Bekas

Nov 30, 2012

1h 37m

★ 7.5

The American Dream is waiting just around the corner.

Overview

Two shoeshiner homeless brothers named Zana and Dana live on the edge of survival. They catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema and decide that they want to go to America in order to meet Superman.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Sonet Film

Helsinki-filmi

Film i Väst

Ava Media

FS Film

SVT

Bekas Trailers

Cast

Zana

Zamand Taha

Dana

Sarwar Fazil

Helliya

Diya Mariwan

Baba Shalid

Suliman Karim Mohamad

Mama Hama

Rahim Hussen

Osman

Abdulrahman Mohamad

Jamal

Shirwan Mohamad

Ali

Bahadin Halabjai

Hagi Alan

Nawzad Majid

Professor Rizgar

Bakir Mustafa

Pora Begard

Baxan Mohamad

Ismail

Mohamad Salah

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6.6

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6.5

The Indian Runner

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6.1

True Confessions

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A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

6.0

Triage

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7.3

Seventeen

Sep 21, 2019

To find his therapy dog, a 17-year-old escapes from juvie and embarks on a journey of reconnection with his brother and grandmother through Cantabria.

6.4

The Work and the Glory

Nov 24, 2004

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6.7

Muscat

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7.1

Cha Cha Real Smooth

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0.0

Preaching to the Choir

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6.1

The Newton Boys

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The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.

6.3

Taras Bulba

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Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

4.7

My Brother's Shoes

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Dallas, a successful executive with a beautiful wife, dreams of having a family, while his gay brother Austin dreams of winning a local drag show. By a twist of fate, the brothers switch bodies and have to see how the other lives.

6.3

Starcrossed

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Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.

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0.0

The Orpheus Principle

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0.0

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No overview available.

7.2

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Ji-so, a young girl who doesn't have a house because of her bankrupted dad. In order to get money to buy a house she plan to steals wealthy people's dogs to earn reward money when she returns them.

7.3

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