A group of average students at a secondary school in Zürich wrestle with the average teenager's needs: love and acceptance. But when the growing influence of social media tosses them into the grown-up world of sexuality and aggression, their needs turn dangerous. What follows is a tragedy that blurs the lines between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence.

An exceptionally gifted teenage boy is about to start studying physics at a university specializing in the theory of parallel worlds. He has an extraordinary mind and a wounded soul, which his mother, who steers his life, seems incapable of healing. Then a Man appears in their lives and, as the Boy passes from the hands of the Mother into his care, a new order is established. Their torturous road forms a bond between the three central characters,...

15-year-old Rita spends her summer days flooding the balcony of her apartment, gossiping with her best friend, and avoiding her ex-boyfriend. After Rita visits an exhibition on Melanesia culture photographed by her older handsome neighbor she develops a crush that propels her into a world where fantasy and reality collide in modern day Portugal. Directed by one of the country's leading auteurs in gorgeous 16mm, JOHN FROM is a truly original, enchanting...

The story of Venkatesh, a hotel worker in India, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the home. Not content to simply dream about a different life, Venkatesh is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants - indeed, about the world around him - and his curiosity changes the shape of...

In the vein of such classic coming of age films as Francois Truffaut's *The 400 Blows*, Diane Kurys's PEPPERMINT SODA captures a particular moment in the tumultuous life and development of young teens. Anne and Frederique are sisters entering their teen years in 1963 France, torn between divorced parents and struggling with the confines of their strict school. Along the way, they undergo an awakening both political and romantic. Nominated for Best...

Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, 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. Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she's hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of school,...

In this bold, stunning film, 12-year-old Adar and her stepfather push their role-playing games into dangerous territory while her workaholic mother is away from home. As Adar attempts to delicately maneuver between the tempestuous and fiery relationships at home, she meets Alan -- a dreamy boy who keenly resembles her -- and brings him into the family. Alan leads Adar through a dark journey between childhood and adolescence, reality and fantasy, which...

The summer after high school, two best friends while away their time skateboarding in an abandoned copper mine in Serbia. But no matter how they try to distract themselves, they can't escape the inevitable changes in their relationship, and themselves. Nominated for a Golden Leopard at the **Locarno International Film Festival.** Nominated for Best Film at the **San Francisco International Film Festival.** *"Nikola Lezaic's debut feature is a marvel...this...

FEELING THROUGH is a coming of age story that follows 18-year-old Tereek, a kind but guarded teen wandering the streets of New York, desperate for a place to crash, and his encounter with Artie, a DeafBlind man in need of help getting home. What begins as an awkward meeting between strangers becomes an intimate bond between friends, and a nightlong journey that forever changes Tereek. It's ultimately someone who can neither see nor hear Tereek who...

Nacho has a crush on Mayra, the daughter of the leader of a gang of thieves and street vendors, La Diabla. Nacho and Mayra discover love and the first steps into adulthood, despite Mayra's mother.