Cinema Directory

Summary: One summer night, somewhere in the south of France, a few children are playing in a barn. The family situation, though hard to understand, is almost accepted: the roles of the father, of the lover, of the boss, of the workers, of the mother and of the children are intermingled. Work, love and lewdness all mix. In this chaos, the mother appears as the main character, as the one who manage to make things easier to live and to protect the sweet yet conniving relationships between her children.

Languages: Russian

Summary: He loves her but he is married to another woman and can't leave her because of their daughter – is not similar to the others the same topics. A happiness and honest have left Nika, a thirteen –yeared girl, her father has another woman and that’s why their house is full of mother’s scandals- of independent, powerful and successful woman. Oleg cannot leave the family because he loves his daughter and his wife stands for him. A girl doesn’t want to give up a broken world and with her friend Slavka want to take revenge on it. Secretly she signs up for the painting courses. Her teacher is Larisa – a father’s lover. But soon two close to Oleg people get alone well together, because Nika has a real talent. When Nika finds out that Larisa is going to have her father’s baby, she tells everything to her about avenge. After the recovering, Larisa goes with her youth friend to Germany. Because of this Nika changes greatly – she forgives her father and tries to finish Larisa’s picture.

Summary: A rambunctious 11-year-old, raised in Las Vegas, has problems staying out of trouble in the various private schools in which she's enrolled. After Minerva is kicked out of another school, she returns home to her uncle Howie, who is quite exasperated over the situation. They find out that if Minerva fails to pass the entrance exam for a girls school in Boston, Howie's humorless sister Hermione will gain custody of Minerva. A solution seems possible when, through a series of comic circumstances, an unorthodox mathamatics professor agrees to tutor Minerva.

Summary: Join Mary-Kate, Ashley, and their friends as they put on their best outfits and get ready for a school dance. Also includes OUR MUSIC VIDEO, a collection of the girl's favorite music videos. Get ready to party!

Comments: Innocence is not a crime... - viattomuus ei ole rikos

Summary: Jukka, 13, is coached in photography by his openly gay art teacher. With his dead father's old camera, Jukka sees Johanna, a beautiful girl in her early twenties being physically abused by her stepfather. With the help of the local fire department, Jukka comes to her rescue. He quickly befriends the girl who works in a nearby supermarket, claims to become her manager and enters her in a beauty contest.

Summary: Game warden Miller lives on an isolated island off the Carolina coast. The only other inhabitant is Evvie, an naive young girl to whom Miller is attracted. Traver, a black musician on the run from a lynch mob after falsely being accused of rape, lands on the island. Miller wants to turn him in and remove him from the tryst, but Evvie likes Traver and protects him. A preacher arrives from the mainland to rescue Evvie from her situation, and Traver's presence is discovered. Miller is now forced to decide whether to turn him over to the mob and lose standing in the girl's eyes.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: 18 kids, one house, no way.

Summary: Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a permanent home. Helen North is a free spirit, a designer whose ten children live in loving chaos, with occasional group hugs. Helen and Frank, high school sweethearts, reconnect at a reunion, and it's love at first re-sighting. They marry on the spot. Then the problems start as two sets of kids, the free spirits and the disciplined preppies, must live together. The warring factions agree to work together to end the marriage.

Comments: She does not play with dolls. She plays people.

Summary: A university professor, who wants to slow down a little, moves with his wife and daughter, from the big city to a small town and starts a new job as a teacher in a girls' gymnasium. Something weird is happening with the class, they seem to hide a secret. As it turns out, these girls don't play with dolls, they make a toy of human lives - and soon teacher's life and family are jeopardized by something evil. And whether he'll be able to get out of this nightmare, depends solely on a little girl, who claims: "all I wanted is my mommy to be happy".