пятница, 30 декабря 2016 г.

Touch the Sun: Top Enders (1988)


Director: Jackie McKimmie
Stars: Bennendine Woods, Donald Dale, John Jarratt, Madeleine Blackwell, Tommy Lewis, Justine Saunders, Bernadette Hudson, Mai Nguyen, Tony Soszynski, Susannah Fowle
 
Alice flees from home after the return of her absentee father, meets a friendly drifter named Mick, and joins him in a quest to seek out his desert community, which is in Australia's Top End.

Australia, Australian Children's Television Foundation
In English, with English subs (in .mkv)
 

четверг, 29 декабря 2016 г.

Hey, Pop! (1932)


Director: Alfred J. Goulding
Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Billy Hayes, Connie Almy, Florence Auer, Leo Hoyt, Herschel Mayall, Jack Shutta, Dan Wolheim
 
Fatty tries to keep a child from being taken to the Orphan Asylum after being orphaned by his mother only to end up unwittingly in that same Asylum.

USA,  Warner Bros.
In English, with English subs (.srt)
 

Chroniques marocaines (1999)


Chroniques marocaines / Moroccan Chronicles

Director & Writer: Moumen Smihi
Stars: Soumaya Akaaboune, Miloud Habachi, Tarik Jamil, Aïcha Mahmah, Ahmed S. Soussi, Mohamed Timoud
 
In Moroccan Chronicles, set in the ancient city of Fez, a working class mother, abandoned by her husband who has emigrated to Europe, tells three tales to her just-circumcised ten-year-old son. In the first, Smihi re-stages the Marrakech market scene from Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which a monkey trainer makes children dance for tourists. In the second, two lovers meet on the ramparts of Orson Welles’s Essaouira locations for Othello and speak of their own forbidden love. And in the third, set in Smihi’s home town of Tangier, an old sailor dreams of vanquishing a sea monster: the Gibraltar ferry that connects Europe to Africa.

Morocco
In Arabic, with English hardsubs
 

понедельник, 26 декабря 2016 г.

Cool Cat Finds a Gun (2013)



Director & Writer: Derek Savage
Stars: Derek Savage, Vivica A. Fox, Eric Roberts, Jason Johnson, Connor Gallagher, Connor Dean, Jessica R. Salazar, Jennifer Kersey, Mikee Loria, Blair Wright, April Berry, Madison Marie Steinacker

Cool Cat and his friends find a gun and then Cool Cat shows kids the right thing to do if they find a gun or see someone at school that has one.

USA,  Cool Cat Productions
In English
 

Minka (1994)



Director & Writer: Mohamed Camara
Stars: Koumadjan Keita, Aïcha Keita, Malick Mabidel Sylla

Minka, a 10-year-old orphan boy, lives alone with his stepfather who's less than kind to him. When he's sad, his friend Kany comforts him.

Short
Guinea, in Guinean, with French hardsubs + English subs (.srt)
 

воскресенье, 25 декабря 2016 г.

They Shall Have Music (1939)



Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Jascha Heifetz,  Gene Reynolds, Terry Kilburn, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Walter Brennan, Tommy Kelly, Porter Hall, Walter Tetley, Chuck Stubbs, Peter Meremblum and the California Junior Symphony Orchestra
 
A boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.

USA
In English
 

четверг, 22 декабря 2016 г.

Picc mi (1992)


Director: Mansour Sora Wade
Star: Mansour Dione, Badou Cisse Diagne, Youssou N'Dour

Madou is a talibé, a child whose education is entrusted to a marabout.  He has to earn his living by begging in the streets. In town, Madou meets Ablaye, a young boy who lives with his father in a garbage dump. Together they forget for a while the harsh realities of their daily lives.
PICC MI is "little bird" in the Wolof language, which signifies the childrens' desire to escape.

Short
Senegal, in Wolof, with English subs (.srt)
 

среда, 21 декабря 2016 г.

War Hunt (1962)



Denis Sanders
Stars: John Saxon, Robert Redford, Tommy Matsuda, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Gavin MacLeod, Anthony Ray, Tom Skerritt, William Challee, Nancy Hsueh

Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy who comes between them is examined. The Cease-Fire brings the three to a final resolution.

