drama
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THE GOLDEN DREAM aka ‘La jaula de oro’
This story about Guatemalan teenagers trying to escape their life of poverty and illegally cross the Mexican Border after a long and arduous journey en route to the USA, is one of the saddest and most dispiriting I have seen in a very long time. It starts with three friends Samuel, Juan and his girlfriend…
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HUMAN CAPITAL aka Il Capitale Umano
On a snowy wintry night in a small town in the suburbs of Milan, after he has worked at an Awards Evening for the local school, a waiter jumps on his bike to make his way home. However before he can get there, he is run over by a hit-and-run driver who leaves him at…
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Westerland
The setting for Tim Staffel’s adaption of his own novel is as bleak and desolate as the story itself. On the windswept icy mass of the island of Sylt off Germany’s most northernmost region, young Jesus is sitting alone on a bench in the middle on nowhere, with a plastic bag over his head. The…
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My Straight Son aka ‘Azul y No Tan Rosa’
Diego a successful Fashion Photographer in Caracas has commitment phobia but the very night he is about to tell Fabrizio his Doctor boyfriend that he will move in with him after all, is the same night that Fabrizio is the victim of a vicious fatal gay bashing. It is also the same night that Armando…
