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1. Bastards (Svolochi) (2006), Russian war film directed by Aleksandr Atanesyan. In Soviet Russia, 1943, a group of teenage convicts are secretly trained for a guerrilla mission to stop the actions of a German army group called "Edelweiss." |
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2. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback. |
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3. Central Station (Central do Brasil) (1998), Brazilian-French drama film set in Brazil directed by Walter Salles. An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the father he never knew. |
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4. Fat Girl (À ma soeur!) (2001), France, Italy, drama film directed by Catherine Breillat. Fat Girl is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. |
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5. Children of Heaven (Bacheha-Ye aseman) (1997), Iranian family drama film written and directed by Majid Majidi. It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes. |
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6. Ma Vie En Rose (1997), Belgian film directed by Alain Berliner. It tells the story of Ludovic, a child who was born male but consistently insists that he is supposed to be a girl. |
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7. Glue (2006), Argentine, UK, written and directed by Alexis Dos Santos. A teenage story in the middle of nowhere. |
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8. Motel (2005), USA, comedy-drama film directed by Michael Kang. Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood. |
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9. L.I.E. (2001), American independent film directed by Michael Cuesta. A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man. |
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10. The Orphanage (El orfanato) (2007), Spanish horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona. A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend. |