USA
In English (second audio)
 

вторник, 20 декабря 2016 г.

Iraq in Fragments (2006)



Director: James Longley
Stars: Mohammed Haithem, Suleiman Mahmoud, Muqtada al-Sadr, George W. Bush

Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension. An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: a fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied.
 
Documentary
USA, in Arabic and Kurdish, with English subs (.srt)
 

пятница, 16 декабря 2016 г.

Sonar Kella (1974)



Sonar Kella / The Golden Fortress

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Kushal Chakraborty, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Santanu Bagchi, Ajoy Banerjee, Bimal Chatterjee, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Santosh Dutta, Sujit Ganguly
 
Mukul, a young boy, is being haunted by memories of his previous life. He is taken to Dr. Hajra, a parapsychologist, for treatment. On discovering some drawings by Mukul that represent scenes from the past, Dr. Hajra believes that a fortress in the drawings may be in Rajasthan. Dr. Hajra decides to take Mukul on a trip to Rajasthan in the hope that it might be a cure. A newspaper reports alerts some bandits. They kidnap Mukul in hope of getting their hands on the treasure. The detective Feluda is engaged, along with his assistant Tapesh, to recover the child.
  
India
In Bengali, with English subs (.srt) 

среда, 14 декабря 2016 г.

Senko (2008)


Senko / Spark

Director: Yuki Kawamura
Stars: Toko Fujisaki, Ginga Hirao, Rin Takagi

A young Japanese family is confronted with their mother’s illness. This impressive short film shows us in deeply symbolic images how Yu and his father deal with the possibility of death, and how it affects a small child's vision of life.

Japan
In Japanese, with English hardsubs
 

Harry og kammertjeneren (1961)


Harry og kammertjeneren / Harry and the Butler

Director: Bent Christensen
Stars: Osvald Helmuth, Ebbe Rode, Gunnar Lauring, Henning Moritzen, Lise Ringheim, Lily Broberg, Olaf Ussing

Harry (Helmuth) is a simple old-time shop porter offered a chance at self-realisation when he's bequeathed a sum by an unknown relative (via several levels of fiscal blood suckers). He decides to engage a butler to take good care of him for a time. This is a man of distinguished upper class service, but a generous nature which happily integrates with Harry's small but colourful world of drinking buddies and crackpot neighbourhood kids.

Denmark
In Danish, with English subs (.srt) 
 

понедельник, 12 декабря 2016 г.

Yiri Kan (1989)


Yiri Kan / La voix du bois / The Voice of Wood

Director: Issiaka Konaté

Mahama Konaté, a great musician from Burkina Faso, initiates his son Foko into traditional culture with a musical instrument, the African xylophone. He shows him how to make one, and recounts its mythical origins; he desribes the sacred and profane role this instrument plays in society. "A village chief without a xylophone player is like a king without a crown", he tells Foko.

Short, documentary
 
Burkina Faso
Language: Mooré, with English subs (.srt)
 

пятница, 9 декабря 2016 г.

Le petit roi (1933)




Le petit roi / The Little King

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Robert Lynen, Arlette Marchal, Béatrice Bretty, Jean Toulout, Marcel Vallée, Hubert Prélier, Julien Clément, Robert Le Vigan, Jeanne Méa

The young monarch of a kingdom situated in Central Europe is sent to France because of his poor health status. There, he meets again with his mother who had been exiled from the kingdom.

***
Michel VIII, jeune souverain d'un royaume de l'Europe Centrale, de complexion délicate, souffre, confié à des mains serviles. Devant l'aggravation de son état, on l'envoie en France où il retrouve sa mère exilée pour raison d'Etat. La santé lui revient, la séparation redoutée se prépare, mais par bonheur la République est proclamée. Le petit roi ne quittera plus sa maman.

