Cinema Directory

Summary: Young Anna's love for a beautiful, high-spirited horse leads her to form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious child who seems to have no home. Together, the two embark on an adventure to keep the horse from being sent away forever.

Summary: Visually beautiful film about a young girl trying to survive in the male dominated world of horse racing.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: A New Adventure From the World of Jumanji

Summary: Two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is magically hurtled through space because of the board game they are playing.

Comments: Louis Malle's Comedy With No Holds Barred !

Summary: The first signs of the importance of surrealism in Malle's oeuvre were demonstrated in his decision to adapt Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le metro. Queneau, an ex-surrealist and ex-Marxist, had become a literary hit after publishing the novel on which the film was based. It is the simple story of the misadventures of the rambunctious and frequently cursing Zazie's first trip to Paris. Swearing and shouting her way through the city, she is obsessed with her mission to take a ride on the metro. In narrating a little girl's crazy experience of a weekend in Paris, Malle demonstrated an enormous range of cinematic techniques and styles: 8 and 12- frame-per-second photography; slow-motion acting; mirrored background effects; collapsing sets; as well as numerous destabilizing effects. The result is a truly unique filmic collage that does not leave the viewer more than a second to catch breath before a new visual style is demonstrated. Directed by Louis Malle, France, 1960, 35mm, 93 mins. In French with English subtitles.

Comments: She's One Galactic Girl Who Saves The Day In A Stellar Way!

Summary: Kristen Storms heads the cast as Zenon Car, a trouble-prone 13-year-old girl, who, in the year 2049 A.D., lives on a space station with the rest of her family. When she runs afoul of Parker Windom, the owner of the station, Zenon is determined to be "incorrigible," and as punishment is exiled to the worst place imaginable: the planet earth. After several painful weeks of adjustment to her new surroundings, Zenon enlists the aid of his earthbound pals to return to her "real" home with evidence that the "respectable" Mr. Windom is up to no good. Originally telecast on January 23, 1999, Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century was intended as the pilot for a weekly TV series -- and though this series never came to pass, the film was deemed worthy of a sequel the following year. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Summary: 15-year-old Zenon Kar's space station home is getting torn apart by the U.S. military. She's on duty in A.P. when she comes in contact with Aliens. She must convince everyone that they need to fly out and help the aliens.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Summary: Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's owner, Terry, a musician who rides a bike.

Summary: "The Battle of Pareo Rock" tells the story of Jimmy, an 11-year old European boy who goes to Africa with his mother, a busy executive charged with establishing a golf resort. However, on arriving they find themselves caught up in a war situation between rival indigenous tribes fighting over the land. To his surprise, Jimmy meets the talking giraffe, Seraf, at a busy market. Seraf tells Jimmy that he cannot easily avoid this tribal battle. But together with Charita, a poor African girl, Jimmy embarks on an adventurous and magical trip through the African jungle, where they must overcome many obstacles. Fortunately they have help, not only from Seraf, but also from a precious medallion. Throughout their trip, they discover that they can only achieve their goal if they truly believe in themselves and don't let anybody or anything get in their way.

Summary: The story of a spirited ten-year-old girl who has run away from her proudly affluent parents in town and finds grudging refuge with the slightly slovenly caretaker of an abandoned farm, an ex-teacher.

Summary: Wander is working as an engine operator on a cargo-ship. When he takes a coffee-break, a woman appears in a talkshow on TV. In an instant, Wander recognizes her to be his long lost girl-friend Zelda from childhood days some 20 years ago. In these days, Wander used to live in a boarding-school. From his room window, he can see the house on the opposite river bank where Zelda lives. She's a really adorable young beauty, but she's less affected than one should think, and so Wander gets his chance. They are having a good time until one day when Wander finds Zelda's father in the school kitchen making love to the kitchen maid. Things turn out bad for most of the characters involved, but there's an open end.

