Anthology of short films. Part 85.

 New issue of Anthology of Short Films, this time a little unusual, number eighty five, goes on the screens of the world. Today we will see eight mini-films, all of them in high resolution.
1. Le pays qui n'existe pas / Neverland. 2012. HD.
12 year old Jeanne is spending a weekend with her parents. In a moment of indiscretion, Jeanne finds out her father has a lover.
Director: Cécile Ducrocq.
France, 2012.
Language: French.
Subtitles: English, German.
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2. Amanda ja Tomi. 2015. HD.
Amanda, a 7-year old girl, has to go to open heart surgery as she has had heart surgery since birth. She is very afraid and tries to get away from it, but in the hospital she meets another young child Tomi, who also has heart disease. With friendship of Tomi and the guidance of hospital staff she is now less frightened about the operation.
Director: Timo Lampinen.
Finland, 2015.
Language: Finnish.
Subtitles: English.
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3. U menya vsyo yest. 2014. HD.
Leshe is 14 years old; he lives in the village of Kletino, a hundred kilometers from Moscow. He has a mom and a house, friends and Rem's old shepherd, a computer and a bicycle. He has a childhood and summer days. He has everything.
Director: Inna Omelchenko.
Russia, 2014.
Language: Russian.
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4. Sueños / Dreams. 2003. HD.
Two boys throw eggs from the roof at passers-by and in between share their dreams.
Director: Daniel Guzmán.
Spain, 2003.
Language: Spanish.
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5. Tom, el salvaje. 1976. HD.
While shopping, mom tells Thomas not to go upstairs, as Aunt Juana is about to take a nap. But it was not there...
Director: Miguel Hermoso.
Spain, 1976.
Language: Spanish.
1920x1080 HD
6. END. 2013. HD.
De hát az ember nem arra született, hogy legyőzzék. Az embert el lehet pusztítani, de nem lehet legyőzni.
Director: Kata Oláh.
Hungary, 2013.
Language: None.
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7. A Summer Rain. 2009. HD.
An 11-year-old immigrant girl from Israel is welcomed to America by a Vietnamese refugee her age.
Director: Ela Thier.
USA, 2009.
Language: Hebrew.
Subtitles: English.
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8. Gjemsel. 2009.
Two girls' metaphorical journey through stages of womanhood. The metaphor being a game of hide and seek in an abandoned house.
Director: Aleksandra Niemczyk.
Norway, 2009.
Language: None.
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Vkhodyashchaya v more / Entering the Sea. 1965. HD.

 This Short film is a thesis work by Leonid Osyka. He was publicly accused of "existentialism", "decadence", "borrowing from the "new wave". The director, despite the opinion of the leadership, did not back down from the film and refused to redo it. "Vkhodyashchaya v more" (Entering the sea) is a short poetic parable about the beginning of human life. A little girl played on the seashore, and it stretched before her as a free poetic element of being, and on the beach, next to her, there was an adult life, everyday life, prose...
Directors: Leonid Osyka, Vladimir Saveliev.
Cast: Tanya Malysh, Antonina Leftiy, Zoya Nedbay, Gennadiy Yukhtin, Pyotr Goltvyansky.
USSR, Kinostudiya Dovzhenko, 1965.
Language: Russian.
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Deux enfoirés à Saint-Tropez. 1986. DVD.

 FR. Deux enfoirés à Saint-Tropez est un film français de Max Pécas sorti en 1986. C'est le deuxième film de la « trilogie tropézienne » du réalisateur, après Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez et avant On se calme et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez.
Le film débute par la sortie de prison de Paul, condamné à quatre mois de prison à la place de son ami Julius. Afin de changer les idées de Paul, Julius décide de l'emmener à Saint-Tropez. Les deux jeunes hommes "empruntent" au passage une voiture et font sur le trajet la connaissance d'une charmante auto-stoppeuse, Évelyne, dont Julius ne tarde pas à tomber amoureux. Pour Paul, l'amour resurgit sous la forme de son ancienne compagne Milka, aux bras d'un marchand d'art quelque peu désagréable dénommé Saedi. C'est alors qu'on propose à Paul et à Julius de subtiliser deux statuettes pré-colombiennes appartenant à Saedi, qui s'avère en fait être un escroc. Mais le larcin ne se déroulera pas forcément comme prévu par nos deux compères.
EN. Deux enfoirés à Saint-Tropez (Two bastards in Saint- Tropez) (1986) is movie a French B movie by Max Pécas.
It is the second film of his "Saint-Tropez" trilogy. It is the last success of Max Pécas (the last one being a failure).
Julius takes his best friend Paul, fresh out of prison, to the South of France for a vacation. But new girls, old flames, lies and a couple of stolen statuettes await.
Director: Max Pécas.
Cast: Philippe Caroit, Jean-Michel Noirey, Lillemour Jonsson, Caroline Tresca, Denis Karvil, Claude Bruna, Jean Vinci, Stéphanie Billat, Marie Daëms, Gérard Croce, Daniel Mitrecey, Carole Keeper.
France, 1986.
Language: French.
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Passion Despair. 2011.

