Carlos tries to deal with his social anxiety by seeking to meet María, a girl in his class that he likes. However, he does not achieve it....

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her...

In an alternative Quebec, private clinics offer partial brainwashing treatment to remedy post-traumatic shock. Charlotte Roy, a young woman who lost...

After a tragic event breaks her family apart, a teenage girl abandons her dreams of a music career and is thrown into the foster care system.

A group of young men return to their home town in order to turn their friend's final days into a celebration of life and friendship.

A man inherits his estranged father’s prized possession — a derelict porno theatre — in Kire Paputts’ second feature, about...

This 3-minute short film by Iain Delavan was created at a dark time in his life. In his usual abstract and expressive style, Delavan depicts an...

Faith Mitchell, a loving wife and mother, struggles to keep her family together amidst financial hardships and personal loss.

A young woman raised in the US returns to her birth country in Eastern Europe after a devastating tragedy. Questioning her sanity and her sexuality,...

Stuck in Saturday detention, two teen girls with a strong distaste for each other quickly find themselves on the run when they stumble across a dead...

A charismatic and unshakeably confident young man haunted by an unchangeable past and a future shaped by it. Scarred by his estranged father's...

In 1976, four working-class friends come of age in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers, as were their fathers...

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who...

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and...

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an...

A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.

When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her...

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world...

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex,...

Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life...

Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile mental institution, where he encounters a group of...