Cinema Directory

Summary: (Ugly Swans) Science-fiction drama. Victor, a US-based Russian writer, goes in search of his daughter in Tashlinsk - an isolated city subject to extreme climate change. Victor traces her to a school for gifted children run by mysterious mutants, the 'mokretsy'. When conflct breaks out between the government and the mokretsy, Victor must try to save his daughter.

Comments: Joe Kingman had the perfect game plan to win the championship... but first, he has to tackle one little problem.

Summary: Top Boston Rebels football star, Quarterback Joe Kingman, has an unknown 8-year old daughter from a former marriage show up on his doorstep. This precocious youth, Madison Pettis, transforms his life from a egotistical, promiscuous bachelor to a loving father. Instead of decreasing his popularity, his daughter makes the athlete even more popular among fans and teammates. Joe Kingman admires Elvis Presley (The King) and fills his life with Elvis memorabilia and actions. Little Madison steers her Dad away from his exotic, blonde Russian girlfriend, Tatianna, towards her wholesome ballet teacher, Monique Vasquez. A turn of events ends with a happy ending for both the football and romance sides of this Disney family big-budget film.

Comments: Come with a Dream. Leave with a Story.

Summary: Are you young, sexually confused, just trying to get by? Do you sing, dance or possess some other talent? Welcome to the world of GARDEN PARTY. At the center of the story is 15-year-old April (Willa Holland). She is running from one bad situation into another, hoping to find an answer that doesn't involve taking off her clothes. As April navigates Los Angeles, she falls in with a group of confused kids struggling to chase their dreams. The black widow at the center of this web is a sexy, pot-dealing realtor named Sally St. Clair (Vinessa Shaw). Anyone who gets too close falls victim to her kinky entanglements. For some it goes bad, for other worse, but that's just a day in the life of the Garden Party.

Languages: English, Spanish,

Summary: A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.

Languages: English

Summary: An 8-year-old girl is taken from her home and convinced that her family does not want her anymore. After enduring 9 years of horror, she and her fellow victim are dumped by their captures. Now, 17 years old and no one to turn to, except each other they do their best to survive life on the streets, until one day she finally accepts the help of a shelter counselor to find her way home. However, what she truly finds is the love of her life and that you can never go back. "Gardens of the Night", is a haunting, gritty and topical story which delves deep into the world of child abduction and where it often leads...for the "lucky ones." The writer/director, Damian Harris bases his story on the kids, counselors, cops and pimps he met during two years of research.

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Comments: ... pray it's not too late!

Summary: Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.

Summary: Где ты, Багира?

Tanya has lots of friends. They build nests in trees and do all kind of fun stuff. One day, coming from school, they discover a big St. Bernhard. At first the dog seems to be mean and dangerous. Dreaming of him every night and learning how to communicate with the dog, Tanya manages to become friends with Bagira.

However, one day the owner decides it's time to sell Bagira as a snow patrol rescue dog for use in the Caucasus.

Languages: Lithuanian

Summary: 'Keistuolių teatras'- professional and private theatre, which plays for children and adults. This theatre was created by diplomaed actors Ilona Balsytė, Aidas Giniotis and Sigutis Jačėnas. In 1999 year a theatre became ASSITEJ member.

'Keistuolių teatras' made 30 plays, created 5 videofilms for children and 3 for adults, 10 tapes and 3 CDs.

Actors themselves create songs, plays, scripts. They are not afraid to break classical and boring literature, cinema or theatre frames. Their shows are with irony and tricks. This theatre plays don't let to forget children's world.

"Geltonu Plytu Kelias" is a modern adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" featuring a very young Dorothy.

Summary: A coming-of-age story about a bunch of teenage boys on a nudist vacation in Italy. Often compared to a naked "Lord of the Flies."

Summary: This French comedy-drama takes a look at divorce from the perspective of a group of children. All of their parents are splitting up and so they turn to each other for support and a sense of family.

Languages: English

Comments: Trust No One....Question Everything....Get A Clue

Summary: A wealthy student with too much fashion sense, her equally rich friends, and her rival/superior from the school paper work together to solve the case when their teacher goes missing.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: Sweet 16 and Licensed to Drive

Summary: This film is about Mary-Kate and Ashley turning sixteen years old and going on a road trip without parents. They are headed to Utah for the Olympics and arrive late. There are also scenes in Las Vegas. The twins do not drive alone in this movie, they take a bus.

