Adolescence

Roc (13) and Sara (14) have arranged to meet through an app. Although they have previously discussed all they’ll be doing, they both feel nervous and unsure on how to proceed. Under pressure to lose their virginity, Roc and Sara meet at an abandoned farm on the outskirts of the city. They have decided to stop being children and become...

Tito wants to prove his worth and join the neighborhood gang. One morning of re-engagement, his new “friends” turn the party into a macabre joke in which they force him to commit a robbery as part of their initiation...

Lara and Roque, two queer and isolated teenagers in the Spanish countryside, face the end of a bitter-sweet...

Tula is the cleaning lady at a private school for girls. During her workday, she meets the headteacher's fourteen-year-old daughter in the toilet. The girl is going to tell Tula her secret. Tula will have to decide whether to help her or...

The story of young rappers from Bedstuy, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, known to have been both the epicenter of the crack epidemic in the United States and the birthplace of the greatest African-American hip-hop figures and rappers (Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Notorious BIG, Kanye West, etc.). These young rappers want to follow the footsteps of their elders and role models, trying to escape the violence of the streets, the guns, the arbitrary arrests, and the death of African Americans who now...

Kichi, a young Japanese, moves to Los Angeles chasing his dream of becoming an...

A group of children and adolescents, from Mexico and Latin America, waits in shelters of Tijuana for a resolution to the asylum request to enter the US. The wait is long and...

Ashley Solis is a high school senior who must divide her time between school and supporting her family as a second-generation Mexican American. Located in a California working class town, the harshness of agricultural labor in the strawberry fields shares a stark contrast with the beautiful nature and relationship to her spiritual ancestral upbringing. This film documents Ashley’s life guided by the spirit world through her hardships and joys in modern...

At the age of 40 Adriana has every reason to be happy: she is loved by her two teenage kids and her husband and the dream owning a summer home has come true. The family is in the process of setting up their summer home. However, when her husband Juan is forced to go back to the city for work, something changes. In her solitude, Adriana undertakes a journey of introspection that leads her to wonder if she is living the life she really...

The Tallahassee Unified Family Court (Florida) specialises in judicial cases involving minors. It is the only court in the United States that deals with matters relating to children and parents. The families are summoned to this court when accused of abuse, abandon or negligence in regard to the minors. The objective of this court according to the Law is to reunite families as quickly and safely as possible. The movie takes its inspiration from the words of James Baldwin: “If one really wants...

Raquel, a fifteen years old girl, behaves in a strange and aggressive way with her surroundings. She does not speak or relate as she has always done. Nobody knows what's wrong with her and she doesn't tell...

Aleixo Paz A.K.A. "Boy from the Blaze" is the survivor of a tragic accident that destroyed his life and that of his family. About to turn 18, without a job or an education, he spends his days in the darkness of his room. Consumed by pain and anger, his only hope is writing songs for an imaginary crowd. Inspired by a friend and encouraged by his mother, he will find the strength to go on stage and overcome his...

Hearing that her teenage sister is planning to commit suicide, Toranj is in limbo not knowing how to...

10th grade student Melisa confronts her teacher during a literature exam. In front of all her classmates, Melisa questions the school system and the usefulness of what they are studying by asking a very uncomfortable...

Wounded by the death of her mother, Yasmine, an introverted teenager, takes refuge in silence and depression. Her aunt, who suddenly takes on the role of the new mother for her and her little sister Sonia, can’t channel her...

Clara is a college girl who lives a perfect life as a popular student, surrounded by classmates and friends who would like to be like her, and enjoy her company. Her success in social media is great and she knows so it, and uses it to the top without paying attention to anything or anyone else but her ego. However, Clara is about to experience a very different reality, a terrifying success that will make her want to change everything she thought she...

A boy throws himself into the sea without looking back. Each breath is a memory; every stroke, some more...

