On the day his stepfather's illness reaches a crisis, 18-year-old Jesse wrestles with grief and the urgency to confess a truth he's never told.
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Jesse
Max
Sanja (Mum)
Glenn (Dad)
Ray (Stepdad)
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A lonely girl travels the stars to celebrate her birthday with the family she left behind, but instead finds a sleeping giant who trades her lost past for a strange, eternal companionship.
A withdrawn boy spends the summer in the countryside, coping with the loss of his grandmother and his parents’ separation, while communicating with her through an old tape recorder as a mysterious unseen world slowly begins to emerge.
Sofia always prioritises her studies above everything else and is determined to complete her art coursework before the 9 p.m. deadline. As she struggles to find inspiration, the line between imagination and reality begins to blur. Sofia eventually completes her coursework but was it her imagination, or the reality she had been avoiding, that helped her in the end?
A 12 year old girl named Hanna loses her pet cat, Zsa Zsa, on a bright summer day in California. She embarks on a journey of fantasy and illusion to find her cat, and it reveals the truth of her future life.
An elementary school in the mountains is to be abolished due to the decreasing population. The PE teacher is assigned to form a choir and to win the national choir contest to solve the crisis. With limited resource and absolutely no music background, the PE teacher and a group of tone-deaf students start to prepare for the contest. The choir and their community eventually find their own voice and identity.
These five award-winning coming of age short films offer a glimpse of how boys and young men tackle life's difficult desires: confronting one's demons, understanding sexual relationships, gaining the respect of one's father, or simply running away from it all. This is only the start of their complex formative years, where not every question has an answer, and not every answer makes sense. The short films are: Boys [Pojkarna] (2015); Ioana (2015); Kiem Holijanda (2017); Picnic [Piknik] (2015); Tomer & Elias [Tomer en Elias] (2016).
The 12-year-old German boy, Mathias, discovers his sexuality on a sailing boat in Denmark. Surrounded by water, trapped on the boat with his parents, who still treat him like a child, his desire is to get on land to have new experiences.
Nine-year-old Daan is really excited about taking up swimming when he discovers his mother's old swimming medals in the attic. When his school teacher encourages him to join the nearest local swimming club, Daan finds out that his mother is definitely not amused. She is afraid that Daan inherited her cardiac problems. Despite his mothers fears, Daan doesn't wait and starts training behind her back.
Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, Caleb finds love in the most unlikely of places.
A young girl makes a bid for connection with her emotionally unavailable father.
In a small Spanish town, teenager Mio's parents mysteriously disappear, forcing him to undertake an odyssey between childhood and adolescence that demands everything of him in his quest to find himself.
Whitney reunites with her friend Allison after not seeing her for a year.
Hanging out with friends, smoking a lot, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. In her debut, the Ukrainian director composes a deeply emotional and multi-layered portrait of a generation whilst seamlessly flowing between the fictional and the documental.
Based on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act.
On a secluded beach, Dylan and Malachi find a temporary escape from a world that refuses to understand them. But as the tide shifts, a raw confrontation about love, identity, and family rejection threatens to change everything between them forever.
Two young adults are confronted by compulsory heterosexuality and the gender binary, feeling pressured into conforming. Through self-reflection and mutual support, they find their own paths and break free from the expectations that were imposed on them. Together they find the courage to be themselves in a world that doesn’t seem ready for them.
A cringe-worthy coming of age, comedy-drama about two incoming freshmen year students navigating chaos of puberty, girl-hood and self-discovery as they question their identities and sexuality
After a major argument with her childhood friend, an emotionally guarded woman begins to question the power dynamics at play, risking not only her circle of friends but also the relationship with her new girlfriend.
Lio, Odessa, Tavares, Arthur, and Rick are five young people, each facing a defining moment in their lives. Lio, a terminally ill influencer, uses social media to make the most of the time she has left. Arthur, scarred by childhood trauma, has withdrawn from society and struggles with human connection. Brothers Odessa and Tavares grew up in poverty. Recently released from prison, Odessa is determined to create a better future for his younger brother, while Tavares dreams of a career in music but is held back by financial hardship. Rick comes from a wealthy family, but behind the privilege lies emotional neglect. Seeking an escape, he turns to drugs, unaware of the path he's entering. Their lives seem unrelated, yet each is about to make a decision that could change their future forever.
