drama
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Boys aka I Am Jonas
This French made-for-TV movie written and directed by Christophe Charrier is an intriguing tale of two incidents in young Jonas’s life that occurred some 18 years apart and that are totally intertwined. When we first see him as a quiet gameboy-obsessed 16 year old game boy in 1995, Jonas ( Nicolas Bauwens) obviously has some demons…
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El Angel
In Luis Ortega’ s dramatized intriguing take on the Argentinian real-life convicted murderer, rapist, kidnapper and thief Carlos Robledo Puch he uses all the unwarranted violence to glorify the teenage killer. In the movie Carlitos, (Lorenzo Ferro) as he is called, is a baby-faced curly-haired pretty high school-student who has already become something of…
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At The End Of The Day
At The End of The Day is one of those films that are so full of good intentions yet somehow gets so wrapped up in its own cliched preaching that it just stretches one patience way past one’s comfort zone. It’s the story of the battle between an Evangelical Christian College and a local…
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Evening Shadows
The timing could not be more perfect for the screening of Indian filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan’s beautifully nuanced family drama coming so soon after his country’s Supreme Court finally legalizing homosexuality. Being gay waa always taboo in India but never a crime in itself, but the sexual act between two men was. This is the story of Kartik…
