Malikappuram

Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong'...

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Alex Law Kai-Yui

Cast

Simon Yam, Sandra Ng Kwan-Yu, Paul Chun Pui

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Bernard Rose

Cast

Charlotte Burke, Elliott Spiers, Glenne Headly

Before leaving for Rome with his mother, five year old Natan is taken by his father, Jorge, on an epic journey to the pristine Chinchorro reef off the coast of Mexico. As they fish, swim, and sail the turquoise waters of the open sea, Natan discovers the beauty of his Mayan heritage and learns to live in harmony with life above and be...

Runtime

1h 13m

Director

Pedro González-Rubio

Cast

Natan Machado Palombini, Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini

80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Jaco Van Dormael

Cast

Michel Bouquet, Gisela Uhlen, Thomas Godet

A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

J-P Valkeapää

Cast

Pavel Liška, Vitali Bobrov, Jorma Tommila