TOPICS Film Festival Gems 4 DVD Set Viva Cuba / Expiration Date / Saints and Soldiers / Mother of Mine - 60278 - 4497

Product Description The four family films in this set represent a unique collection of beautifully shot and produced films that will both inspire and entertain the whole family. Mother of Mine, Viva Cuba, Expiration Date and Saints and Soldiers create a complete collection of films with unmatchabe quality. They will enthrall, entertain, and cause the whole family to laugh out loud! Both remarkably filmed and brilliantly acted, Family Films represents the finest work that independent filmmakers are creating today. Includes BONUS shorts Cousin and Uncle from Film Movement. Suitable for ages 12 and up. The Film Festival Gems series was created in partnership with Best of Fest to provide fans of great filmmaking with the very best movies made by independent production companies. Each film is a multiple-award winner, earning recognition at the world s largest and most prestigious film festivals. From intense dramas and riveting documentaries to uplifting family fare, the Film Festival Gems series contains must-see films from the industry s most talented writers, directors and producers. 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 Haro (Elina), tackles that painful patch of history in the 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, a poor socialist proud of her family's social standing, places similar restrictions 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 A romantic fable/black comedy of sweetly odd proportions, Expiration Date tells the tale of Charlie Silvercloud III - a man with a heavy ancestral weight on his shoulders. His father and grandfather were both killed on their 25th birthdays by milk trucks. Oh, and Charlie is about to turn 25. With eight days left, he's accepted his fate, is out buying a casket and returning his library books, when he meets a girl who won't let him die in peace. A romantic fable of love, death and milk. Saints and Soldiers Saints and Soldiers is a dramatic, intense and heroic WWII film about members of the greatest generation struggling to be both good men and good soldiers. In mid-December 1944, while Hitler's army blitzkreigs through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, American sharpshooter Corporal Nathan Greer and a small band of soldiers come across a stranded British intelligence officer with valuable information to be delivered to Allied Forces, further upping the stakes of their already dangerous situation. With few weapons, no food and a strained camaraderie, this tiny band must take on the unforgiving winter to fight thier way back to Allied occupied territory. Review Mother of Mine: Finnish helmer Klaus Haro comes up with an emotionally involving tale that could also resonate beyond the region... --Gunnar Rehlin, Variety Viva Cuba: Director Malberti has a simple, unfussy style that reflects his young heroes' clear-eye naivete... --Adam Navman, Eye Weekly Expiration Date: Robert Guthrie...gives a captivating performance in this whimsical comedy about death and destiny. --Stephen Farber, Movieline
ASIN: B000YOX3EM
VSKU: GGV.B000YOX3EM.VG
Condition: Very Good
Binding: DVD