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Illusions
“I saw it with my own eyes!” – we say and the argument is over. Our eyes – what could be more reliable? But some- times the eye does not see exactly what actually exists, or it sees some- thing that is not there at all. Some- times we encounter illusions – tricks that our eyes and brain perform over…
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The Night of the Stag Beetles
A group of children’s return to nature when the world powers down. Two teenage sisters, driven from their city by war and an unprecedented energy crisis, set out on a dangerous journey to their grandparents’ mountain village. Among the peaks, they find Ginepro and his band of self-reliant children — and a new way of living, built on trust, courage, and…
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The Pikes of Lake Road
Thirty-three days of secrets, dares, and the summer that changed everything. With all the spontaneity of his thirteen years, Mauri retraces the thirty-three days that have made him grow up, starting on that 14th June when his best friend, Brando, dives into the lake and never resurfaces. But incredulous grief soon gives way to doubt: mysterious notes written in Brando’s…
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Mouse Encounters of the Third Kind
A mouse, a monolith, and a mission to discover the truth about alien life — right beneath the Old Apple Tree. Urth is the last-born, smallest mouse in a family of muscle-bound fruit gatherers. He dreams of something more—something bigger than the life the colony has mapped out for him. When a strange black object appears in the forest and…
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In The Pard’s Shadow
Some creatures are meant to stay hidden. Some truths are not. Five teens. One summer. A forest full of secrets. They came to study nature. No one expected to find claw marks. Or silence. Or fear. Locals whisper about the “pard”—a creature that doesn’t exist. At least, that’s what they’re told. But something is watching. And someone is hiding the truth. As the forest closes in,…
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The Coming of The Bear
Some animals are born to be free. Some people learn to be. A story of courage, connection, and a bear’s journey home. Karhu is a bear who doesn’t know how to be wild. Viola and Kevin are two teens sent to help set him free. At first, it’s just a summer project: hike, take notes, check the collar. But then the…
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Escape From Paradise
Genoa, the late 1950s. Lilli is the fifth of seven sisters, but she couldn’t be more different from them. A tomboy who doesn’t like following the rules, she feels suffocated inside the walls of her home. Everything changes the day Lilli meets Ida, a petty thief in the service of a mysterious woman named Salomè, and her gang of Strays. For…
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The Berlin Offside
Berlin, summer 1961. Every afternoon, in a small square in Berlin, eight kids gather to play their completely unofficial, and thus monumentally important, football tournament. Leo and his team are about to face their most important challenge: the final match that will decide who controls the square where all the Berlin boys, both from East and from West, usually play football. But…
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White Fog
A mysterious fog rising from the river and a girl destined for something more. A village shrouded in mist, where ghosts seem to rise from the river, the bell tower tolls through the air, and the memory of vanished children still lingers… As in many tales, there is a godmother and a girl destined for something greater. The past hides…
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Syberia
Janis, a young Polish dissident, was sentenced to a Siberian labor camp after a failed student protest — which led to his arrest and the death of his father. Now, after two years, a mysterious cosmic explosion shatters the sky: the real-life Tunguska Event of 1908. In the chaos, Janis escapes into the vast, frozen taiga. Battling hunger, cold, wild animals,…
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Anomalya
How many mistakes, how many wrong choices would we like to delete? How many words, how many silly things do we wish we hadn’t said? What if we could go back in time? What if we could change the past and finally take control of our future? There are many pasts and many futures, each shaped by a delicate domino effect: one…
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The Greys
1986, Cavazza, province of Belluno. Population: 102. No roller coasters. No cinemas. No holiday camps. Just trees, mountains and a cabin in the woods. Angelo would give anything not to follow his eccentric father Pietro on another wild goose chase. But he’s thirteen – he has no choice. And this time the mission is… to hunt aliens. Pietro is convinced that they have…
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The Tiger’s Riddle
A fable with fangs — darkly witty, profoundly clever, and delightfully wicked. A cunning tiger confronts a flock of frightened sheep hiding in a mine. With charm, riddles, and irresistible manipulation, she lures them out one by one… with predictable results. But in a final twist, the tiger meets an even more surprising end: the trickster will be tricked! Told…
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The Pocket Watch Gang
Four friends with two things in common: three dollars and a burning desire to see the world. For four friends who live on one of the endless Louisiana bayous in early 1900s America, the 1,000-page Walker & Dawn Catalogue is the gateway to a world of hopes. So, when they find three silver dollars, they order an automatic revolver. But…
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A Hundred Steps to Freedom
A gripping adventure blending suspense and emotional depth. “Breathing heavily, he turned towards the cliff. At that precise moment an eagle’s shriek filled the sky. The air near him shifted, the silhouette of the raptor darted in front of him. It seemed to incite him. ‘Come on, grab my legs. Fly away with me’.” Blind since childhood, Lucio has always…
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I Am a Leaf
“One day I am blowing, one day I can’t get going. One day blazing sun, one day there is none.” Day after day, like a leaf in the wind, our emotions change. Sometimes we feel light and free, other times we feel weighed down. One day we feel brave, the next we feel scared and small. Some days we feel…
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Chromosomes
Lucia looks back on her life through her most treasured memories: the love she shared with Giorgio, summers in Ischia, and laughter-filled Sundays with friends. But her story goes beyond personal recollection—it becomes a tapestry of generations, crossing continents and centuries. From seafaring grandparents and adventurous ancestors to ancient origins rooted in the heart of Africa, Cromosomi is a celebration…
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Red Stars
Leningrad, 1941. Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler’s Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. All the children in the city are loaded onto special trains that take them to safety from the enemy advance, but due to a mistake Viktor and Nadya end up on different trains and lose track of each other. While Nadya…
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A Letter with Pigtails
A tender and thrilling escape across borders, where a little girl becomes a letter — and history rides the rails. 1914: Johanna, the daughter of a railway engineer in Mexico City, must reach her mother in Texas. To keep her safe, her father decides to put a stamp on her and send her in a postal carriage. A long journey…
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The Greatest
She is just a girl now, but she will become a martial artist, the queen of the Chinese sea, the Greatest pirate who ever lived Canton, 1770. Shi Yu is a six-year-old orphan who works for the quick-tempered innkeeper Bai Bai. At the inn, Yu meets Li Peng, a master in the martial arts of the Air and Water wushu.…
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