France
In French, with English subs (.srt)

Gu huo qi bing zhi bing xian zhe (1996)


Gu huo qi bing zhi bing xian zhe / 18 Shaolin Golden Boys

Director: Wai-Tat To
Stars: Rongguang Yu, Willie Chi, Siu-Ha Chan, Bing Chan Cheung, Billy Chow, Ka-Kui Ho, Fui-On Shing, Yu Tsai

Rocky, an American martial-arts student who leaves San Francisco for the famous Shaolin temple, where he proves his kung-fu prowess by dodging the abbot's mystical laser beams and performing other feats of skill. Rocky is then allowed to join the Shaolin as a student, and later helps the monks defeat a gang of thieves, led by the evil Pao, who wants to steal an invaluable Flying Horse statue from the temple.

Hong Kong
Cantonese | Mandarin
With Chinese and English hardsubs
 

четверг, 8 декабря 2016 г.

Sango Malo (1990)


Sango Malo: The Village Teacher

Director & Writer: Bassek Ba Kobhio
Stars: Jeanne Abanda, Epaye Monny Akwa, Daniel Bakang, Lucie Bekono, Massam A. Biroko, Jimmy Biyona, Jérome Bolo

Sango Malo is a tale of two school teachers and two philosophies of education. The strict headmaster insists on a conventional French-style curriculum which doesn’t challenge the village power structure. When an innovative young teacher Sang Malo (Mr. Malo) arrives, he introduces a more practical education designed to make the peasants the focus of rural development. Soon his ideas spread to the rest of the village and the peasants open a cooperative store and farm. But Malo is impatient with local customs and alienates many of his supporters. The village chief, storeowner and priest now call in the army to arrest him. But Malo has taught his lessons well, and the peasants carry on the reforms he introduced without him.

Cameroon | Burkina Faso
In French, with English subs (.srt)

среда, 7 декабря 2016 г.

Operation Third Form (1966)


Director: David Eady
Stars: Kevin Bennett, Sydney Bromley, Ronnie Caryl, Michael Crockett, John Moulder-Brown, Derren Nesbitt, George Roderick, William Sherwood, Roberta Tovey

School children save an old junk collector from being accused of a theft and prevent his partner from stealing a valuable painting.

UK, Children's Film Foundation (CFF)
In English

вторник, 6 декабря 2016 г.

Geu seome gago shibda (1993)



Geu seome gago shibda / To the Starry Island

Director: Kwang-su Park
Stars: So-young Ahn, Sung-kee Ahn, Hyung-in Choi, Woo-hyeok Choi, Jun-ho Heo, Bo-kyeong Kim, Yong-man Kim, Young-yi Lee, Kyeong-jin Min, Seong-kun Mun, Hye-jin Shim

Moon Chae-Ku and his friend Kim Chul try to bring the body of Moon's father back to his native Kwisong Island for burial. Their ferry is intercepted by resentful islanders who will not let the boat dock, because of the father's political activities in the 1950's, informing on Communist sympathizers. Kim Chul, through flashbacks, recalls people and events from his island childhood.

South Korea
In Korean, with English subs (.srt)
 

понедельник, 5 декабря 2016 г.

And Now Miguel (1953)



Director: Joseph Krumgold
Stars: Miguel Chavez

In the documentary ...And Now Miguel (1953) filmmaker Joseph Krumgold follows a real-life family of shepherds in New Mexico, the Chavezes. Narrated by the youngest Chavez son, Miguel, Krumgold shows the rituals of day-to-day life for the hard working family as they tend to the care of their sheep. Built around Miguel's desire to accompany his father on his annual summer journey into the Sangre de Cristo mountains to graze the family's sheep - a rite of passage for each of the Chavez boys--, ...And Now Miguel is a lyrical portrait of a boy's coming of age during a unique bygone era.

Documentary
USA, in English
 

пятница, 2 декабря 2016 г.

Mystery at Castle House (1982)



Director: Peter Maxwell
Stars: Simone Buchanan, Jeremy Shadlow, Scott Nicholas, Aileen Britton, Robert Geammel, Tony Lee, Henri Szeps, John Cobley, Ray Meagher, Carole Skinner, Ron Mee Lee, Robin Bowering

Three free spirited children named Spider, Kate, and Ben explore Castle House that has been abandoned for 15 years. The Castle is shrouded in intrigue as the children discover a secret tunnel that leads to clues to help them solve the mystery of Castle House.

