среда, 29 мая 2013 г.

Margelle (2012)


Margelle / On the Edge
Director & Writer: Omar Mouldouira
Stars: Touria Alaoui, Hamza Alkaoui, Oussama Bahouane

In Boujaâd, a Moroccan town where ancient myths and legends are rife, seven-year-old Karim, the only son of his modest parents struggles with his childhood fears and his urgent desire to be a man.

Arabic, with English subs (.srt) + French hardsubs

вторник, 28 мая 2013 г.

Kinobilletten (1995)


Kinobilletten / The Cinema Ticket

Director: Gunnar Vikene
Stars: Marius Lund, Kjell Stormoen, Karin Hox

A little boy struggles to get money to buy his first cinema ticket. He gets a job, but the shopkeeper is stingy.

Norway
Short, with no dialogues

суббота, 25 мая 2013 г.

Letayuschij korabl / The Flying Ship (1961)


Letayuschij korabl / The Flying Ship

Directors: Artur Vojtetsky, Mikhail Yuferov
Stars: Igor Yershov, Susanna Jurtschenko, Larisa Gordeichik

Ukrainian folk tale. The hero of the story, Kotigoroschko sets off on an arduous journey to find his sister Olenka, who has been kidnapped by an evil dragon.

Soviet Union (Ukraine - Dovzhenko Film Studios)
In Russian

пятница, 24 мая 2013 г.

Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)


Director: Ray Enright
Stars: Claire Trevor, Jess Barker, Edgar Buchanan, Scotty Beckett

Oliver Yates, a well-respected teacher at Carlyle Military Academy, realizes that he is losing the admiration of his pupils, who are disappointed that he has not quit teaching to enlist in the military. Yates asks Colonel Fredericks, the head of the school, to waive his essential status so that he can enlist, but Fredericks tells him that teaching is just as important as fighting, particularly when someone like Jimmy Dixon is depending upon him. Jimmy, a former juvenile delinquent, is now Yates's protege, and Yates is determined to see that Jimmy makes the most of his opportunities at Carlyle.

In English
 

среда, 22 мая 2013 г.

Operation Haylift (1950)


Director: William Berke
Stars: Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford, Tom Brown, Tommy Ivo

The winter of 1948-1949 was the worst in the Western United States since 1889. In Northern Nevada, millions of sheep and cattle were stranded in deep snowdrifts without feed, sometimes accompanied by herders and their horses and mules. Ranch houses were snowed in, as well. The U.S. Air Force deployed its pilots and cargo planes, C82 "Flying Boxcars" for a project called "Operation Haylift" to drop 525 tons of alfalfa in the first seven days, feeding a million sheep and 100,000 head of cattle in Northern Nevada and Utah.

USA
In English

понедельник, 20 мая 2013 г.

Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure (1999)


Director: Stephen Furst
Stars: Harvey Korman, Joseph Bologna, David L. Lander, Michael Angarano

In this live-action musical comedy, Baby Huey, the lovable seven foot tall duckling, is taken in by a caring little boy named Nick and his kind but surprised family. A sinister scientist and a mean Las Vegas producer want Baby Huey for themselves, but they don't know what a little boy, a caring community, and a baby bird that's bigger than all of them is capable of.

USA
In English

пятница, 17 мая 2013 г.

Le petit poucet (1972)


Le petit poucet / Tom Thumb

Director: Michel Boisrond
Stars: Marie Laforêt, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Luc Bideau, Titoyo (Jean-Christophe Maillot) as Poucet, Marianne Ridoret

Classic fairy-tale story about Tom Thumb against Giant. Parents are poor and want to leave Tom Thumb in forest. But Tom Thumb is clever and marks his way by stones. Second time he is unsuccessful - he has only bread-crumbs and birds eat them. Tom Thumb finds a Giant and a beautiful princess in his entrapment, and is determined to free the princess.

France
French, with English subs (.srt)

четверг, 16 мая 2013 г.

