The Fear (2013)

In a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. He plays with friends, horsing around, sniggering about sex, going to an outdoor movie. He works, fishing and making bricks of mud. And, he's starting to notice girls. He and his best friend fight, and he learns to his consternation that he's a foundling. A death in the family pushes Beshkempir even faster toward adult roles: he must brush tears from his eyes, lead a funeral procession, and reconcile with his friend. Then, he borrows a bicycle and calls on Aynura: courtship begins.

Joca (Eduardo Macedo), um jovem de treze anos, descobre o amor quando conhece Basano (Adeli Benitez), uma menina paraguaia. No entanto, para conquistá-la, Joca passará por grandes dificuldades relativos a problemas de fronteira entre o Brasil e o Paraguai e a relação seu irmão Fernando (Cauã Reymond), um homem que pertence a uma perigosa gangue de motociclistas.

No ano de 1984, quando a ditadura militar se enfrequece, dois jovens baianos de 16 anos começam a perceber que estão vivendo uma fase importante do país. A descoberta do contexto político, com as eleições diretas para Presidente, mistura-se às descobertas sexuais e ao fim da adolescência.

Juninho, Menor, Neguinho, Adilson e Eldo são jovens moradores do bairro do Nacional, na periferia de Contagem. Divididos entre o trabalho e o lazer, o crime e a esperança, cada um deles terá que encontrar maneiras de superar os obstáculos e domar o tigre que mora dentro deles.

A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life.

At the impressionable age of 16, young Mateo faces a dilemma about the direction his life will take when his corrupt uncle asks him to infiltrate a local Barrancabermeja theatre group to uncover its members' political activities.

A advogada Helena é uma jovem idealista que defende crianças e jovens infratores. Ela tem a custódia de seu irmão caçula, Caio. Órfãos, os dois têm um relacionamento de muita cumplicidade e o afeto entre eles é visível, mas Caio é um adolescente instável e impulsivo, que vive cercado por amigos de reputação duvidosa. Um dia, o jovem comete um delito e torna-se réu na Vara da Infância e Juventude de Santos, local onde Helena trabalha.

When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives apart from them and is mainly heard the phone. Most of all she wants to reunite a family that simply doesn’t work — like a defective TV set. She lives in the hope of bringing her mother back home. Her 13 year old brother Nikodem’s Holy Communion is a pretext for the family to meet up. Ola is entirely responsible for preparing the perfect family celebration. “Communion” reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that failure is not final. Especially when love is in question.

An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.

25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the Central Africa Jungle and stayed. He than recorded over 1000 hours of original BaAka music. Now he is part of the BaAka community and raises his pygmy son, Samedi. Fulfilling an old promise, Louis takes Samedi to America. On this journey Louis realizes he is not part of this globalized world anymore but globalization has also arrived in the rainforest. The BaAka depend on Louis for their survival. Father and son return to the melodies of the jungle but the question remains: How much longer will the songs of the forest be heard?

Cris e Peu, seu irmão mais velho, são deixados na beira de uma estrada pelos próprios pais. Os irmãos foram castigados por brigar constantemente durante uma viagem à praia. Após algumas horas, percebendo que os pais não retornaram, Peu parte em busca de um posto de gasolina. Cris permanece no local por um dia inteiro e, sem notícias dos pais ou do irmão, decide percorrer ela mesma o caminho de volta para casa.

Guigo is in love with Sabrina, with whom he exchanges messages through his cell phone. He is the son of separated parents. One day he and his friend Túlio travel to a fishery with their father, Roberto, and his friend, Paulo.

Déficit follows one day of crisis in the life of Cristobal (Gael Garcia Bernal), a spoilt, rich kid throwing a party for his friends at his parents' luxurious villa. A big fence and a live-in staff of servants are there to shield Cristobal from the harsher realities of life, while his younger sister Elisa (Camila Sodi), there with her own crowd, uses drugs as her chosen means of escape. There are, however, some realities that cannot be kept at bay forever, like the reason behind their parents' prolonged absence, the gradual breakdown in the villa's amenities, and Cristobal's dwindling university prospects.

La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L'Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution (that culminated in the Revolution of 1848) to the May 68 generation through a chronicle of the parallel lives of a pair of childhood friends, the pragmatic Henri and idealistic Jules as they leave their bucolic, rural hometown to separately pursue their baccalaureate - and real world - educations.

A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.

A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.

This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s.

É o auge do verão no camping de Maremma, na Toscana. É a última tentativa de Vincenzo e Adriana, um jovem casal à beira do divórcio, para salvarem seu casamento, que está ameaçado. Nic, seu filho de 12 anos, é como seu pai - não consegue controlar sua violência. Ele consegue se impor num pequeno grupo de crianças, mas não consegue expressar seus sentimentos por Marie, uma adolescente dilacerada pelo abandono de seu pai.

Young Jorgelina feels estranged from her boy-crazy older sister, who has entered adolescence and doesn't want to hang around with little kids anymore. Finding refuge in their Boyita camper-van, Jorgelina travels with her father to the countryside, where her lifelong playmate Mario is undergoing some unexpected changes.

Ao chegar em casa, Johannes, um diretor de cinema, se depara com uma inexplicável tragédia: sua esposa, Signe, uma mulher emocionalmente frágil, matou Maria, sua filha de 9 meses. Ele está convencido de sua inocência e tenta evitar a inevitável condenação da esposa. Uma série de flashbacks podem dar a chave para a compreensão da tragédia.