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

Comments: They're going to save the world . . . as long as they're home for dinner

Summary: Jack (Tim Allen) is a former superhero, whose once extraordinary abilities earned him the title of Captain Zoom. Due to his present powerlessness, he works for the Zoom Academy, which is a school for children who possess unique gifts in the form of special powers. He has been assigned the task of being teacher and mentor for the latest group of undisciplined kids. Among them is his daughter Summer (Kate Mara), who has learned about her father’s secret identity only recently. Still struggling with her own adolescent problems, Summer finds a new home in the Zoom Academy as she learns to develop her abilities. While teaching the group how to harness their talents and transform their handicaps into weapons, Jack too regains a sense of control over his powers. Together, they will take on their nemeses, the kids from the Graves School of Super Villainy, and attempt to save the earth from their evil plot.

Comments: There is always hope.

Summary: The story of Zozo, who grows up in Beirut and lives a surprisingly normal life with school and friends despite the civil war raging around him. When catastrophe strikes, Zozo is suddenly forced to cope with life on his own. His only hope is to find his grandparents, who have recently emigrated to the "distant paradise" of Sweden -- to him a completely unknown country.

Summary: Twelve year old Erik goes for a swim with Sofie and her father. Sofie has a crush on Erik. But on the beach, Erik seems to be more interested in Sofie's father...

Summary: After several years without contact, Martijn visits his sister Daantje, who just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary from her life, and enters her home live with a video camera. This creates tension between Daantje and her brother because he wants to recall something that happened between them in the past. To keep Martijn at a distance, Daantje starts a relationship with Ramón, but Martijn gets between them. He manages to talk to her so that she remembers the things that happened when they were kids. This helps him to overcome his obsession for his sister, and after playing over their history, he is finally able to see her without the video camera like he did during the course of the movie.

Comments: An intimate portrait of a 13-year old girl, living Amsterdam, who loses her Russian mother and older sister Katia to the world of prostitution.

Summary: Some people find her removed from reality. Her older sister Katia even thinks she's stupid. But this is only a first impression, perhaps the result of her subconscious desire to remain a child. Or perhaps, her strange behavior is a defense against the uninspiring life she leads, a cruel existence shared with her sister and mother. Having emigrated from Russia some years previously, her mother tries to build up a life in Amsterdam and is drawn into the world of prostitution. Slowly, oldest daughter Katia follows her mother into the same obscure world. Our heroine, Katia's Sister, adores her older beautiful sister Katia, but she is getting more and more lonely, having nobody to share her feelings with. Although her surroundings are harsh, she does not judge. She continues to see the world in an unconditional and even loving manner. Despite her non-judgmental attitude, she becomes increasingly isolated, creating her own protective universe in which she sacrifices a lot, even her own name, referring to herself only as "Katia's Sister."

Summary: Silently, a young girl witnesses an unspeakable crime.

Summary: A nail biting adventure of good versus evil. Meet Lien, Sien and Fien. They're eleven-year-old triplets. They're smart, fearless and out of control. After setting fire to their school, the sisters get arrested and are put away in an institution. Not a regular reform school but... a paradise. So much better than home. Until the sisters discover that the doctor who runs the places is involved an illegal organ racket and that they are next on his list... Like all the classic tales of the supernatural, The Fearless Triplets is filled with danger and suspense but our trio of engaging and refreshingly non-cutesy female heroines make sure that all comes good in the end.

Summary: Gabriela Wagner has been taking care of young Theresa, whose mother died, and striving to keep the hotel, which she used to run together with Theresa's mother, in business. Today all of a sudden, Amelie and Siegfried Dossenbach show up, who are distant family of Theresa, and lay claim on the custody for the child. However they seem even more interested in Theresa's inheritance. In order not to lose Theresa and the hotel, Gabriela desparately searches for Theresa's unknown father. She seems to find him in the person of Tommy Behrens, a charming Berlin cook. But the Dossenbachs will not accept and don't plan to give up what they insist to be theirs.