Languages: English

Summary: Four kids learn about a phantom that haunts the nearby forest. Ghost-buff Carrie immediately convinces her friends to track and capture the ghost. When inventor Jesse devises an ingenious way to trap the spirit, The Ghost Club is off and running! But dark clouds roll in as Carrie and her brother Chris find out that Mom is about to lose the family ice cream parlor business to a ruthless developer. Against all odds, they band together and devise a plan to bring down the evil businessman. Can they save the day? With a little luck, high tech gadgets, and a bit of help from a ghost they might just pull it off

Comments: Accentuate the negative.

Summary: Enid and Rebecca are social outsiders who, after graduating from high school, play a mean prank on a middle-aged geek.

Summary: A boy, about twelve years old, and the son of a recently fallen Israeli soldier, wins a judo contest. However, the boy he has beaten in the final, is the school bully, and soon his gang will beat him up. He redeems himself later that day when he joins a lovely girl called Alicia, a Russian immigrant, her older brother Lev (who suffers from down syndrome) and another bespectacled kid, in rescuing a young couple who has been left dying in a lake after crashing with their truck.

Summary: (The Game; School of Fear). The movie deals with a young teacher who tries to figure out what kind of game her students are playing. The rules include rape and murder, unfortunately.

Summary: A garden in a quiet suburban neighborhood.
Girl at the Well is the second film in the as yet uncompleted series
“Gewichtig Wachten”.

Comments: In this town murder became the neighborhood game

Summary: Based on the Jack Ketchum novel of the same name, The Girl Next Door follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt...and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.

Summary: A look at three girls, young teens, in the era of the Beatles. Pam lives with parents who haven't spoken directly to each other in two years, using their daughters to talk across the table to each other. Gloria wants to play games with her boyfriend Graeme and ends up pregnant after a kissless, passionless introduction to sex. Stella becomes popular and puts her friendship with Pam on hold. Meanwhile, Pam's father and other predatory men lurk in the shadows around the girls.

Summary: A 'social experiment' fly-on-the-wall documentary following 10 12-year girls left alone to fend for themselves in a house without adult supervision.

Languages: English

Comments: Girls Rock! follows the journey of four 8-18-year-olds as they are transformed by the liberating powers of music at the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls. Given the opportunity to bash the drums, wail like a banshee and take up space, the girls jettison gender stereotypes like old hats on their way to a joyous final concert that will change their lives forever.

Summary: At Rock 'n' Roll Camp, girls ranging in age from eight to 18 are taught that it's OK to sweat like a pig, scream like a banshee, wail on their instruments with complete and utter abandon, and that "it is 100% okay to be exactly who you are." The girls have a week to select a band, an instrument they may have never played before, and write a song. In between, they are taught by indie rock chicks such as Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney various lessons of empowerment from self-defense to anger management. At the end of the week, all the bands perform a concert for over 700 people. The film follows several campers: Laura, a Korean adoptee obsessed by death metal; Misty, who is emerging from a life of meth addiction, homelessness and gang activity; and Amelia, an eight-year-old who writes experimental rock songs about her dog Pipi. The girls are given a temporary reprieve from being sexualized, analyzed and pressured to conform.

Comments: "It is the Alethiometer. It tells the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself."

Summary: It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust- found only in the vast Artic expanse of the North -was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle...

Summary: Summer 1960. Tanya, along with her parents came to visit grandmother. Here she meets the eclectic Alyosha, who lives in the village with his father. In his barn, Alyosha carefully constructs a balloon, dreaming one day to fly on it ... The kids know that August is coming to an end and Tanya has to go back to the city. Then disaster strikes...

This summer will live forever in the memories of Alyosha. A story of first love, and a once-in-a-lifetime friendship.

Languages: English

Comments: Can a court determine how we should live, how we should love, how we should raise our children? Now Anna must prove that she is the Good Mother.

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Summary: 6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and later try to steal a device called a "Mielophone" (which can read thoughts) from Alisa Seleznyova - a girl that performs experiments with this device and animals. Kolya manages to save the device from the pirates and brings it back to the 20th century. But both pirates and Alisa get there too. Alisa knows where Kolya studies but doesn't know what he looks like. Pirates saw Kolya, but don't know anything about him.

