Maya is a teenage girl with teenage problems, suffering with her self-esteem and dealing with her bully Pedro, that she's deeply in love with. Luckily her grandmother gifted Maya with a magical coin called ZAHIR, that will solve all of her problems...or make things way worse.
Inspired by the aesthetics of live-staged performances, "Waiting Room" offers a unique artistic portrayal of handling one's childhood and growing up.
Isa and Zoe are eleven years old, they are best friends. Through their video diaries, they tell their perspectives on the transition from childhood to adolescence, the changes they are undergoing and their concerns when they stop being girls to become women.
Roald is thrown into a peculiar situation when his grandmother's watermelon is suddenly worth 20 million kroner.
The New Gaither Growing Series presents the premiere of Lil' Gaither. This feature is filled with lots of fun and fantastic visuals including the wacky antics of the 3 Little Wooden Guys as they sing and dance and an interactive segment entitled 'Find Bullfrog.' Children will be mesmerized while playing peek-a-boo with Bullfrog as he hides in the trees, in the house, and his other favorite spots. Parents and children alike will enjoy the best-loved Homecoming songs by the Gaither Vocal Band and popular kids' songs 'I Am A Promise' and 'I'm Something Special.' Your toddlers and pre-schoolers will watch it again and again! Lil' Gaither is the first of the Gaither Growing Series.
A found footage assignment turned autobiography - piano, girl kissers, skating, you know how it goes.
Four high school graduates go on one last camping trip before separating for college.
Bunny Head don't want to grow old. The beginning of Cabeça de Coelho's story before the short film "Cereja do Bolo"
Carl, an old mushroom person, was heading home when he saw a newly born mushroom named Belle. Although Carl didn't want anything to do with her, he reluctantly felt obligated to help her find her parents.
Whales are the largest mammals in the oceans. Giants like Moby Dick inhabit the world’s oceans. But Flipper, the dolphin, also belongs to their species. Hampie, the little humpback whale, will not become as huge as Moby Dick. But at his birth he is already much larger than Flipper. When he has grown up, he has no natural enemies in the ocean. But growing up is quite stressful, Hampie can tell you about it. And no enemies? – That would be nice. But see for yourself how he lives. Get to know his family and listen to the tales from the past. Discover his living space, which is beautiful, but also full of dangers. And accompany him on his long, adventurous journey from the Pacific to the Arctic.
Matilda has been stuck in a memory loop, replaying the same moments over and over again. But this blissful act of remembering quickly turns into a compulsion, leaving only distorted images of her beloved memories. Her attempt to break out of this cycle seems successful. But the question arises, can one ever really escape nostalgia? Where do we put all these memories and versions of us that we'll never life through again but await us at the next corner we pass?
This short movie takes us through beautiful landscapes and oppressive spaces. A dream sequence that leads to liberation, on the border between imagination and reality. We travel with a boy who matures. He dreams, he dances, he is the conductor. The only.
The film twice states that it doesn't intend a moral injunction, but it clearly does with comments such as "our society... regards sexual intercourse outside marriage as irresponsible and possibly disastrous" and "you can use your knowledge with responsibility and real love or you can use it wantonly and with mere animal appetite". This is clearly marriage education not sex education.
A short film depicting adolescence.
Faced with unemployment, a young paperboy must choose between his trade and his friends.
Monolinguist Josh Kornbluth's meditation on growing up as the child of Communist parents.
Director Carolin Genreith takes a warmly ironic look at her mother and her female friends but also addresses her own fears and vanities. A vibrant portrait which looks beyond the borders of one twentysomething’s coolly urban lifestyle in Berlin to examine the travails of menopause – as well as the art of banishing one’s fear of ageing with a well-placed hip thrust.
Hiraeth is a short film about youth long gone, about growing up, about looking at old photos and not recognizing the person within. It’s about the sacrifices we make, the past selves we kill, to move forward, to survive.
Five teenage girls forge a strong friendship after a chance encounter. Their carefree days take a risky turn, testing their loyalty. Crossing a line puts their bond to the test, leaving their future uncertain. What'll their ending be?