Forum Cinema Paradiso

Rare and forgotten films, children in cinema, films about the first love and growing up.


 

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

바비 / Ba-bi / Barbie. 2011. FULL-HD.

바비 / Ba-bi / Barbie. 2011. FULL-HD.
Soon-Young (Kim Sae-Ron) is a young girl who is the head of her family. She lives with her mentally handicapped father (Jo Yong-Suk), unscrupulous uncle (Lee Chun-Hee) and younger sister Soon-Ja (Kim Ah-Ron) who is always ill. Younger sister Soon-Ja plays with her Barbie doll everyday and dreams of one day living in the United States. Meanwhile, Mang-Taek comes into contact with an American man interested in adopting a healthy Korean girl. Mang-Taek arranges a deal for the American man to adopt Soon-Young. When her younger sister Soon-Ja hears of the adoption, she becomes jealous and asks to take the place of her older sister. When the American man and his young daughter arrive to take Soon-Young, the uncle, Soong-Young and Soon-Ja must decide who is to go. The American father has an ulterior motive for the adoption.
Filming took place from May 21 to June 6, 2011 in Pohang, South Korea.
Movie will screen at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival and has been submitted to the 2011 Venice Film Festival.
Director: Sang-woo Lee.
Cast: Kim Ah-Ron, Sae-ron Kim, Cheon-hee Lee, Cat Tebo, Earl Jackson, Yong-Seok Cho.
South Korea, 2011.
Language: Korean.
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Monday, April 25, 2022

Cider with Rosie. 1971. HD.

Cider with Rosie. 1971. HD.
 A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Helen Thornhill and Rosemary Leach star in this classic BBC drama, based on novel by Laurie Lee. Set in post-war Gloucestershire in a sleepy Cotswold village, dreamy days spent sampling Granny Wallon (Mary Merrall)'s homebrew gives way to a darker vision of country life. As a young boy suffers at the hands of a sadistic teacher, happiness soon arrives as he then experiences his first love with the precocious Rosie (Thornhill).
Director: Claude Whatham.
Cast: Rosemary Leach, Stephen Grendon, Philip Hawkes, Frances Lee, Tania Robinson, Louisa Martin, Peter Chandler, Andrew Webber, Jonathan Green, Frances Lee, Trevor Bannister, Louisa Martin, Elizabeth Matthews, Tracy Tompkins.
UK, 1971.
Language: English, German.
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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Weiße Kreide für Franziska. 1989. HD.

Weiße Kreide für Franziska. 1989. HD.
 DE. Franziska (Manja Lucke) ist ein aufgewecktes Mädchen, das schon sehnsüchtig auf ihre Einschulung wartet. Wenige Wochen, bevor das große Ereignis stattfinden soll, erfahren sie und ihre Eltern, dass Franziska aus gesundheitlichen Gründen (schwere Hörstörungen) die Schule vorerst nicht besuchen kann. Die Handlung des Films schildert im weiteren, wie Franziska unter diesen Umständen in ihrem jungen Leben zurechtkommt und wie Eltern und Freunde ihr in dieser schwierigen Situation helfen, ihre Krankheit zu akzeptieren.
Und dazu hat Franziska ja auch einen “Leidensgenossen”: das ist Kaiser Franz, ein junger Storch, der beim Versuch zu fliegen abstürzte. Zusammen mit Opa Gruhn (Günter Naumann) kümmert sie sich rührend um das Tier, weil es nun nicht mit den anderen nach Afrika fliegen kann.
EN. Franziska (Manja Lucke) is a bright girl who is eagerly awaiting her school enrollment. A few weeks before the big event is to take place, she and her parents learn that Franziska can not attend school for health reasons (severe hearing impairment) for the time being. The plot of the film also describes how Franziska can cope with her young life under these circumstances and how her parents and friends help her to accept her illness in this difficult situation.
And Franziska also has a "fellow sufferer": that is Emperor Franz, a young stork who crashed while trying to fly. Together with Grandpa Gruhn (Günter Naumann), she takes care of the animal because it can not fly to Africa with the others.
Director: Karola Hattop.
Cast: Günter Naumann, Waltraud Kramm, Manja Lucke, Frank Metzger, Heike Meyer, Martin Stierand, Verena Stolle, Horst Weinheimer.
DDR, DEFA, 1989.
Language: German.
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Friday, April 22, 2022

Yaaba / Grandmother. 1989. FULL-HD.