Australia
In English

четверг, 1 декабря 2016 г.

English subs for Conseil de Famille

English subtitles for Costa-Gavras' Conseil de famille (1986) have been added.


Postel (1998)


Postel / The Bed

Director & Writer: Oskar Reif
Stars: Michal Przebinda, Antonie Fischerova, Jana Hruskova, Stanislava Jachnická, Martin Stavel, Dominika Kafunkova, Sylva Langova

Forty-year old PE teacher Luboš Urna, is a man you’d be unlikely to notice on the street. He is completely average and unremarkable, with nothing interesting or special about him at first glance. Even his life up until now seems completely ordinary; that is, until the beginning of the film. For this is when Luboš, totally unexpectedly and it could be said needlessly, dies. The moment of Luboš’s death is actually the beginning of the story, which reveals how his whole life from birth, through growing up to adulthood was a constant battle to survive in a WORLD where REAL MEN are slowly disappearing and that is more and more dominated by ALL POWERFUL WOMEN. We follow our hero through humorous, dramatic, lyrical and erotic episodes in his life, in many of which it is unclear whether they actually took place or if they are just a product of his turbulent imagination. Both the hero and filmgoers will come to a surprising realization at the end of the film.

Czech Republic
In Czech, with English subs (.srt)

понедельник, 28 ноября 2016 г.

Shanghai jiaqi (1991)


Shanghai jiaqi / My American Grandson

Director: Ann Hui
Stars: Kun-Hsuan Huang, Carina Lau, Peng Sun, Lai Wang, Wu-Ma

A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai.

Taiwan | Hong Kong
Language: Mandarin + English hardsubs

воскресенье, 27 ноября 2016 г.

Jericó (1991)



Jericó / Jericho

Director & Writer: Luis Alberto Lamata
Stars: Wilfredo Cisneros, Cosme Cortázar, Doris Díaz, Amílcar Marcano, Alexander Milic, Luis Pardi, Francis Rueda

The Venezuelan film Jerico is the fictional account of the Dominican friar Santiago who is sent by the Roman Catholic Church (against his wishes) as a missionary on a Sixteenth century Spanish expedition into the Amazon region of South America in order to bring Christianity to the indios. Santiago is appalled by the brutality of the conquistadors towards the natives. He flees the main expeditionary force with a group of Spaniards who have stolen the expedition's gold and are on a quest to find the Pacific Ocean. All the other members of the group are killed in an attack by natives, and Santiago is captured.

Venezuela
In Spanish, with English subs (.srt)

четверг, 24 ноября 2016 г.

Amahl and the Night Visitors (1978)



Director: Arvin Brown
Stars: Teresa Stratas, Robert Sapolsky, Giorgio Tozzi, Willard White, Nico Castel, Michael Lewis, Kate Castle, Peter Walker, John Terry Bates

The popular Gian Carlo Menotti opera about Amahl, a crippled boy who joins the Magi on the road to Bethlehem on the eve of the first Christmas.

USA
In English
  

вторник, 22 ноября 2016 г.

Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951)



Directors: Kirk Browning, Gian Carlo Menotti
Stars: Chet Allen, Rosemary Kuhlmann, Andrew McKinley, David Aiken, Leon Lishner, Francis Monachino, Melissa Hayden, Nicholas Magallanes, Glen Tetley

One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.
Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television from that venue as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America.

USA
In English
 

понедельник, 21 ноября 2016 г.

For the Love of Willadean (1964)



For the Love of Willadean: A Taste of Melon & Treasure in a Haunted House

Director: Byron Paul
Stars: Terry Burnham, Roger Mobley, Michael McGreevey, Billy Mumy, Ed Wynn, Barbara Eiler, John Anderson, Harry Harvey
 
Nostalgic tale of two brothers and their new neighbor, who all fight over the attentions of the pretty girl in the farmhouse down the road; the girl's name is Willadean. Prize winning watermelons and a house reputed to be haunted figure in the plot line.