Languages: Spanish, Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Summary: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life, particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Velázquez's work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination. Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings.

Summary: Stan Philipps's wife Grace is a sergeant with the U.S. Army. While she's posted to Iraq, the earnest Stan is home in Minnesota with their daughters, Heidi, 12, and Dawn, 8. He manages a home supply store. After morning visitors bring Stan news, he takes the girls for a car ride that turns into a spontaneous trip to Dawn's favorite place, a Florida amusement park. On the way, they stop at Stan's mother's house, where his brother is staying. Heidi is an insomniac, who tries to fathom her father's uncharacteristic behavior. Dawn is cheerfully unreflective. They have fun at the park. Stan summons his courage.

Comments: Inspired by one family's real story

Summary: A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

Summary: In this sixth and penultimate delivery of the Parchís, the infantile musical group is acting in Brazil. After following one another a series of eventful journeys, finally they finish lost in the amazonian forest, where they are captured by a native tribe. The beaches of the Pacific, the cataracts of the Iguazú or the selváticos lands of the Amazon serve as bottom the performances of our five friends.[translated online from Spanish]

Comments: It was a summer that would last a lifetime.

Summary: Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.

Summary: After many years of medical treatment Valentina, apparently an epileptic girl, has been sent to a psychiatric clinic. Here she finds Arturo, a young psychiatrist, who notwithstanding his problematic personal life and the Italian Public Health Service's overwhelming inefficiencies, is able to establish with Valentina an intense relationship. Focusing the therapy more on her family life than on drugs they will finally discover the true nature of her disease.

Languages: Lithuanian

Summary: The Beautiful Girl is the story of a sensitive yet impish young girl who is elected beauty queen by her playmates, and thus becomes convinced of her own good looks until a strange boy appears to shatter her self-image by announcing that she isn t pretty at all. In the struggle to regain her equilibrium, the little girl, played seductively by 10-year-old Inga Mickyte of Kaunas takes us through meditations on loneliness, love, and the true nature of beauty. Through the eyes of The Beautiful Girl, director Zebriunas plays out complex human issues with moving simplicity. Lithuania, 1969, directed by Arunas Zebriunas, B/W, CinemaScope, 71 minutes, sound, Lithuanian dialogue,

Summary: Single mother Esma wants to grant her twelve-year-old daughter Sara's wish to participate in a school trip. A certificate proving her father is a war martyr would allow her a discount. But Esma continues to avoid Sara's requests for the certificate. She would rather find a way to pay full price for the trip. She believes not telling the truth about Sara's father is a way to protect both her and her daughter.

Summary: Young Pip is expected to become a blacksmith, but, hating the soot and smoke, he secretly dreams of becoming a gentleman. When he meets the mysterious Miss Havisham and her haughty niece Estella, Pip is confident that his dream is to come true.

Languages: English, French

Comments: Let desire be your destiny.

Summary: Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him...

Summary: Onnoval is the nerd of the class. Gino is the most popular boy and picks on Onnoval to bully him around. Not welcome because Onnoval has a crush on another classmate, the pretty Liselore. Onnoval likes to write stories. In one of these he takes his revenge on Gino. Then the Buss of Horrors (=griezelbus) arrives to take the class on a school trip and suddenly Onnoval's story turns into reality...

Summary: The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.

Comments: A provocative new film about what we go through to find out who we are.

Summary: Kati and Steffi are best friends since childhood. But as they step into adulthood, both their perfect friendship and their personalities get harshly tested by a series of unfortunate events; mainly caused by Steffi finding out her father wasn't quite faithful to her mother, and the two girls getting hit by the consequences of her delirious revenge plans. When things get out of hand, the two girls find themselves in the middle of a mess, and Kati starts questioning whether or not Steffi is really so precious to her. Where will Steffi's plans of penalizing her father's "evil" lover will end up..? Will the girls' friendship be saved..?

Summary: A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the 70s hit TV series "The Brady Bunch." Based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.

Comments: Every curse has a beginning. Every beginning has an end.

