The Sea (2013)

The story begins with an experiment. A filmmaker in the country of Georgia posts an ad inviting youth to audition for her film. Facing the camera, the hopefuls confess their struggles and dreams. These raw interviews unfold seamlessly into cinematic slivers of Georgian life.

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.

Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beautifully shot film on the illusions and disillusionments of childhood.

An Air Force officer returns to his father, son and remarried wife in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.

Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.

The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives’ deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at the start of the war. This film tells of men’s friendship, the boys’ first baptism of fire, and the victory…

Un ejército infantil se enfrenta a un anciano por la posesión de unas tierras en las que ellos solían jugar, pero que él quiere cerrar para su uso privado.

The story takes place in a small village on the beach of Sea of Azov at the beginning of 1960s. Adolescents passionately dream of love about which they have heard from their elder experienced friends. 16 year-old Ignat is the first to find out what the real feeling is. His love for an adventuress who pretends to be a singer from capital becomes destructive.

If the scorpion could see and the viper could hear, there would be no escape". The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return "to the curve where man got lost" in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The amazement, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the meeting with the other, the other animal, the other vegetable. A dive looking for a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not.

En 1939, José Garcés, vencido y prisionero en el campo de concentración de Argéles (Francia), consigue mantenerse con vida aferrándose a sus recuerdos. Sobre todo al recuerdo de su primer amor, Valentina, la hija del notario, una niña rubia y angelical que se convirtió en su imposible ideal y a la que nunca debía olvidar. Ambos tuvieron una historia de amor en un pueblo del norte de España hacia 1911. José Garcés a los 12 años era un niño lleno de vitalidad que duda entre ser héroe, santo o poeta, y que inventa lo que sea necesario para estar con Valentina, pese a las amenazas familiares y a la sombra inquietante de los padres de la novia. Mosén Joaquín, profesor del niño, es el único en comprender la fuerza de su pasión.

La historia de la madurez de un joven judío (Newman) que viaja por Europa en busca de la tumba de su bisabuelo, quien fue asesinado por los nazis en la guerra.

Matthew es un niño que acaba de dejar la escuela. Es guapo y atlético y se cree gay. Mantiene una amistad con un solo amigo de la escuela, Phil, que se ha mantenido con Matthew a pesar de las reacciones hostiles de sus compañeros. A medida que su relación se vuelve más intensa, la novia de Phil, Sharon, y sus compañeros de clase se vuelven vengativos y agresivos. Los dos amigos se encuentran condenados al ostracismo tanto por amigos como por familiares y deciden huir.

A coming-of-age comedy about a teenage boy whose life is thrown into chaos when he discovers adult magazines, girls and the embarrassment that goes with both.

Jay, un profesor de escuela homosexual, es brutalmente asesinado. Antes de que su familia se entere del terrible suceso, un productor de televisión es informado del crimen y propone hacer un reality show que gire en torno al siniestro acontecimiento. ¿Accederá la familia a exponerse ante las cámaras? ¿Podrá la muerte convertirse en entretenimiento para miles de espectadores?

Surreal tale of a 14 year-old boy who dreams of escaping the loneliness from an unhappy home & sexual abuse (from his mother's boyfriend who is also his school swimming coach). One day his back mysteriously sprouts feathers and he can metaphorically fly away from it all.

In the Lesotho highlands, a 15-year-old boy tends his family's flock of sheep alone through the winter. His younger brother might have to quit the village school to help him. And two girls attempt to maintain their unique friendship when one of them goes off to attend a better school and the other stays in the village. Over the span of two years the film accompanies four teenagers in an isolated mountain village on their path to adulthood - a path between individuation and tradition.

The story takes place in the summer of 1995 outside of Gothenburg, Sweden, during the rise of Neo-Nazi violence that was sweeping across the country. The film "John Hron" is the true story about a teenager, his friends and family. John is caught up in defense of a student being bullied in school. As the conflict with the bully escalates it soon causes strain between John and his friends.

15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and finds refuge in his dreams and playing the saxophone. Only when he joins a band and began performing there Moritz pulled out of the vicious circle, and finds love with new friends...

Aunque alguna vez fue coronel en Argentina, el personaje principal de esta película ahora es un rico exiliado que vive en París con su amada esposa, quien no ha podido tener hijos. Para llenar este vacío en sus vidas, él alimenta y viste a los niños abandonados, criándolos en su mansión como si fueran suyos. Como nunca sería el caso en la vida real de hoy, en esta historia fantástica ambientada en 1925, nadie se opone a este comportamiento, y viven juntos de forma agradable y placentera. Las cosas se vuelven mucho más animadas cuando un mago escénico coloca a su atractiva hija en la casa del coronel, lo que despierta un vivo interés romántico de sus hijos y del gran hombre.