Swing Kids

SOS jeunesse en détresse

Today in France, one in five young people suffers from severe depressive symptoms, and the number of minors visiting psychiatric emergency rooms has tripled in the last five years. Despite the political will that has been demonstrated, child psychiatry is nevertheless faced with a severe lack of resources. The interminable waiting times for treatment are causing a surge in prescriptions for psychotropic drugs.

Ako sa Vinco zaťal

An unconventionally seen story from the period of the Slovak National Uprising will especially interest you with the character of the village lad and brawler Vince Kucek, played by Ivan Romančík. Hours and hours spent in the pub, riots with friends, scenes of jealousy towards his old rival Petr Chuťek, now a partisan commander, hostile memories of the strict teacher Machoň – all this fills the seemingly carefree days of the self-confident farmer, father of two small children, husband of the faithful, devoted Eva. However, the situation in the village is getting worse. Some of the men go to fight in the mountains, but the stubborn Kucek refuses to go with them.

Wall of Silence

In the small town of Rechnitz a terrible crime against humanity was performed during the holocaust. Until now, no-one dares to talk about it.

The Eternal Sea

Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.

V hodine dvanástej

Nazi soldiers committed atrocities even when sober – and if they got drunk, they did even worse. The inhabitants of a Slovak village during the national uprising learn this when they have to accept an arrogant Hitlerite guard. When two soldiers go missing, the unit commander threatens to have five hostages executed for each of them as a warning. And he refuses to change his order, even when it turns out that drunkenness is to blame for the unfortunate incident. But the villagers get justifiably angry and take up arms.

When Dawn Breaks

Noah, 35, retreats to a beloved lakeside cabin to quietly end it all. But when his ex-wife Lizzy arrives unannounced, his carefully laid exit unravels — in ways neither of them saw coming.

Dunkirk

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

The Last Day of My Life

Yusuf is a 22-year-old young man studying law at a university in Istanbul. He lives in a student apartment in the city. One day, when everyone in the apartment has returned to their hometowns, he records a video using his computer's camera. In the video, he says that he plans to end his life but has given himself one last day. He tries to explain why he made this decision and express his feelings. Once the video ends, a 24-hour countdown begins for him. This final day becomes a search for hope. Inside him, a battle between hope and despair unfolds.

The Forest of the Lost Souls

The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.

The Imperial Navy

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

Herec

The Show

An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.

Someone

At the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers bent on brutal revenge for past atrocities attack a German city. Compassion comes from an unlikely source. Based on a true story.

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Walpurgis Night

A young journalist pays a visit backstage to interview an opera diva, but the conversation unexpectedly turns into an intricate, sensual game.

Outrages of the Orient

Recreation of the widespread rapes and murders of Filipina women by Japanese soldiers during WWII.

Scars Of Nanking

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.

Suicide

Two men verbally enact the chronology of an actor’s failed romantic connections and repeated suicide attempts. The two men maintain an intimate physical proximity, but as the film progresses, the actor becomes increasingly despondent, burdened by the process of reliving his past.

Rommel

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

What Do You Think? (Number Three)

This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.