 Steff Gruber's documentary film portrays the Swiss photographer Daniel Leuenberger, who lives in Moldova and specialises in photographing girls aged between 9 and 14.
Daniel has caused much controversy with the photos of his models which he sells via the Internet. Daniel's critics base their argument above all on the fact that the majority of his customers are pedophiles.
Daniel Leuenberger too finds himself marginalised and pushed to the edge. In the film he talks about how he deals with his feelings, about prejudice and about his work as a photographer of girls. The film raises questions of how images are used and their effects in a world increasingly dominated by the media.
In addition to Daniel's work as a portrait photographer, the film concentrates on the daily struggle for survival of Moldovan families and life in the officially non-existent neighbouring state of Transnistria. The small state, in which half a million people live, is hermetically sealed off from the outside world. Police and secret service are omnipresent; any opposition is nipped in the bud. The film shows how the mostly fatherless families in these two countries find ways to survive.
The film premiered at the Gdansk Dokfilm Festival 2011.
Director: Steff Gruber.
Cast: Romina Juravskaia, Daniel Leuenberger, Ana Nasushnaia, Katja Neugodnikova, Larisa Sirbu, Olga Stepnova, Luba Voitetcaia, Tamara Zaitseva.
Switzerland, 2011.
Language: German.
Subtitles: English.
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Papa est parti, maman aussi. 1989. DVD.

FR. Papa est parti, maman aussi est un film français réalisé par Christine Lipinska, sorti en 1989.
Un dimanche matin, Laurette, 16 ans, constate que ses parents ont quitté le domicile familial après une violente dispute survenue la veille au soir lors d'un dîner. Chacun est parti de son côté. L'adolescente se retrouve donc seule avec ses deux jeunes frères, Jérôme et Manu, et sa petite sœur, Pamela. Suite à des échanges téléphoniques avec ses parents, Laurette va leur laisser croire mutuellement que l'un des deux est toujours présent à la maison. Ainsi, la jeune fille va profiter de cette situation pour faire l'apprentissage de la liberté et tomber pour la première fois amoureuse.
EN. A coming-of-age film: When Laurette's parents disappear following a row, Laurette assumes responsibility for the family. The initial fiesta of children alone gives way to abandonment and the pressures of responsibility.
Director: Christine Lipinska.
Cast: Benoit Magimel, Nicolas Neuhuys, Mehdy Sebty, Frederic Thanh N'Guyen, Sophie Aubry, Jerome Kircher, Anais Subra, Marie Riviere, Stephane Bouy, Marianne Epin, Jean Bollery, Brigitte Winstel, Maite Maille, Roland Tolmatchoff, Michael Belissa, Ghyslaine Lipinsky, Jacqueline Salaun.
France, 1989.
Language: French.
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Ben Loke'ah Bat / Boy Takes Girl / Boy Meets Girl. 1982.

Boy Meets Girl (Hebrew: בן לוקח בת) is a 1982 Israeli drama directed by Michal Bat-Adam. It was filmed on location at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi.

The story is a semi-autobiographical account of Bat-Adams' own upbringing at a kibbutz boarding school. Her 1994 film, Aya: Imagined Autobiography (Hebrew: איה), revisits the character of Aya, who is now a married woman haunted by her past.

