Eight years after the cataclysm and disease that devastated the human race, leaving only one in ten survivors, all social structures collapsed like sand castles. Too few people survived to be reconstructed. All remaining animals were destroyed and sowing was not yet possible. Two groups inhabit desolate and abandoned lands: flocks of orphaned children in the wild, living in a nomadic way for their safety, and adults with their offspring …
Gabriel is an impressionable and highly influenced boy by his mother. In turn, his mother Sophia is an unbalanced and clearly unhealthy mentally person. They live in a former monastery, which Gregorio, the boy’s father, took over as a result of not entirely legal machinations. But Gregorio practically does not care about the family – he is busy arranging the monastery and solving problems with ownership of it. Suddenly, Sofia dies, falling from the balcony in the belfry of the monastery. This death, which looks more like a suicide, strongly affects Gabriel. It seems to him that his mother comes to him, talks to him. In one of these parishes, Sophia informs him that God will give her a new life if Gabriel will “behave well and do good deeds.” But the inflamed mind of a teenager pushes him to unexpected and unpredictable actions …
After a long absence, three missing children unexpectedly return to the small Argentine town. But this does not bring happiness to the inhabitants of this town, on the contrary, terrible and strange things begin to happen in the previously calm town. A wave of violence and murder covers the city. What's the matter, and how to avoid new victims? The residents of the town will have to go through a difficult and nightmare time ...
Ali, Kvita, Omar, and Bookber are street kids living in the violent streets of Casablanca. Every day of their lives is filled with violence, begging and indifference to others. To survive, they create a brotherhood among themselves. The union falls apart when Ali is attacked by a rival gang of teenagers. Ali's friends do not report his death to the police, fearing that Ali will be buried like a vagabond in a common grave. Instead, they decide to arrange a decent burial for him, and bury Ali's body on the island he so often dreamed of ...
Ciske the Rat, starring a young Dutch singer with an amazing voice, Danny De Munk, is without doubt one of the most moving childhood stories ever captured on film.
The film is set in Amsterdam in 1934. Eleven-year-old Ciske (nickname of a boy named Franciskus) is a restless child, whose childhood is in troubled wartime, and even in an incomplete family, with divorced parents. His father, a merchant sailor, is never at home and not at all is raising an only son- albeit an irritable, but kind-hearted child. Tsiske is constantly haunted by trouble both at school and on the street. Gradually, minor troubles develop into a real disaster and only a few adults, who really care about the fate of the boy, can help Tsiska get out of this situation and not fall completely to the very bottom of the abyss of far from childish problems that the child had to face ... Based on the trilogy Pet Bakker's bestselling book, "Ciske the Rat" will make you laugh, cry, scream and marvel at how one little boy can capture your heart and make you really worry about his fate ...
A documentary film about homeless Romanian children who found refuge in the Bucharest metro. These children were the most striking consequence of the collapse of the Ceausescu regime. According to the author, 20,000 children on the streets are clear evidence of the national catastrophe Romania is going through. The author tried to trace the fate of several of them trying to survive in inhuman conditions ...
Robbie, a 9-year-old boy, finds himself on an island that at first seems uninhabited, but soon he discovers that he is not alone there. He is found by a local boy, about the same age. He went to the island with his mother, but now she is already dead. He and Robbie become friends and play together for most of the movie. The story is similar to "Robinson Crusoe", and Robbie even calls his friend Friday, remembering a book once read to him by his father.Only both inhabitants of the island are children. It's easy for them to find food, Friday already has a hut. Friday does not speak English at first and does not understand Robbie, but gradually learns. Friday is not used to clothes, and soon Robbie starts running without clothes too. There is a lot of nudity in the film, but everything is supremely decent, the film is officially sold in the United States and other countries, which are very careful not to show anything superfluous in such films. And of course, in the end they are saved ...
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