Léo und Rémi, beide 13 Jahre alt, sind beste Freunde und stehen sich nah wie Brüder. Sie sind unzertrennlich, vertrauen sich und teilen alles miteinander. Mit dem Ende des Sommers und dem Wechsel auf eine neue Schule gerät ihre innige Verbundenheit plötzlich ins Wanken – mit tragischen Folgen.
Lucas ist 17 und kann es kaum abwarten, endlich das Internat und die Provinz hinter sich zu lassen, um nach Paris zu ziehen, wo sein großer Bruder Quentin lebt. Auch sein erster Freund Oscar wird ihn nicht davon abhalten. Doch ein tragischer Unfall reißt Lucas‘ hoffnungsvollen Blick auf die Welt in Stücke. Weil selbst seine Mutter ihn nicht trösten kann, macht er sich auf nach Paris, wo er eine Woche bei Quentin und dessen Mitbewohner Lilio wohnen wird. Es werden Tage, die alles verändern werden …
Halfaouine heißt die Altstadt von Tunis. Hier lebt der zwölfjährige Noura (Selim, der Neffe des Regisseurs). Wegen seiner kindlichen Ausstrahlung darf er noch immer mit seiner Mutter im Hamam baden. Angestachelt von zwei Freunden, kundschaftet er die Anatomie der Frauen aus… Der Dokumentarfilmer Férid Boughedir spürte der eigenen Kindheit in den Siebzigern nach und gestattet Einblicke in die orientalische Kultur, die Fremden normalerweise verborgen bleiben. Dem Publikum der meisten arabischen Länder wird der unprätentiöse, charmante und humorvolle Film bis heute von der Zensur vorenthalten.
Der kleine Natan ist Sohn eines mexikanischen Vaters und einer italienischen Mutter. Die Eltern sind gerade dabei sich zu trennen und Natan soll mit der Mutter zurück nach Italien gehen. Als kleine Abschiedsreise fährt der Vater mit dem Kleinen ans Meer, wo die beiden einige Tage lang mit einem Fischer hinaus aufs Meer fahren, wo der Junge die Schönheiten des Landes, insbesondere des Chinchorro-Riffs (Banco Chinchorro), eines der größten Korallenriffe der Erde, kennenlernen soll.
Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.
A group of summer camp kids, left to their own devices when their teachers stage a strike, go on a rampage of stealing and looting. A stolen boat brings them to an uninhabited island. When their boat drifts away, the marooned kids must fend for themselves.
A story about two boyhood friends who come to a crossroads in their adult relationship when one of them finds true love. The story explores the blurry line between love and friendship & obsession and jealousy.
This documentary, chronicles the twelve-year production of Boyhood (2014) and features on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew.
During tender years, a companion can guide you through awkward moments when the heart rules the head, or be a partner in crime in the face of danger. Follow these young men through the highs and lows of early learning, when all around us is new, and peer pressure is at its most pervasive. The 6 short films are: It Was Dark [Il faisait noir] (2015); Suspendu (2015); Keep Going (2016); Headbutt (2017); Out of the Blue [Ud af det blå] (2016); Mars Colony (2020).
Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this short film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s. In the film a farmer's young son, sent to town to hire a man for the harvest, readily accepts when an itinerant trumpet player, down on his luck, begs a chance. He is hardly the kind of man the boy's father had in mind, but that night his trumpet speaks from the shadows and everyone pauses to listen.
In a family of sheep rustlers, a 15-year-old must go up against his domineering father to help his younger brother keep the lamb left orphaned by their latest slaughter. Rustling touchingly presents an alternative masculinity instilled not with machismo, but with empathy.
Summer vacation begins and Jason and his mother Kaarina go to the country, away from the dust and noise of the city. Jason notices that the others have also come to the vacation home to spend their summer vacation. There are a few big people and one small one. Kaarina loves not having to cook. But Jason thinks people look like they're sitting at home alone. So he starts organizing things a bit. And at the end of the holiday, everyone has new friends!
For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.
After losing his innocence, his best friend, and the love of his adolescence, this coming-of-age gangster drama follows Harman in an hour of his night within a new life of violence.
Eleven-year-old Steve is the smallest boy in class. He thinks girls are soppy, detests football and prefers painting. To alleviate his loneliness, he occasionally escapes into an excitingly violent fantasy realm of his own creation. His best mate Stuart is the only solid thing in a comfortless world where people argue too much… usually about Steve.
This short surrealistic film portrays a growing boy and the bizarre world of imposed conditions and contradictions he evolves in. Made by students of Queen's University, A One/Two/Many/World is social commentary expressed in symbolic language.