Dogs bark around the neighborhood while David drives his sister Angela to her training. Despite being blood brothers, they don't have a lot in common. However, when the night comes, the pack protects each other above everything...

Sara is an overweight teen that lives in the shadow of a clique of cool girls holidaying in her village. Not even her childhood friend, Claudia, defends her when she’s bullied at the local pool in front of an unknown man. Her clothes are stolen and Sara must get home wearing nothing but her bikini. The long walk home will mark the rest of her...

Alterations is a short comedy that follows J, an adolescent trans woman previously known as Jesus, as she sets out to reconnect with her amnesic mother for the first time presenting as a...

Nikolai, a young boy will be released from correctional home. His teacher Dimitrij is particularly attached to him and uncertain about his future, as his father bullys...

Based on an experience of the director, “Silence please” tells the story of two brothers Dani is a young neighborhood guy from a humble house. He works in a warehouse and wishes things were easier for him and his family. He lives with his mother and brother, Javier, who suffers from cerebral palsy. Javier is working on an intership on the neighbrhood library, but a little incident disrupts the family...

The story about teenage archers in small countryside who are searching for the perfect 10 points, X 10. A coming of age story of young men who decided to follow their own path, unlike most other Korean teenagers whose only dream is to have a secure life, bland and boring as it may be. This film is about their joyful but tough one year challenges for their...

Louis scapes from Amber's relationship looking for his new tinder target, Jennifer. This time he only can arrive there by Uber with Peter driving. Although these are not his only intentions in this trip, that changes their destiny...

Santi and Jota are two guys living in the outskirts of Madrid. Like many others, they have decided not to study or work and they spend their precious time drinking beer cans in the park and talking about the hottest girls in the neighborhood. But Jota seems a little bit worried about...

A Saturday morning right after a big party. Antoine, 17 years old, wakes up with a hangover but no memories. He can't recall why Pauline is lying in his bed. She remains silent even though she knows a bit more than he...

A fishing day between a son, a father and a grandfather. They are speaking about an absent mother, who becomes present. A call is...

It’s summer time. Adrián and his friends climb every afternoon at a roof to spy a girl who sunbathes naked. But this afternoon won’t be like the others: today they’ll realize that one of them is more interested in a guy showering in a close...

Innocence, sex and lust converge to tell the story of Guille, a teenager who seeks himself through...

Alina suffers from sleep paralysis and several parasomnias which make her have a high-powered medicine called Orfidal. The project immerses within her mind showing her illness as a gift and trying to teach, from an artistic perspective, and a different point of...

Carles travels by car with his teenage son, Pol. An unexpected incident will change the course of their...

After the death of two of her classmates, Julia is incapable of feeling any sort of sadness. Chocked by the suffocating mourning, and by a deep resentment, she will write something that will have dire...

An inspiring story about Paul, a 12-year-old boy from the township Dunoon in Capetown, South-Africa. Paul has a dream, a dream he thinks about the whole day; he wants to become a surfer. But for boys from Dunoon it's not easy to surf. There is no transport to the beach and there is no money for...

The Brazilian girls' football team is followed as they prepare themselves for the tournament that will change their lives forever, the Street Child World Cup. In the midst of police and drug gangs confrontations the Favela Street Girls strive to keep their dreams...

After running away from home, Maelys, 15 years old, ends up wande- ring in the streets. She meets a group of dropouts. Seduced by their ideals of freedom, she gets stuck with them. She will discover the street code, a daily routine between begging, small offences and...

Silvana arrives to the south of Chile in search of her father. As the hours goes by her anxiety increases waiting his arrival. Meanwhile, she spends the time fantasizing about the encounter discovering the impressive place and its people. With their help, details are unveiled about this person that remains unknown to...

Forced into an American high school by her parents, an isolated foreign student becomes attracted to her only friend, her female English...

Constant struggle, loyalty and courage until the ultimate victory. These are the tenets of an underground gym where people from the working-class neighborhoods of Barcelona gather to express their feelings through...