Summary: A young Japanese woman who holds the key to stopping the evil spirit of Kayako, travels to the haunted Chicago apartment from the sequel, to stop the curse of Kayako once and for all and save a family who are currently being haunted by her malicious spirit.

Summary: Sieben Sommersprossen einige Jahre später. Robert und Susanne lieben sich und heiraten, weil Susanne schwanger ist. Sie bekommen eine Ausbauwohnung - und Zwillinge, die sie Romeo und Julia nennen. Die junge Liebe scheint dem Ehe-Alltag nicht stand zu halten. Robert arbeitet am Tag, nachts fährt er schwarz Taxi. Susanne hat den Haushalt und die Zwillinge. Wenn Robert müde nach Hause kommt, schreien die Kinder, Susanne läuft in Kittelschürze und Lockenwicklern herum und zeigt abends nur noch Interesse für das Fernsehprogramm. Das Geld reicht nie, die Stimmung sinkt auf den Nullpunkt. Robert zieht aus und geht zu dem attraktiven Mannequin Jeanine. Susanne lässt den hilfreichen Kumpel Paul bei sich wohnen. Doch mit den neuen Partnern geht es auch nicht gut. Susanne unternimmt einen Selbstmordversuch, kann aber gerettet werden. Zwischen beiden ist immer noch Liebe - und somit Hoffnung auf einen neuen Anfang.

Languages: German,

Summary: A strange green cloud has turned almost the entire human race into stone. The only survivors are eight children, their intrepid teacher Birnenstiel and his friend, a jolly millionaire, who by chance all happen to be in an airship above the green cloud at the time. Against this background Birnenstiel tells a bizarre adventure story in which he and the children are heroes. With loving and pointed irony he confronts his protagonists with deep-frozen beauty queens, gene-manipulated tomatoes, extraterrestrial maniacs, aggressive goldfish and last but not least the rampant mechanics of an abandoned civilisation which claims its victims one by one. When the narrator goes too far, the children take the story into their own hands... Written by Claus Strigel

Languages: German

Comments: Egal was passiert, ich werde immer bei dir sein

Summary: The green desert is the forest where Katja and Johann live out their daydreams. The forest surrounds their home town and sometimes Katja wishes it would swallow it all up and with it the constraints of her family. Her friendship and love for Johann and their mutual dream to one day excavate a knight and found their own museum give Katja the air to breathe that the confinement of her home threatens to cut off. But this childlike fantasy of a world of chivalry is cruelly invaded by real life when Johann begins to suffer from leukaemia. The Green Desert tells the story of losing one's childhood, of encountering first pain, and of growing up and growing strong.

Summary: We were in a small school of district, when Don Matías, its owner and proprietor, announces the closing because of numerous debts. The five children protagonists will put hands to the work and with the aid of Superman, the dog of Don Matías, will decide to fight against the real estate one that the existence of escula threatens. But first a "head" must choose reason why all will have to pass a test of valentía. Gamberradas and trastadas the children begin to make a series of that sabotaged the plans of the real estate one, but the unscrupulous heads of this one, do not occur by won. Finally, the five children and Superman, decide to kidnap to Don Atilio, the owner of the company, for thus, to be able to be listened. [online translated from spanish]

Summary: A group of teenagers debate over whether or not to return a bundle of money they have found for the reward money offered.

Comments: Injustice is a cruel thing.

Summary: A touching tale about a little girl (Eva), her mean cousin (Berit) and her uncaring aunts. Eva's mother is in the hospital and might not make it, and her aunt's aren't exactly making it easy for her. Add the cruelty of her cousin, and you've got an interesting story about how a little girl fights injustice in her own special way.

Languages: English

Comments: Love made them crazy. Guns made them outlaws.

Summary: Anita is a nymphomanic high-school girl who frequently allows random boys and men to have sex with her, and is frequently raped by her absentee mother's boyfriend. As part of a school assignment Anita takes up correspondence with a lonely young prison inmate, whose letters stir up dormant desires for violence and guns. After buying herself a firearm, Anita convinces her mother's boyfriend to teach her how to use it, and, after he rapes her again, shoots him to death and hides the body. She then sets about getting her new "boyfriend" out of jail and to her, where she slowly drags him with her on her downward spiral of sex, violence, and murder for the sake of murder.

Summary: Six episode TV series