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Film festival gems. Family [digital videodisc].

[United States] : Topics Entertainment, [2009]

Mothers and sons -- Finland -- Drama.

Mother and child -- Cuba -- Drama.

Indians of North America -- Drama.

Latter Day Saints -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Finnish.

Motion pictures, Cuban.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Film festival gems.

4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

[Disc 1]. Mother of mine (105 min.) (2005) / Klaus Härö -- Viva Cuba (80 min.) (2006) / Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti -- Expiration date (94 min.) (2006) / Rick Stevenson -- Saints and soldiers (90 min.) (2003) / Ryan Little -- Bonus shorts: Cousin (4 min.) (1999) / Adam Elliot -- Uncle (6 min.) (1996) / Adam Elliot.

Mother of mine: During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. "Mother of Mine", the latest from the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.

Viva Cuba: In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist that is proud of her family's social standing. She places similar restriction on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.

Expiration date: Charlie Silvercould III carries around a family curse passed down from his grandfather; death by a milk truck on his 25th birthday. With eight days left, Charlie accepts his fate and starts taking care of his unfinished business, like watering his plants and returning his library books and so on. But while he's out casket hunting, he meets a girl who just won't let him die in peace.

Saints and soldiers: Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

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