Yaaba / Grandmother. 1989. FULL-HD.
Yaaba is a 1989 Burkinabé drama film written, produced, and directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo. It won the Sakura Gold prize at the 1989 Tokyo Film Festival. The film was selected as the Burkinabé entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The film was the subject of a short documentary Parlons Grand-mère, which was shot during the film's production by Djibril Diop Mambéty.
In a small African village, Bila (Noufou Ouédraogo), a ten-year-old boy, makes friends with an old woman called Sana (Fatimata Sanga), who has been accused of witchcraft by her village, and has become a social outcast. Only Bila is respectful of her, and calls her "Yaaba" (Grandmother).
When Bila's cousin, Nopoko (Roukietou Barry), falls ill, a medicine man insists that Sana has stolen the girl's soul. Sana undergoes a long and gruelling but ultimately successful journey to find a medicine to save Nopoko's life, but is still treated as a witch.
After Sana dies, the real reason why she is hated in the village is uncovered, but the love and wisdom she invested in Bila and Nopoko lives on.
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo.
Cast: Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo, Amadé Toure, Sibidou Ouédraogo, Adame Sidibe, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Kinda Moumouni, Assita Ouedraogo.
Burkina Faso, Switzerland, France. West Germany, 1989.
Language: Mòoré.
Subtitles: English, German.
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Thursday, April 21, 2022

Princess. 2014. FULL-HD.

Princess. 2014. FULL-HD.
Princess is a 2014 Israeli drama film directed and written by Tali Shalom Ezer. It is Ezer's first feature film. Shira Haas stars as Adar, a 12-year-old girl whose close relationship with her mother's boyfriend becomes sexually abusive. Princess premiered at the 2014 Jerusalem Film Festival.
While her workaholic mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar and her stepfather push their role-playing games into dangerous territory. As Adar attempts to delicately maneuver between the tempestuous and fiery relationships at home, she meets Alan - a dreamy boy who keenly resembles her, and brings him into the family. Alan leads Adar through a dark journey between childhood and adolescence, reality and fantasy, which will forever change the rules of the game in the household.
Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer.
Cast: Shira Haas, Keren Mor, Ori Pfeffer, Adar Zohar-Hanetz, Amitay Yaish Benuosilio, Shimon Mimran, Ariel Wizman.
Israel, 2014.
Language: Hebrew.
Subtitles: English.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Jutro będzie lepiej / Tomorrow Will Be Better. 2010. HD.

Jutro będzie lepiej / Tomorrow Will Be Better. 2010. HD.
PL. Trzech bezdomnych chłopców, dwaj bracia i ich kolega, mieszka na rosyjskim dworcu kolejowym. Pewnego dnia postanawiają wyruszyć w poszukiwaniu lepszego jutra. Chcą przejść przez zieloną granicę do Polski, aby znaleźć wszystko to, czego do tej pory nie mieli - dom, przyjaciół, szczęście...
EN. Six-year-old named Petya (Oleg Ryba), his brother Vasya (Jewgieni Ryba), and their friend Liapa (Akhmed Saralov) travel overland with dreams of a better life in Poland and the hope that tomorrow will be better. They learn they must rely on each other to find their new home.
Director: Dorota Kędzierzawska.
Cast: Oleg Ryba, Jewgienij Ryba, Akhmed Sardalov, Stanisław Sojka, Aleksandra Billewicz, Zygmunt Gorodowienko, Kinga Walenkiewicz, Antoni Łanczkowski, Maria Cichonczyk, Aleksander Sawicki.
Poland, 2010.
Language: Russian, Polish.
Subtitles: English.
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Jutro będzie lepiej / Tomorrow Will Be Better. 2010. HD.


 

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Silence / Dans le Silence. 2013. FULL-HD.

Silence / Dans le Silence. 2013. FULL-HD.
'Silence', the debut feature-length film by artist and filmmaker Michael Salerno, is an intimate portrait of the life of a ten year old girl as an intense storm is about to descend upon her city.
Director: Michael Salerno.
Cast: Clovis Fouin, Christèle Cervelle, Carla Ferrer-Casanova, Dylan Soultan, Laurent Claret, Diego Mestanza, Marcus Whale, O.B. De Alessi, Quentin Caron.
France, 2013.
Language: French.
Subtitles: English.
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Monday, April 18, 2022

Memoirs of a Survivor. 1981.