Aya (Einat Helfman) is a shy 10-year-old girl who has grown up in Tel Aviv. When her parents, who are both doctors, travel to Thailand as part of their work, Aya is placed in a boarding school on a kibbutz. As an outsider, she has difficulty adjusting to the insularity and unfamiliar values and practices of kibbutz society. She struggles to cope with the challenges of living with dozens of her peers in a communal children's dormitory where there is no separation according to gender.

Director: Michal Bat-Adam.

Cast: Gabi Eldor, Ilan Dar, Shai Golan, Gill Dontchevsky, Ayala Fiszel, Erella Ashkenazi, Andrea Sade, Dina Limon, Einat Helfman, Assaf Zur, Osnat Farago.

Israel, 1982.

Language: English.

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Mérette. 1982. DVD.

 FR. Mérette est un téléfilm suisse réalisé par Jean-Jacques Lagrange, sur un scénario de Jean-Louis Roncoroni d'après un récit de Gottfried Keller, diffusé en 1982.
Mérette est l'histoire d'une jeune fille révoltée, au XIXe siècle, qui en veut à Dieu de lui avoir repris sa mère. Elle refuse l'éducation très protestante que son père tente de lui imposer en la plaçant auprès du pasteur Magnoux, dans la campagne vaudoise. Oppressée par ces règles religieuses, Mérette trouve refuge dans son imaginaire et dans la douceur de la nature. Mais la société des adultes est intransigeante…
Mérette a reçu le prix du Festival du Film d'Auteur de San Remo 1982 ainsi que le prix Louis-Philippe Kammans des télévisions francophones.
EN. Mérette is a pretty child, living within a patrician, strictly Calvinist family in the Switzerland of the 19th century. She is happy, until her mother dies, and she blames God, and gives up her religion. Her family turns against her, the villagers reject her, and her priest drives her into isolation.
Director: Jean-Jacques Lagrange.
Cast: Anne Bos, Jean Bouise, Isabelle Sadoyan, Patrick Lapp, Catherine Eger, Yvette Théraulaz, Richard Vachoux, Charlie Nelson, Christine Wipf, François Simon, Michèle Gleizer, Laurence Montandon, Virginie Benard.
Switzerland, France, 1982.
Language: French.
Subtitles: English.
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Drømmen / We Shall Overcome. 2006.

 Drømmen (Danish "The Dream", English: We Shall Overcome) is a 2006 Danish film based on a true story about a young boy's crusade against a dictatorial headmaster of the "old school".

Denmark 1969. When 13 year old Frits is caught in the girls locker room, school principal Svendsen almost tears Frits' ear off. It has to be stitched in the hospital. The doctor says this time the principal has gone a step too far. Parents, colleagues, and class mates react affected by the incident. But it's not that easy to file a child abuse charge against the powerful principal who is highly esteemed in the small community. When the police say it's a school matter, Frits' parents are hesitant about going to the school board because other parents had to move away after their child abuse charge was turned down. But with the help of young hippie teacher Freddie and some of Frits' classmates, the determination of Frits' parents grows to bring down the violent principal.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev.

Cast: Bent Mejding, Anders W. Berthelsen, Jens Jørn Spottag, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Peter Hesse Overgaard, Sarah Juel Werner, Janus Dissing Rathke, Elin Reimer, Kurt Ravn.

Denmark, 2006.

Language: Danish.

Subtitles: English.

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Anthology of short films. Part 84.