Original air date - March 8, 1964 (part 1) & March 15, 1964 (part 2)

USA, Walt Disney Productions
In English
 

воскресенье, 20 ноября 2016 г.

Sto dney do prikaza (1990)



Sto dney do prikaza / 100 Days Before the Command

Director: Hussein Erkenov
Stars: Vladimir Zamanskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Oleg Vasilkov, Aleksandr Chislov, Elena Kondulaynen, Sergei Romantsov, Sergey Semyonov, Oleg Khusainov

Five young Soviet Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other. Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring, this film is Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of Communisum. Banned by the Soviet censors upon its initial release the film had to be smuggled out of the country to make its world wide premier at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival.

Soviet Union
With German & English subs 
 

суббота, 19 ноября 2016 г.

Samostoyatelnaya Zhizn (1991)


Samostoyatelnaya Zhizn / An Independent Life

Director & Writer: Vitali Kanevsky
Stars: Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Toshihiro Vatanabe, Elena Popova, Lyana Zhvaniya, M. Aleksandrov, Elena Antonenko

In this sequel to “Zamri, Umri, Voskresni!” (“Freeze, Die, Come to Life”), our hero, Valerka, now roughly 14-years-old, finds himself alive but still unable to keep out of trouble.   His female chum Galia did not fare as well, but her sister is present and develops a love/hate relationship with her sibling’s friend.   Complications arise when the boy is accused of stealing at school and again finds himself on the lam.   Very similar to its predecessor, except that it is filmed in color and concludes with a dose of surrealism.   Winner of the 1992 Grand Jury Prize Cannes Film Festival.

Russia | France
In Russian with French hardsubs + English subs (.srt) you should lift 'em up using any videoplayer, VLC and Daum PotPlayer can do it at least.

четверг, 17 ноября 2016 г.

Co slonko widzialo (2006)


Co slonko widzialo / What the Sun Has Seen

Director & Writer: Michal Rosa
Stars: Damian Hryniewicz, Dominika Kluzniak, Krzysztof Stroinski, Tomasz Sapryk, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Kinga Preis, Malgorzata Hajewska, Jan Machulski, Jan Prochyra, Rafal Mackowiak, Andrzej Mastalerz

Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.

Poland
In Polish
 

понедельник, 14 ноября 2016 г.

The Young and the Brave (1963)



Director: Francis D. Lyon
Stars: Rory Calhoun, Manuel Padilla Jr., William Bendix, Richard Jaeckel, Richard Arlen, John Agar, Robert Ivers, Dennis Richards, Robert Goshen

In this Korean War drama, three POWs escape the North Koreans and try to make it safely across enemy lines. During their flight, the soldiers encounter a young boy and his German Shepherd. The boy hates the communists because they killed his parents for sheltering American soldiers, and he offers to help the Americans escape. The journey is arduous and one of the soldiers dies. The fugitives are then joined by a victim of brainwashing. Finally they find the rescue helicopter, but the two original soldiers refuse to board until they can ensure the safety of the brave boy. They decide to take him to America, even though it means they may be court-martialed. One of the men becomes the lad's step-father.

USA
In English
 

среда, 9 ноября 2016 г.

воскресенье, 6 ноября 2016 г.

Da xia mei hua lu (1961)


Da xia mei hua lu / The Fantasy of Deer Warrior

Director: Ying Chang
Stars: Yun Ling, Hung Pai, Lin Lin, Chin-Shui Chen, Kuo-Jin Chien, Wan-Fang Chou, Lung Hsiao

The happy lives of animals in the forest are stirred by the sudden attack of a pack of wolves. The Uncle Deer comes to rescue, and asks Birdy to notify his son, the deer. Sika Deer and the Deer are fighting for the Miss Deer inextricably. When the Deer rushed to his father, the Uncle Deer has died, and he asked his son to revenge before dying.

Taiwan
Min Nan with English subs (.srt)

среда, 2 ноября 2016 г.

