A group of hardened young men battles to adapt to societal norms, while their mentors struggle with the immense challen…
A young Iranian's harrowing escape unfolds through digital fragments in a room in England.
Follow the wild ride of Kevin, an enigmatic mute with a severed ear, as he navigates life, institutions, and a world th…
Within the walls of a grand Roman villa, a select group of scholars and artists converge annually, crafting a mosaic of…
Five young individuals intertwine their war experiences with Shakespeare's "Hamlet," facing the existential question of…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
A groundbreaking documentary that delves into the heart of innovative education, capturing the natural and unforced ess…
Before formal education looms, 6-year-old Stanley revels in his final year embodying Disney's Queen Elsa.
Explores the power of community dance as a platform for personal expressions of marginalization and acceptance.
In this documentary a young man's hopes for a Chinese New Year engagement face a harsh reality check, sparking an inner…
Is it absolutely necessary to abandon our artistic vein when society pushes us to find economic stability? This documen…
This short film follows four young immigrants from diverse backgrounds as they navigate love, friendship, and cultural …
Within the heart of Paris, the Bibliothèque Publique d'Information unites an unassuming community, as diverse individua…
This short documentary film gives us access to the showers of a public school bathroom in Norway. A film about identity…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talen…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
As a parody of the democratic system, a group of political science students runs as candidates in the Croatian parliame…
The young South Korean photographer Haneul Dameun invites us in this documentary to what she calls her "secret garden",…
After a past as a drug dealer and drug user, "Plusmacher", a young German rapper, navigates life with what keeps him go…
When the electoral campaign for the student elections begins in a Brazilian high school, the friendships, dreams and pa…
Four young Chinese artists united through an artistic project compose a unique panorama that give us a glimpse of the e…
At a rural school in South Korea, a youth archery team prepares to make history at the inter-school championship.
In this experimental short, Ana and a group of young people in a park have a lot to tell us about voyeurism, human conn…
These three young men may not have a home of their own, but their hopes of living an independent life away from the fos…
Composed of black and white still pictures, in this short film Hanne tells us how life goes on after losing her sister …
This documentary follows Wu and Tang, two young Chinese trying to find their true passion in life amidst the pressures …
In an old underage prison in Mexico, a video and photography workshop brings out the infinite creativity of a group of …
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
In the bucolic and desolate Argentinian wilderness, a young man spends his days alone surviving as in ancient times. Wh…
A young farmer and a gang of teenagers wander the prairie. A farm. A flooded cemetery. The sunset. Some ruins. Experime…
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
A city is wrapped by fireworks at night. A cell phone goes out into the streets and films the face of a street boy. It …
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
In the midst of a Cuba undergoing major changes, a young athlete is torn between committing herself to her track team o…
Jovica, a young man from Kosovo, among other things, dreams of emigrating and having a girlfriend to start a family. Bu…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
Coral, voyeuristic, incisive. This documentary, in the best style of the filmmaker Jean-François Lesage, dissects summe…
A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
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