 The new, number eighty four, issue of Anthology of short films is ready. Today in this compilation there are 5 mini-films.
1. Ice Cream. 2014. HD.
In the wild, remote jungle of the playground, three 7 year old's find themselves caught in a love triangle.
Director: Khaliel Abdelrahim.
Cast: Jack Gross, Derrick T. Tuggle, Cristian Fagins, Isabella Blythe Suarez.
USA, 2014.
Language: English.
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2. Eat. 2016. HD.
Eat is an unsettling look at the ritualistic nature of dinner and how people, in particular family, regularly gather together to take part in a meal. The film follows four children hoping to make it through a family meal without incident by adhering to the strict etiquette set by their intimidating mother figure. The children also have another concern... what's being served?
Director: Carl Shanahan.
Cast: Ki'Juan Whitton, Laurence Read, Rory Galley, Isabel Shanahan, Martin Doran, Brian Stewart, Mary Benn.
UK, 2016.
Language: English.
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3. Élémentaire. 2018. HD.
Documentary film produced as part of the Professional Master in Documentary and Archives at Bordeaux Montaigne University in Bordeaux.
In the heart of a remote countryside in the South West of France grow Dune and Nile. They are the two youngest siblings of 6 children, who the parents chose to raise closer to nature and away from conventional institutions, take time to live each day. A lifestyle choice that expresses the love of parents for their children, and which this film shares by telling of the special and at the same time very ordinary childhood of the young sisters, surrounded by their families.
Director: Olyana Laboile.
Language: French.
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4. Gears. 2012. HD.
After saving his daughter from a near-fatal accident, a single father tries to decipher the strange gears he begins finding throughout his home.
Director: Steven Miosku.
Cast: Maisie Merlock, César Gamiño, Matthew Huebsch.
USA, 2012.
Language: English.
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5. Eremittkrepsen / The Shelter. 1995.
Short movie about 8 years old girl who lives with quarreling parents. She tries to build psychological screen taking care of little mollusc.
Director: Tove C. Sverdrup.
Cast: Nicoline Haugsvær, Anneke von der Lippe, Jan Grønli,
Norway, 1995.
Language: Norwegian.
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Veľká Kata a jej brat. 1994.

 SK. Pôvodná hra o problémoch dospievania Katy, ale aj celej rodiny v zmenených spoločenských a sociálnych podmienkach.
EN. Original TV movie about the problems of growing up of Katy, but also of the whole family in changed social and social conditions.
Director: Zoro Laurinc st.
Cast: Katarína Sapáková, Zoro Laurinc ml., Ingrid Ištóková, Ivan Béla Vojtek, Andrea Černá, Tomáš Nemec, Matej Oravec, Andrea Bystrická, Júlia Hrková, Peter Hodáň, Katarína Krejčíková, Daniel Laurinc, Lucia Porubská, Veronika Weberová, Zuzana Weberová, Ľudovít Moravčík, Dana Koršová, Mária Čačaná.
Slovakia, 1994.
Language: Slovak.
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O ztracené lásce / Love Lost. 2002. Episodes 1-9.

 Devítidílný televizní seriál O ztracené lásce byl natočen podle stejnojmenné knihy a scénáře Evy Hudečkové. Říši krále Skrčka z Fištrónu postihne prokletí, jedno neštěstí stíhá druhé, lidská srdce se naplní bezohledností a krutostí, ztracen je i královský syn Pravoslav. To všechno způsobilo zpupné rozhodnutí krále vykázat ze země lásku jako nepotřebnou a bezvýznamnou věc. Naději pro budoucnost přináší venkovské děvčátko Honza. Přestože jí sudičky daly do vínku mnoho požehnaných vlastností, neuchrání ji od osudových ran a bolesti. Musí projít mnoha těžkými zkouškami, je stíhaná spíš zlem než dobrem, stává se terčem zášti a zloby. Honza se ale odmítá podřídit zlu a nenávisti, hledá ve svém srdci lásku jako jedinou možnou cestu k ostatním lidem. Snaží se zachránit osud milovaného prince Pravoslava i celé země, často se ocitá v nebezpečí smrti, když se obětuje pro jiné. Její strastiplnou pouť provázejí pohádkové bytosti, často stejně nevyzpytatelné jako lidé, s nimiž se na životní pouti potkává. Šťastný konec vše napraví, je však draze vykoupen a cesta k němu vede peklem.
Directors: Viktor Polesný, Josef Novák-Wajda.
Cast: Danica Jurčová, Zlata Adamovská, Jiřina Bohdalová, Vladimír Dlouhý, Zdeněk Dušek, Arnošt Goldflam, Hana Gregorová, Jiří Krejčík, Jiří Langmajer, Svatopluk Skopal, Michał Sieczkowski, Simona Stašová, Agnieszka Wagner, Zuzana Vejvodová, Nikol Štíbrová, Lucie Bílá, Jan Vlasák, Kateřina Brožová, Jana Janěková, Michal Novotný, Alena Sasínová-Polarczyk, Kristýna Frejová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Michaela Tomešová, Tereza Petrášková, Daniel Margolius, Zuzana Norisová, Daniela Šinkorová, Kristina Bastienová-Kloubková, Otakar Brousek st., Martin Sitta, Eva Leinweberová, Apolena Veldová, Michal Przebinda, Ondřej Brousek, Chantal Poullain-Polívková, Zdena Studenková, Anna Cónová, Richard Krajčo, Roman Skamene, Václav Vydra nejml., Stanislav Šárský, Kateřina Kaira Hrachovcová, Tereza Duchková, Sabina Laurinová, Pavel Vacek, Michael Beran, Pavel Nečas, Lenka Šindelářová, Dana Batulková, Norbert Lichý, Vladimír Čapka.
Czech Republic, 2002.
Language: Czech.
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Daniel y Ana / Daniel and Ana. 2009.