Memoirs of a Survivor. 1981.
Memoirs of a Survivor is a 1981 British science fiction film directed by David Gladwell, with some scenes filmed at the location of Argyle Street, Norwich. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Doris Lessing.
'D' is a chronicler of a society in chaos, who looks down on the marauding gangs, and rubbish-strewn streets from the fortress prison of her flat. Buffeted by inner dreams and longings, D finds an alternative world by stepping through the wall of her flat, like Alice through the Looking Glass. Here it is Victorian England, the bosom of an unsettled family, harbingers, perhaps, of the decay to come. She flits between the two sides of her double life, always observing, never participating, and watches as her protégé, Emily, becomes involved with vagrants' leader Gerald and their efforts to control the violent scavengers fail.
Director: David Gladwell.
Cast: Julie Christie, Christopher Guard, Leonie Mellinger, Debbie Hutchings, Nigel Hawthorne, Pat Keen, Georgina Griffiths, Christopher Tsangarides, Mark Dignam, Alison Dowling, John Franklyn-Robbins, Barbara Hicks, John Comer.
UK, 1981.
Language: English.
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Saturday, April 16, 2022

Little Canyon. 2008. HD.

Little Canyon. 2008. HD.
Greta's dad is moving the family cross-country, promising a California paradise and packing half the household into a dented station wagon. All that's missing is Mom. As they travel through forest, plains and desert, stopping at fast food joints, shoddy motels, and a poor substitute for the Grand Canyon, Greta gradually realizes that her family is falling apart.
Director: Olivia Silver.
Cast: Tessa Allen, Kevin Jacobsen, Aaron Refvem, Kendall Toole.
USA, 2008.
Language: English.
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Little Canyon. 2008. HD.
Little Canyon. 2008. HD.

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Balavica / Little Darling. 2013. FULL-HD.

Balavica / Little Darling. 2013. FULL-HD.
Two kids on top of a skyscraper, and a view of the sea. He is Tom Sawyer and she is Alice in Wonderland. Treading towards the edge and doing everything they shouldn't. In this hot summer, left under her grandma's charge, she will feel what love is for the first time in her life.
Director: Igor Mirković.
Cast: Đana Gudelj, Marko Boljat, Slavica Jukic, Petra Barbaric, Franko Jakovcevic.
Croatia, Slovenia, 2013.
Language: Croatian.
Subtitles: English.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Quelque part vers Conakry / Somewhere Near Conakry. 1992. HD.

Quelque part vers Conakry / Somewhere Near Conakry. 1992. HD.
1971: Guinea, thirteen years after independence. A revolutionary storm is brewing on the streets of the city of Fria. Somewhere near Conakry - Children play, far from the adults' worries. The gigantic land stretches from the savanna to the marshes. In this mosaic of people in conflict, Jacques leads his warriors though an Africa that has been torn apart, where only children and the elderly have kept a innocent look in their eyes. Beyond the taboos and laws governing the country, Jacques and Madiou, the little African boy, will experience the trial of friendship and parting.
Director: Françoise Ebrard.
Cast: Damien MacDonald, Ibrahim Oury Bah, Pascal N'Zonzi, Philippe Jutteau, Ioana Craciunescu, Delphine Rich, Abdoulaye Diallo, Madame Kake, Pierre Bouchet.
France, 1992.
Language: French.
Subtitles: English.
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Quelque part vers Conakry / Somewhere Near Conakry. 1992. HD.


 

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Penfield. 2011. HD.

Penfield. 2011. HD.
A very laconic atmospheric Spanish short film like a Picasso painting.
Is Penfield a place? No, no such place exists. A person then? No. There is no such person.- Is it perhaps a sensation?... Something like irritation in a member that already does not exist.
Director: Isabel de Ayguavives.
Cast: Sonia Madrid, Miriam Martín.
Spain, 2011.
Language: Spanish.
Subtitles: English.
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Penfield. 2011. HD.

Penfield. 2011. HD.

 

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Lust och fägring stor / All Things Fair / Love Lessons. 1995. FULL-HD.

Lust och fägring stor / All Things Fair / Love Lessons. 1995. FULL-HD.
All Things Fair (Swedish: Lust och fägring stor, literally "Great Lust and Beauty") is a Swedish drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 3 November 1995. Written and directed by Bo Widerberg, the film is about a sexual relationship between a teacher and her 15-year-old student in southern Sweden during World War II. Bo Widerberg's son Johan Widerberg stars as the boy Stig and Marika Lagercrantz plays his teacher Viola. The original title is taken from the Swedish hymn "Den blomstertid nu kommer", which is traditionally sung in schools before closing for the summer holiday.
It was the last film to be made by Widerberg. It won several domestic and international awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Malmö, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity. She is drawn to him by his youth and innocence. At the same time, Stig becomes friends with Viola's husband Kjell, who teaches him classical music, and the affair continues even after he understands that he has a relationship with his wife. but does nothing to prevent it. But Stig and Viola's passionate and forbidden relationship will have consequences they never could have expected.
Director: Bo Widerberg.
Cast: Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Tomas von Brömssen, Karin Huldt, Nina Gunke, Björn Kjellman, Kenneth Milldoff, Frida Lindholm, Sigge Cederlund, George Bisset, Per Olov Börjeson, Jörgen Svensson.
Denmark, Sweden, 1995.
Language: Swedish, German.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Menuet / Minuet. 1982. HD.

