Thirteen-year-old Czech boy and a Belgian girl of the same age who meet at a roadhouse facility want to meet and talk to each other in a short time between lunch and their departure. With the help of an Arab truck driver and an African football player, they overcome the language barrier and manage to spend a few minutes without their families. Both share a modern European experience in this modest location. "Divine Sparks" offers a pleasant story about the power of communication and prejudices.
Jan
Petr
Anne
Girlfriend
Czech father
Astrid
Czech mother
A misunderstanding leads to sombre consequences as two flatmates recall very different turns of event from the previous night.
Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl and spends her time at parties with her friends. Henry has become very ill and wishes to see Marion one more time. He writes asking her to visit. When she recieves the note, she laughs and tosses it on the floor, but, later, on a whim, decides to take all her drunken friends with her to visit him. When they arrive, Marion finds Henry dead, clutching her portrait in his hand. She sends her friends away and falls to her knees in remorse. Mary Pickford's debut!
Jean-Bernard Lambillotte, assistant of the direction of the FDCBPP, is under shock when his candidature for the position of director is rejected. After 17 years of good and faithful work for his company, it will not be him but Carl De Strooper: a type cold, distant, unable to smile... Why the hell have they chosen this guy?
Clara, 15, feels a strangeness she can not express and who will lead her to commit an irreparable act.
Willy, twelve years old, loves his quiet basement bedroom and secret playboy magazine. But when Mom's new boyfriend starts spending the night in her bedroom directly upstairs, Willy's wonderful bedroom becomes a place he needs to navigate until he understands his mother as a person...
An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.
While teenagers John and Tom, who live in a refugee camp in Guinea Conakry, go from housebreaking to robbery in order to survive, Satou, similarly to many other destitute young women, turns to the streets. Things go from bad to worse and Tom - soon followed by John - gets stuck in a downward spiral of extreme violence. Will Mémé their grandmother and also a refugee, be able to save them?
A sensitive teenage boy is being harassed by peers in school because of his unwillingness to date girls.
The old man’s daughter married the foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbor Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him “Beard”. “Beard” feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, even Gienyk knows what’s on his mind. His daughter visits him while passing by. He’s not at home at that moment. When he comes back, he founds his daughter on the threshold, ready to leave. The old man sees off his daughter with sadness. And then takes the gun. Everything’s going to change in a moment… The Beard will disappear.
I didn't worry about it, until the symptoms got worse. The doctors said I had no cure, I'd be sick for the rest of my life. I wish they had been right.
As dawn creeps across London, two lost outcasts meet in the darkness, more afraid of themselves than each other. As the sun begins to rise, and the veil of the night is lifted, the pair look into the cold light of day for hope and it takes more than just the eyes to see inside a soul.
Susana is dying, five years after the last time. Fortunately, Lucia, Claudia, or whatever her name was originally, seems like a pretty decent Susana.
The Focus is the film about easy death on the Mediterranean sun.