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Documentary chronicling America's justice system. Follows two female inmates – victims of horrific violence and tragedy – who are serving time in a Maryland juvenile detention center.
A girl's journey from the tender years of childhood through a melancholic adolescence into the dreamy days of young adulthood. The film, inspired by the visual aesthetics and themes of director Sofia Coppola, outlines the transition from a girl's tender childhood to a more mature adulthood. The heroine travels in times and places that mark the passage to new chapters of her life. A poetic journey is condensed into one day.
The biggest questions Alice and her classmates face during their senior year of high school are: Does anyone like me? Why is my mom always mad at me? Which colleges should I apply to? ...And most importantly: Who am I going to be?
Girlhood wants to break the boundaries of the stereotypical concept of femininity. To that end, the maker returns to her childhood where she starts questioning herself about her short hair, missing bikini top and reckless tree climbing. The result of her personal search is a mosaic portrait of young people who each reflect a facet of herself as a young woman.
Girlhood follows the story of three seventeen-year-old girls in a neighborhood in the center of Athens as they go through the difficult period of transition to adulthood while in quarantine isolation. Christina, Nefeli and Vera experiencing sexism, dream of their independence and try to learn to love themselves. With their faces glued to a screen, they take refuge in each other and await to finish school.
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
A Man's Girlhood examines in comic form the conundrums of intersexuality. Depicts the memories of the author, published in 1907 as an anonymous biography under the pseudonym NOBody, but was, following the taste of the time, dramatically oversubscribed. A child born without a clear gender is raised by the father as a boy, later by the uncle as a girl and dissected after death.
A girl with her lower limbs paralyzed, meets a handsome boy Jung when she sits at the window, reading. From then on when she hears bell ringing she knows it is Jung sending her books and they become bosom friends. Later, she goes to the countryside with her parents. She teaches the village children to read and write under a big tree and learns acupuncture to treat villagers. In the spring the children carry her in a wooden wheelchair across rivers to treat patients and in the winter the children push her forward in the snowstorm to save the heavy patients. One day, the girl falls ill and Jung comes to her bedside with unexpected news.
In a meditation on the meaning behind sports in a Post-Apartheid South Africa, three young girls muse on their hopes and dreams as aspiring Drum Majorettes.