Gat seng gung ziu (1990)



Gat seng gung ziu / The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, Sylvia Chang, Nina Chi Li, Kun-Hsuan Huang, Lawrence Cheng, Yu Ha, Goon Chung Wong, Sun Wong, Man Huang, Sha-Fei Ouyang, Fung Woo

Remake of Eddie Murphy's "Coming To America". Bo is HK's richest man, and everyone fawns over him, nicknaming him Tycoon. He is to marry spoilt cousin Cindy, but decides to run away instead, against the advice of his faithful butler Fatso. While gatecrashing a charity concert, he is enchanted by the sister of a fast food restaurant owner, and he goes to work in the restaurant, playing at being a poor man. But Fatso tries to care for him, and his aunts want the marriage to Cindy to proceed.

Country: Hong Kong
In Cantonese & Mandarin, with English subs (in .mkv)
 

воскресенье, 30 октября 2016 г.

La Balandra Isabel Llegó Esta Tarde (1950)



La Balandra Isabel Llegó Esta Tarde / The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon

Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen
Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Néstor Zavarce, Virginia Luque, América Barrio, Juana Sujo, Tomás Henríquez, Juan Corona, Luis Galíndez

The captain of a small vessel regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland has two separate and very different relationships. At home he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. He also has a young son Juan who aspires to become his father's cabin boy. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret...

Venezuela
In Spanish, with English subs (.srt)

четверг, 27 октября 2016 г.

Premier Noël (1999)


Premier Noël / First Christmas

Director & Writer: Kamel Cherif
Stars: Bechir Neffati, Cécile Auclert, Alberto Bimbocci, Harold Cartier, Yolande Moreau, Marcel Champel, Kamel Cherif, Philippe Khorsand

A Tunisian family, who comes to settle in France in the 1960’s, arrives just before Christmas. At school, little Rafik learns about Father Christmas. He tells his family, and everyone awaits their presents in great excitement. But nobody gets any presents, and a vengeful hunt for Father Christmas begins on the waste grounds and around the town.

France | Tunisia
In French and some Arabic, with English subs (.srt) only for Arabic parts
 

среда, 26 октября 2016 г.

Burl's (2003)


Director: Maryam Karimi
Stars: Mark Hamill (narrator), Chandler Kane Kelly, John de Lancie, Marnie Mosiman, Jerry Hardin, Jack Riley, Mookie Barker, Jarid Gibbs, Christian Reeve

When a young boy encounters three drag queens outside Burl's Diner in L.A. he decides that perhaps its time he checked out Mom's closet.

Short
USA, in English
 

понедельник, 24 октября 2016 г.

The Salvage Gang (1958)


Director: John Krish
Stars: Christopher Warbey, Ali Allen, Mandy Harper, Frazer Hines, Richard Molinas, Robin Ford, Charles Lamb, Charles Ross, Bay White, Keith Pyott, Wilfrid Brambell

Four children try to raise money to replace a broken saw, taking them on an unexpected journey through London.

UK, Children's Film Foundation (CFF)
In English

среда, 19 октября 2016 г.

вторник, 18 октября 2016 г.

Los peloteros (1951)


Los peloteros / The Ball Players

Director: Jack Delano
Stars: Ramón Rivero, Miriam Colon, José Manuel Matos, Amilcar Tirado, Perín Vázquez, Narciso Cobián, Daniel Colón, Celso Alvarado, Juan B. Figueroa, Raúl Colón, Escolástico Colón, Bolivar Rosado

A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league, but their parents are unable to help them, so they learn about collaborative work and initiative. And also get a few lessons in disappointment in the process. One of the key films of the government-backed Divedco program of the 1940s and 1950s, this is also a referential staple of Puerto Rican cinema.

Puerto Rico
In Spanish
 

воскресенье, 16 октября 2016 г.

La Falaise (1998)


La Falaise / The Cliff

Director: Faouzi Bensaïdi 
Stars: Adil Halouach, Mehdi Halouach, Mohammed El Warradi
 
For Hakim and his little brother Said, the day unfurls at its own pace. First at the cemetary where they whitewash a tomb, then at the blind wine seller's place. Then to the cliff, where several empty bottles could make the fortune of these children... La Falaise is a first film for Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaidi who also wrote this story without dialogue.