 EN. Daniel and Ana, brother and sister, best friends. Both are at pivotal, defining moments in their contented lives. Ana is about to be married, Daniel is a gregarious teenager discovering his personal and sexual identity. Yet their harmony is instantly shattered when they are kidnapped and something shocking happens which forces them to confront their desires and fears. Suddenly their old lives are a distant memory. Now, nothing they have known will ever be the same again.
ES. Daniel y Ana Torres, además de ser hermanos, son buenos amigos. Tienen una excelente relación a pesar de que él tiene 16 años y ella 23. Ella se va a casar en cuatro meses. Un domingo por la mañana los hermanos son víctimas de un secuestro, en el que serán obligados a tener relaciones sexuales mientras los graban en vídeo. A partir de ese momento sus vidas cambian por completo.
Director: Michel Franco.
Cast: Darío Yazbek Bernal, Marimar Vega, José María Torre, Luis Miguel Lombana, Montserrat Ontiveros, Verónica Langer, Hector Kotsifakis.
Mexico, Spain, 2009.
Language: Spanish.
Subtitles: English.
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Anthology of short films. Part 83.

 Another, this time quite small, issue of Anthology of short films, number eighty three, is ready. Today in this compilation there are just 4 mini-films.
1. La canta delle marane. 1961.
IT. La canta delle marane è un documentario del 1961, diretto Cecilia Mangini con testi originali di Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Documentario sulle periferie cittadine, ispirato dal romanzo Ragazzi di vita. Storie di ragazzi della periferia romana degli anni '60, che si ritrovano per trascorrere i momenti torridi dell'estate nella marrana e passano momenti di gioia e di vacanza, amicizie e botte, tuffi e giochi, con fuga all'arrivo delle guardie (non si può fare il bagno nella marrana).
EN. On a hot summer day, a group of boys of the Roman suburbs play and laugh in one of the many rivers that surround the city. The camera scrutinizes them, approaches them, reveals the gestures and glances, wraps them in a sort of visual dance, while the words of the commentary (entrusted to the poetic sensibility of Pier Paolo Pasolini) narrate the stories, desires, dreams, the future.
Director: Cecilia Mangini.
Writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Italy, 1961.
Language: Italian.
Subtitles: English, French.
2. Naakt / Naked. 2006.
Eight-year-old Erik's mother takes him to the sauna for the first time in his life. There he has to get naked like everyone. He sees lots of naked men and women around him. He feels very uncomfortable at first, but interested after a while enjoying it.
Directors: Diederik Ebbinge, Albert Jan van Rees.
Cast: Sem Roeters, Marike van Weelden, Frederieke Pijl, Roosmarijn Luyten.
Netherlands, 2006.
Language: Russian (Dutch).
3. Marian. 2017. HD.
There's a haunting in the house. However, things are not what they seem. Marian soon finds out that the haunting in the household is more familiar than she thinks.
Director: Brian Patrick Lim.
Cast: Astarte Abraham, Johanah Basanta, Paw Aya Bugarin, Kyri Calica.
Philippines, 2017.
Language: Tagalog.
Subtitles: English.
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4. Tumorhead / American Gladiators. 2014. HD.
Jean's little sister, Mae, may be sick, but Jean is sick of it...Mae is a bully and gets everything she wants, including Jean's pennant flag.
Director: Lara Gallagher.
Cast: Oona Laurence, Aimee Laurence, Nina Hellman, Andy Grotelueschen, Sheilagh Weymouth.
USA, 2014.
Language: English.
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