Menuet / Minuet. 1982. HD.
Menuet is a 1982 Belgian-Dutch drama film directed by Lili Rademakers. The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
A young husband and wife live at close quarters in a small industrial town, where he works in the basement of a brewery, but she has designs on moving up in the world. The husband is fixated on keeping clippings of news stories about bizarre crimes and accidents - stories that are visually portrayed alongside the ordinary family dynamics. Aside from the young couple, a 14-year-old girl is there to help out with the household chores, and her detached spying on all covert activities (she observes the wife being raped by the brother-in-law) has a chilling undertone. Meanwhile, the morbid side of the husband draws him to the 14-year-old, and desires that had been dormant begin to surface. The couple, their relatives, and the domestic certainly seem trapped in a labyrinth that has no end.
Movie was based on the book "Menuet en andere verhalen" written by the Flemish novellist Louis Paul Boon, on which book the movie Daens (1992) was also based.
Director: Lili Rademakers.
Cast: Akkemay, Lydia Billiet, Theu Boermans, Dirk Celis, Herman Coessens, Juliette Van de Sompel, Juliette De Witte, Katrien Devos, Hubert Fermin, Dany Geys, Carla Hardy, Viviane de Muynck, Ingrid Pollet, Jenny Tanghe, Karin Jacobs.
Belgium, Netherlands, 1982.
Language: Dutch.
Subtitles: English.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Robinsonka / Robinson Girl. 1974. FULL-HD.

Robinsonka / Robinson Girl. 1974. FULL-HD.
CZ. Je léto a čtrnáctiletá Blaženka Borová (M. Šafránková) tráví s několika kamarádkami bezstarostné prázdniny na táboře, když je její pobyt nečekaně ukončen. Tatínek (P. Kostka), který si pro ni přijel, nese radostnou novinu – narodil se jí bráška Petřík. Jenže vzápětí se Bláža dovídá, že maminka bohužel zaplatila cenu nejvyšší. Život jde i přes nesmírný zármutek dál: Petřík zatím zůstává v kojeneckém ústavu, táta pokračuje ve své profesi taxikáře a náhle dospělá Blaženka přebírá maminčinu roli v domácnosti. Učí se vařit, prát, nakupovat. Najednou jí připadá spousta věcí neznámá, nepřátelská, a tak si vytvoří svůj imaginární svět osamělého Robinsona Crusoa, který jí pomáhá tyto překážky zdolat. A vedle chápavého taťky je tady i hodná a milá sousedka Tonička (J. Obermaierová), která jí podá pomocnou ruku a pomáhá jí v domácnosti. I spolužák Jarda (V. Dlouhý) si všimne, jak to Blažence sluší, a velmi rád ji učí jezdit na kole, které se teď stává dívčiným toužebným, ale nedostupným přáním. Měsíce ubíhají a je tu předvánoční čas, první bez maminky. Blaženka navíc velmi onemocní. Nakonec se ale vše v dobré obrátí…
EN. Like the literary character Robinson Crusoe from the book written by Daniel Defoe, Blazenka likes to imagine she is on a desolate island and has to find a way how to survive. After the death of her mother she stays together with her baby brother and has to take care of the family. In this difficult situation, she plays this role-game that helps her to deal with the sudden loss of her mother.
Kachyna again uses poetic images with symbols to present the inner world of the teenage girl (such as scene when he shows the girl lying in the bed with the horizon of an open sea to signify not only her loneliness and desolation, but also the presence of death or more exactly the world of dead symbolized by the sea).
Director: Karel Kachyňa.
Cast: Miroslava Šafránková, Petr Kostka, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Vladimír Dlouhý, Marie Horáková, Jitka Vitnerová, Zdena Lacinová, Věra Bublíková, Vilma Ascherlová, Renata Borová, Zdeněk Martínek, Jaroslav Heyduk, František Hanzlík, Vladimír Pospíšil, Ladislav Gzela, Otakar Brousek ml., Miroslav Chorvát, Eduard Pavlíček, Jan Šenfluk, Zlata Adamovská.
Czechoslovakia, 1974.
Language: Czech.
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