The real shame is in the silence itself.
A 12-year-old girl must take a stand against her conservative grandmother after being excluded from a family ritual upon getting her first period.
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Twenty-two year old Neuroscience student Wendy is in the midst of a transition from pre-med to performance when she is thrown into quarantine with her 17 year-old sister, April. Suddenly sharing a full-sized bed, the sisters struggle to make peace with their newfound living quarters. But, while editing April’s college essays, Wendy discovers her purpose–to help April find hers. Over fourteen days, the girls grow from acquaintances to artistic allies as they realize their unstoppable potential to pursue their passion. Based on a true story, this film was shot in Houston with an entirely Texan cast & crew. Creator Abby Tozer donated $2500 to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell young performing artists' scholarship.
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The documentary »I Choose to Live« presents a touching confession of a young girl who after losing her mother, tried to end her life. Later on she struggled with self-destructive behaviour and also an eating disorder. In this documentary the young girl is portrayed by the actress Nina Rakovec. The theme of mental health of youngsters is highlighted with the help of the professional counsellors.
After finding a ladybug in the school playground, Dominique cares for the newly-found bug. In her classroom, Dominique is bullied by Jessica and Sam, who pick on her by tossing her ladybug, prompting her to seek revenge.
A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father.
Salim and Alì, two Nigerian brothers, work in a tomato field managed by Fulvio, a violent and racist corporal. Alì, as opposed to Salim, lives a life which goes over the legality. One day, Fulvio commands the two brothers to deliver a drug shipment to a notorious local criminal, but on the return something goes wrong. The corporal's son, Vincenzo, will help Salim to escape his father's brutality.
Two strangers try to navigate their loneliness in big city.
A girl’s 20th birthday party gets ruined when she discovers her boyfriend’s secret.
The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird, bartering it for his father's album with stamps. Having caught a pigeon, the boy releases a bird into the sky. But the pigeon is returning to it's native dovecote, to it's former owner, who again demands money for it. This is a short movie about childhood and dreams, about the first life lessons that everyone has to face in childhood, when society and its laws bring changes into life, sometimes breaking the brightest dreams.
When sixth-grader boy Qiu is bullied in school for having gay dads, his stepfather Howard, a flamboyant Jazz trumpet player, must confront his own nightmares of childhood bulling before he can provide his son a feeling of security.
Omnibus film with 11 short films directed by students of the HfG Ulm
Based on the short story Graduation Day by Stephen King
A young girl enjoys her boyfriend's graduation party.
A little boy and his uncle are playing loudly in a cold bath on Sunday morning.
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Ayana, a blind African-American woman who loves audio-books read by a particular voice, has chance encounter with Dave, who is attending to his dying father. While Dave is trying to find marijuana to ease his father’s pains, Ayana recognizes her favorite reader.
It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Alan’s jealousy drives him to foil his friend’s relationship and wrestle with where his passions really lie.
In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first dramatic film in Kyoto. “Honnô-ji Gassen” was shot at Shinnyo-Do Temple. Considered a lost film.
