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The Pleasure of Sin

December 1964 •Persian

A deaf and dumb girl in a village is raped by a man, becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby. Jabbar later marries the village headman's daughter but his wife can't get pregnant. Therefore, he wants to get the baby for himself and his wife.

White God

June 2014 •Hungarian

13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen, and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to save her dog. Failing in his desperate efforts to find his beloved owner, Hagen joins a canine revolt leading a revolution against their human abusers.

On Wheels

April 2017 •Portuguese

13-year-old Lucas makes a new friend in his classmate Lais, and joins her on an epic journey to find the father she has never known.

Redemption

February 2020 •English

In quest of freedom a young and petite girl, Zoya runs away from her over-protective and domineering father and then has to overcome an insane family of abductors, liars and rapists.

Reveille

July 1917 •Swedish

Countess Hedvig von Wärnfelt (born Wärnfelt), receives her orphan's granddaughter Marianne to educate her in tukt and her reverence. Marianne is an iron and vibrant young girl, who also carries theater grills. The Countess is staggered over her uneducated facials and treats her severely, hard and joyless.

The Girl

February 2009 •Swedish

Story of a ten-year-old girl left alone in her house in the summer of 1981.

Turnaround

November 2015 •Finnish

A 12-year-old girl goes on a car ride with a man she met online to prove she is not a child anymore.

Tree of Knowledge

November 1981 •Danish

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

Revue Starlight: The Movie

June 2021 •Japanese

The stage emulates life and compresses it, setting free skills learned over lifetimes in brief but dazzling displays for the amusement and judgment of others. For the performers, it is the ultimate risk, and some will rise while others must fall. Nowhere is this truer than at the Seisho Music Academy, where music, dance and real weapons all come into play in the creation of the next great Star. Karen and Hikari’s destinies have been linked since a childhood promise, but their journeys here have taken very different paths. Now, after Hikari leaves, Karen must discover who she is without her opposite, while Hikari must rediscover her own course. Nor are they the only girls who must reassess and change if they want to achieve their dreams, as the dance, magic, and swordplay continue!

Of Love and Other Demons

March 2009 •Spanish

Based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel, this is the unsettling story of 13-year-old noble Sierva and the dog bite that changes her life forever. Abandoned, displaced, in the midst of a sexual awakening and finally exorcised, Sierva finds an unlikely ally in a young priest and together they discover passion.

La vispa Teresa

December 1939 •Italian

La vispa Teresa (“Lively Theresa”) is based on a well known song; a girl, ten, catches a butterfly and all the other insects intervene to save it.

The Greening of Whitney Brown

November 2011 •English

Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided journey back to her old life, only to discover that her family is her home.

Der Willi-Busch-Report

April 1980 •German

Life on the border to the GDR is as dreary as the "Werra-Post". To increase circulation, Willi Busch, reporter and heir to the local paper, takes action: sometimes he demolishes telephone boxes, sometimes he fantasizes a child into a prophetess who talks to sheep. Only when he fakes a dead man's past as an informer does Willi's paper corpses suddenly become real...

How to hold a cloud to the ground

July 2019 •Portuguese

When she arrives in a new world, Isabela is tasked with discovering her true essence. Watched by Shadow, the guardian of this ghostly place, Isabela meets other travelers and reevaluates her memories, relationships and emotions.

I Am Maria

December 1979 •Swedish

A story about a strange friendship between 11-year-old Maria and an older man Jon.

Mr. Skeffington

May 1944 •English

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

The Getting of Wisdom

August 1977 •English

Based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. A young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.

Rao Saheb

January 1985 •Hindi

Adaptation of a literary work on the slow deterioration of an orthodox family, where the women are unable to achieve emancipation and the men succumb to insanity.

ANA

August 2017 •Spanish

Hugo and Josephine

December 1967 •Swedish

Josefin is a six year old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. She has no friends until she meets Hugo. He is a carefree boy who'd rather walk in the forest than go to school. Together with the gardener, they make up fun things to do.