Sessiz - Be Deng (2012)


Sessiz - Be Deng / Silent

Director & Writer: L. Rezan Yesilbas
Stars: Belçim Bilgin, Cem Bender

The prison of Diyarbakir, the setting of the story, is like the symbol of the torture experienced in the prisons in Turkey after the coup d'etat of 1980. However, in this story, I did not choose to tell the things that took place in the prison, or the political prisoners or the torture, or the political fight. Instead, I turned my camera to the little stories of the "silent" women outside the prison, who could not speak another language than Kurdish, which was forbidden in the prisons of that era.

Short
Kurdish, with English hardsubs

среда, 15 мая 2013 г.

Professional Soldier (1935)


Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew, Gloria Stuart

In a mythical European country, a rugged soldier-of-fortune is hired to kidnap King Peter so that a new political party can take control, but the young King is in favor of the scheme because it will allowed him to get away and have fun without any of the royal responsibilities.

USA
In English

понедельник, 13 мая 2013 г.

No Short Cut (1964)


Director & Writer: Anthony Simmons
Stars: Peter Hawkins, Lane Meddick

Jimmy and Les get new bikes... but do they know how to ride them safely? The story of Jimmy, who conscientiously takes the National Cycling Proficiency Scheme test, and Leslie, who suffers a series of mishaps through his own negligence.

Short
In English
 

воскресенье, 12 мая 2013 г.

Rvanye bashmaki (1933)


Рваные башмаки / Rvanye bashmaki / Broken Shoes / Torn Shoes

Director: Margarita Barskaya
Stars: Mikhail Klimov, Klavdiya Polovikova, Mme. Alehina

The first sound film for children “Torn Shoes” was released in 1933 and won the world audience. The author of the film Margarita Barskaya was proclaimed the leading director of child cinema. In 1937 her name was taken off the Soviet cinematography.

Soviet Union
In Russian

суббота, 11 мая 2013 г.

Robbie (1979)


Director & Writer: Ronald Dunkley
Stars: Keith Chegwin, Robin Crane, Gary Forbes

Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for some reason. His laces become caught on the tracks and he has an accident so serious that he will never play football again. A film for showing to eight to eleven-year old children and their parents, which points out the folly of breaking railway fences and trespassing on the line, and illustrates the immediate dangers.

Documentary, short
In English
 

вторник, 7 мая 2013 г.

Pojktanten (2012)


Pojktanten / She Male Snails

Director & Writer: Ester Martin Bergsmark
Stars: Ester Martin Bergsmark, Varg Holmdahl, Eli Levén

This film weaves intimate bath time conversations between Ester Martin Bergsmark and the writer Eli Levén together with the story of the Boy Hag – a fantasy world that centres on a person caught between two genders who creates a third in order to survive.

In Swedish, with English subs (.srt)

воскресенье, 5 мая 2013 г.

Il sole dentro (2012)


The Bright Flight / Il sole dentro

Director & Writer: Paolo Bianchini
Stars: Angela Finocchiaro, Gaetano Fresa, Fallou Kama

Yaguine and Fodé, two Guinean boys, wrote – on the behalf of every child and boy from Africa – a letter to "Their Excellences the members and officials of Europe". In this letter, they’re asking help to have schools, food, medicines, "as your sons that you love like your own life". With their letter in their pocket, Yaguine and Fodè hide themselves inside the undercarriage of a plane directed to Brussels and, in this way, their long travel of hope – from Africa to Europe – begins. Ten years later, another journey, in the opposite direction – from Europe to Africa – made by other two boys, Thabo and Rocco. Thabo, 13 years-old, comes from N’Dola, an African village, and he wants to go back there, with his friend Rocco, 14 years-old, from Catania. The boys are victims of the kid football players market from which they escaped.

Italian +  Italian subs (.srt) + English subs (.srt) by YRR

среда, 1 мая 2013 г.

Le premier homme (2011)


Le premier homme / The First Man

Director: Gianni Amelio
Stars: Michel Crémadès, Jacques Gamblin, Mickaël Batret, Nino Jouglet, Ulla Baugue

Based on an autobiographical book by Albert Camus, "Le Premier Homme" film follows Jean Cormery (Jacques Gamblin) the alter ego of the famed philosopher and journalist, on his return to Algeria in the late 1950s. He is back to visit his mother (Catherine Sola) to whom he is attached, reconnect with his past and trace stories of his father.

France
In French, with English subs (embed)