Short
Morocco, some words in Arabic, no dialogues - no translation needed
 

среда, 12 октября 2016 г.

Ya Koo (1985)


Director: Franco Rubartelli
Stars: Jose Gregorio Payema, Arantza Fuentes, Emilio Fuentes, Flor Núñez

Pepiwe (played by Jose Gregorio Payema) is a Yanomami boy living in a Catholic mission. After getting into an argument with his teacher about the name of his river (she says Rio Siapa; he calls it Periquitos), Pepiwe decides to return to the jungle to look for his family. He paddles down the Orinoco with his dog and parrot, and during a stopover on land he meets yet another nun (Flor Núñez), but not one from his mission. She pays the boy to show him the way to San Carlos de Rio Negro (by the Colombian border). He reluctantly agrees, but after a day's journey the nun tries to sneak away and loses the canoe. Ya-Koo has elements of a road movie with comically mismatched traveling companions, and the two leads have great chemistry, but it is much more than that. When we see Pepiwe in his own element, wise in his own jungle, feeding and caring for both himself and the lost nun in the beautiful and deadly rain forest, we feel that an entire culture and way of life is being celebrated. And also, perhaps, mourned. Ya-Koo is the Tupi word for good-bye.

Venezuela
In Spanish
 

понедельник, 10 октября 2016 г.

Dyo ilioi ston ourano (1991)


Δυο ηλιοι στον ουρανο / Dyo ilioi ston ourano / Two Suns in the Sky

Director & Writer: Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos
Stars: Piotr Fronczewski, Benoit Roussel, Katerina Razelou, Nikiforos Naneris, Giorgos Armenis, Panos Thanassoulis, Katerina Didaskalou, Giorgos Kyritsis

A young child brings conflict between a pagan community and an early Christian one.

Greece | Cyprus | France
In Greek, with English hardsubs
 

воскресенье, 9 октября 2016 г.

Le neveu du peintre (1989)


Le neveu du peintre / The Painter's Nephew

Director: Moustapha Dao
Cast: Oumarou Kabore

Eleven-year-old Ali lives in a little village in Burkina Faso. The hare, the hyena and the imp (little masked characters) live in the magical world that Ali’s grandmother invents for him. To reward him for his good school results, Ali’s father sends him on a trip to the big city. What he finds there frightens him, and he is glad to return to the village and his grandmother’s stories.

Burkina Faso
Language: Mooré, with English subs (.srt)
 

четверг, 6 октября 2016 г.

À nous la rue (1987)


À nous la rue / The Street is Ours!

Director & Writer: Moustapha Dao
Stars: Oumar Konange, Awa Ouedraogo, Ludovic Ouedraogo, Rose Sare, Tiemoko Kone Kone Vié

The film shows what 6 to 10-year-olds typically do outdoors after school, some of it clearly preparation for adult roles.
  
Short
Burkina Faso
Language: Mooré and Dyula with French hardsubs + English subs (.srt)

среда, 5 октября 2016 г.

A Balinese Family (1952)

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Directors: Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson

Another anthropological film by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson that is part of their series "Character Formation in Different Cultures"; a study of a Balinese family showing the way in which father and mother treat the three younger children - the lap baby, the knee baby, and the child nurse.

Documentary short
USA, in English
 

вторник, 4 октября 2016 г.

The Children Were Watching (1961)


Director: Richard Leacock

The first week of school integration in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Violent demonstrations of hatred by white parents as their children looked on.

Documentary
USA, in English, with English subs (.srt)
 

четверг, 29 сентября 2016 г.

Paperboys (2001)



Director: Mike Mills
Boys: Donny Foster, Greg Gonisor, Nick Judkins, Brandon Kindschy, Andrew Merton, Tyler Rowen

This documentary profiles six paperboys from Stillwater, Minnesota. They invite director Mike Mills into their homes, show him their personal effects, and answer questions about their lives and the future of paperboys. Parents weigh in on the benefits of their children's job and share thoughts on how the city has changed over the years. Mills's camera follows the boys on their routes, and the elegiac footage is accented with contemporary music.

Short, documentary
USA, in English