Les enfants perdus 2023
1h 23m | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller | Release date: July 1, 2023 (Czech Republic)
Storyline:
Audrey and her three siblings are abandoned in an old house, where they were supposed to spend the summer vacations with their father, but he unexpectedly disappears during the night.
Koniec wakacji 1975
1h 26m | Drama, Family, Romance | Release date: March 31, 1975 (Poland)
Storyline:
Fifteen-year-old Jurek is to spend his holidays at home, in Silesia. After returning from school, he does not find her mother or her things. His father tells him a story about his mother’s sudden departure to a sanatorium. The boy does not really believe it. The boy has a bad feeling about his mother. He wants to talk to his father, learn the reasons for his mother’s decision, but his father gives him vague explanations. Jurek goes to Warsaw, to his mother’s sister, and there he finds the bitter truth.
Violet 2024
22m | Drama, Romance, Short | Release date: October 5, 2024 (Germany)
Storyline:
After an argument with his mother, 12-year-old Dan, who suffers from scoliosis, seeks love and intimacy from 17-year-old Anna, who is supposed to look after him. While his mother, who works for a security company, is on the night shift, Dan and Anna cross set boundaries.
Set in 2003, Quinn and Cyrus are a closeted gay couple fighting through the nature of their sweet teen fling turned drug-fuelled toxic relationship. Quinn wants a real boyfriend, but Cyrus neglects him in public, fearful what may happen if he were caught. How much longer can the two of them last before they catch up to themselves?
Me and You 2012
Io e te (original title)
1h 43m | Drama | Release date: October 25, 2012 (Italy)
Storyline:
A 14-year-old pretends to go on a ski trip, but actually spends the week in isolation in his basement, escaping society’s pressure. When his 25-year-old half-sister enters the basement, a few emotional and confronting days and nights ensue.
City of Dreams 2023
1h 54m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: August 30, 2024 (United States)
Storyline:
City of Dreams follows Jesús, a young farmer in rural Mexico who dreams of playing for Club Puebla, his local soccer team. With the promise of training at a soccer camp in Los Angeles, Jesús is convinced by his father to leave home, but he soon discovers that he’s been sold to a sweatshop run out of a decrepit mansion in downtown Los Angeles. Jesús is then subjected to the grueling 18-hour work schedule dictated by El Jefe, a boss who promises freedom for those who complete their quotas, and whose brutality is motivated by his own desperation to provide for his family back in Mexico. Despite all, Jesús finds solace in Elena, a girl who was similarly betrayed and sent to America under the guise of attending a fashion school. When Elena goes missing and another co-worker, Carlitos, is severely beaten for confronting El Jefe, Jesús realizes his only way out is a daring escape.
#will 2016
28m | Drama, Short | Release date: October 24, 2016 (Sweden)
Storyline:
William is a 15-year old teenager who tries to be himself and fights for what he believes in. This gives him several close friends but also some enemies. To get recognition he uses Social Media a lot but recurrent depressions and delusions seem to result in a self-harm behavior. One weekend he is allowed to use the school auditorium alone to record a video but both strange and frightening events start to occur. Someone is also threatening him.
At the school of music, dance and drama Spark, dreamers emerge. Some voice their dreams, others keep them hidden. Follow them through a year of performances, assignments, parties, and concerts.