenz, Sabine Timoteo, Peter Lohmeyer, Barbara Philipp, Dominique Sghair, Ludmilla Lencés, Rebecca Scheurle.
France, Germany, 2002.
Language: German.
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