Gum (2023)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 30分
演出 : Tiegan Capewell
シノプシス
A female/non-binary-led short film,
40歳を過ぎた広告マンのレスター・バーナムと上昇志向たっぷりの妻キャロリン。彼らの家庭生活に潜む歪んだ真実が徐々に暴かれていく。妻は夫を憎み、娘のジェーンは父親を軽蔑している。そして会社の上司はレスターにリストラによる解雇を告げる。そんな毎日に嫌気が差したレスターは、人生の方向転換を図る。しかし、自由と幸せを求めるレスターを待ち受けていたのは、あまりにも高価な代償だった。
高校卒業を控えた春。 町に残る最後の林が伐採されることになったことをきっかけに、主人公の結衣は林にまつわる、ある天狗伝説に触れる。 結衣は、年子の妹である佳世が11年前に天狗による神隠しにあっていることを知ると、次第に自らの中で当時の記憶がよみがえる。 「あの日、佳世の隣には私もいたのに、自分は選んでもらえなかった」 “選ばれる”ということの意味について、天狗の神隠しから11年後の町に住む姉妹と彼女たちを見守る少年の物語。
When Luna's superstitious family hides all the mirrors in the house, she decides to recover them, only to accidentally fall through one, transporting her to a new magical world. There she finds multiple versions of herself who have been confined and have grown jealous of her living in the real world while they hide in the shadows. Luna has to try and figure out how to escape while also being confronted with her identity crisis.
A Community college burnout in the making Crispin, spends the majority of his time stuck on repeat with a longtime group of childhood friends. But his newfound desire to move out of his suburban hometown prompts him to land a job at the local, rundown Northwood Pizza. There he meets a group of employees as attached to their jobs as Crispin's friends are to their city; including Sierra, a girl whose musings lie deeper than most. Through his experiences with his friends, coworkers, and a kindling relationship, Crispin Learns to embrace his higher ambitions.
Follows Ilyas, a 13-year-old boy who navigates the social hierarchy of his new school in California with a mustache his parents won't let him shave.
A homeless, gay 17-year-old, fleeing Mormon conversion therapy, is taken under the wing of an 18-year-old, brash, Black trans sex worker. They create a competition to see who can first contract HIV, in order to secure state benefits and escape the vicious underbelly of homelessness in Atlanta.
Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
A struggling student who faces financial and mental hardship finds solace in a fraternity and one of its enigmatic members.
1960年代後半、ブラジル・リオデジャネイロの貧民街“シティ・オブ・ゴッド”では銃による強盗や殺人が絶え間なく続いていた。そこでは3人のチンピラ少年が幅を利かせている。ギャングに憧れる幼い少年リトル・ダイスは彼らとともにモーテル襲撃に加わり、そこで初めての人殺しを経験すると、そのまま行方をくらました。一方、3人組の一人を兄に持つ少年ブスカペは事件現場で取材記者を目にしてカメラマンを夢見るようになる。70年代、名をリトル・ゼと改めた少年リトル・ダイスは、“リオ最強のワル”となって街に舞い戻ってきた…。
'Plastic Love Story' presents Coming of Age of three girls in Japan. Eri tries to remedy her anxiety and loneliness by being self-destructive. Rina relies on her relationship with boyfriend to compensate for her broken dream of being a ballerina. Kanae lost her brother when she was a child and seeks a solitary life in an abandoned hut by a seaside town. The three girls encounter three men in their lives. When they meet, their 'Plastic' love story begins.
Lucas is 17 when his teenage world is suddenly shattered. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother with whom he now lives alone, Lucas will to have to fight to rediscover hope and love.
When overwhelming expectations tower over him, Cecil must silence the doubt controlling him, while an aspiring film career slowly becomes the least of his worries. Written and directed by newcomer Aaron Fisher, Mr. Misunderstood takes a close look at the endless pressures that loom over one aspiring filmmaker's life, as he conveys the beautiful imperfection of our most human characteristics.
Janet recalls the summer during her teenage years when her family moved yet again for her father's job with NASA, including him teaching her to drive and her meeting her first boyfriend.
Summer holidays, the first great love and a family secret. When the 14-year-old Parisian Ali travels to the country with his little brother Selim on the bus to his grandparents, he is anything but enthusiastic. But Ali does not know yet that he will meet the handsome Réjane through his childhood friend Pierre and that his grandfather André is hiding something from the whole family. In the end it will be an unforgettable summer, but Ali will also have to grow up and take responsibility.
Otto and Martha are two teenagers who barely know each other when they have to spend the day together in Otto’s family house. To entertain each other, they start acting as if they are an adult couple. In turn, they overcome their shyness and fall in love.
ウィリアム・フォークナーの小説『自動車泥棒』を映画化した隠れた秀作。アメリカ南部。少年・ルーシアスが、祖父が手に入れた車でメンフィスへと北上する旅に同行し、冒険を満喫する。マックィーンの人情味あふれる演技が新鮮。
私立のラシュモア高校に通う行動派生徒のマックスは、並行して20前後の課外活動をこなすという忙しい毎日を送っているが、肝心の学業は不振。高校に新たに赴任した女性教師クロスに好意を抱くが、高校に無断で水族館を建てようとしたせいで退学となり、公立校に転校することに。クロスを忘れられないマックスだったが、自分の大人の友人であるブルームに彼女を取られてしまったせいで、次第に自暴自棄になっていく。