Short Stories 3: About a Boy
Boys will be boys, but boys also have to grow up. These films show boys and a young man in their most vulnerable years.
In this combined programme
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Arena
Golden Palm winner at Cannes in 2009 is superbly shot, unemphatic drama about a man under house arrest, occupied by tattooing.
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Le début de l’hiver
A remarkable young actor features in this terrifying sketch of a boy hitchhiking home from school in the French countryside.
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Dans le sang
Convincingly acted story about the aimlessness of violence. War veteran in Beirut teaches a lesson to his fanatical son, who threatens to take the
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Sundown
Charming and moving drama about rite of passage of thirteen-year-old boy living on Rhodes, who sees his experiment with a stray cat get out of hand
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