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21) The Quiet Girl
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life – until the night of Franky's epic 17th birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**, and **Palm...
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
In the mid-1970's, in a sleepy Michigan community, live the Lisbon sisters, five teenagers whose beauty has bewitched a group of neighborhood boys. Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett and James Woods star in Sofia Coppola's feature debut. Nominated for the Golden Camera Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A disarmingly poetic - and specifically female - vision of adolescence that it belongs in a category of its own." - Moira MacDonald, **Seattle Times***...
24) Palo Alto
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
An unflinching portrait of adolescent lust, boredom, and self-destruction that centers around a shy young girl (Emma Roberts) on the cusp of an illicit relationship with her soccer coach (James Franco). Nominated for Best Film at the **Venice Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*"Palo Alto" is a delicate tapestry of suburban gothic, romance and realism, with a surprising...
25) Tracktown
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Plumb Marigold is a famous but lonely distance runner preparing for the biggest race of her life: The Olympic Trials. But when an injury forces her to take an unexpected day off, Plumb wanders into a bakery where the aimless boy behind the counter catches her eye. Featuring actual Olympic athletes in several lead roles, including co-writer and director, Alexi Pappas. This story captures the experience of a young Olympic hopeful with a degree of authenticity...
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Sixteen years old and home-schooled his entire life, Liam (Daniel Doheny) is a sheltered, socially awkward genius whose universe revolves around his single mom, Claire (Judy Greer). When college collides with love at first sight, Liam deliberately bombs his final exams and forces his way into public school so he can let loose for the first time. Under the borrowed identity of a sick student, Liam sets his sights on Anastasia, a confident and popular...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
1986. Mexico City. Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere: not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground nightlife scene: post punk, sexual liberty, and drugs that challenges the relationship with his best friend Gera and lets him find his passion for art.
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at **Sundance Film Festival**....
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at **Sundance Film Festival**....
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
When misfit Irene gets suspended, she is assigned two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she enlists the seniors to audition for a talent-search reality show. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Winner of the Comedy Vanguard award at the **Austin Film Festival**. Winner of Best Feature Film and Best Writing in a Feature at the **Canadian Comedy Awards**. *"There's...
29) About Scout
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Scout, a rebellious teenager from rural Texas, and Sam, a wealthy but depressed New Yorker, are total opposites. When the two meet, they form an instant bond. After Scout loses the only thing in the world that really matters to her -- her little sister, Lulu -- she convinces Sam to go on a road trip to help get Lulu back. Traveling across West Texas in a stolen car, they skip from one tiny town to the next looking for her sister. After a convenience...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A dreamlike portrait of adolescence unfolds over one hot, hazy summer, as two young brothers must come to terms with a friend's mysterious death. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Narrative at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"Traces of classic coming-of-age dramas such as Stand by Me and River's Edge are evoked in this lyrical and low-key reflection on sudden mortality and childhood's end." - Steve...
31) The Pool
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
The story of Venkatesh, a hotel worker in India, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the home. Not content to simply dream about a different life, Venkatesh is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants — indeed, about the world around him — and his curiosity changes the shape...
32) Kissing Candice
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
17-year-old Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, only finding solace in her vivid imagination. When a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes increasingly entangled with a dangerous local gang. Nominated for the People's Choice Award and Best Film at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Nominated for Best Film at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** *"The end result is a visual thrill and marks Aoife...
33) And Then I Go
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In the cruel world of junior high, Edwin suffers in a state of anxiety and alienation alongside his only friend, Flake. Misunderstood by their families and demoralized at school daily, their fury simmers quietly until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release. Based on the acclaimed novel by Jim Shepard, this unflinching look at adolescence explores how the powerful bonds of childhood friendship and search for belonging can become a matter...
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Three teenage girls explore their first taste of freedom: Charlotte, the recently heartbroken, Megane, the anti-love anarchist, and Aube, a virgin who dreams of love - all three smitten by the guys at the Toy Depot. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"An absorbing dramedy about friends, gossip, feelings, and sex." - Monica Castillo, **RogerEbert.com***
35) The Other Lamb
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women, teenage Selah lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. When her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence.
36) Virus Tropical
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Born in a not-so-conventional family, Paoloa grows up between Ecuador and Colombia and finds herself unable to fit in any mold. With a unique feminine vision of the world, she will have to fight against prejudice and struggle for her independance while universe is struck by a series of crisis. Nominated for a Crystal Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**, Winner of an Audience Award at **SXSW Film Festival**. *"This light reflection on...
37) What Richard Did
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Richard (Jack Reynor) is a popular young man with a bright future but when a drunken brawl after a house party ends with deadly consequences, his perfect life is changed forever. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Winner of five awards including Best Film at the **Irish Film and Television Awards**. "*What Richard Did is an engrossing and intelligent drama that throbs in the mind for hours after the final credits.*"...
38) Funny Ha Ha
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Critically-acclaimed by ***The New York Times*** and ***Film Comment*** as one of the best films of 2005, Andrew Bujalski's debut feature film, FUNNY HA HA, is true U.S. independent filmmaking at its best. When you graduate college, you easily sashy into the world of adulthood, start a career, and get serious, right? Wrong. Marnie has left college, but not her drinking habits or her bad taste in men. What's more, Marnie can't seem to find a permanent...
39) Feeling Through
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
FEELING THROUGH is a coming of age story that follows 18-year-old Tereek, a kind but guarded teen wandering the streets of New York, desperate for a place to crash, and his encounter with Artie, a DeafBlind man in need of help getting home. What begins as an awkward meeting between strangers becomes an intimate bond between friends, and a nightlong journey that forever changes Tereek. It's ultimately someone who can neither see nor hear Tereek who...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - a venerable, impossible-to-please music critic with an insatiable lust for fame, fortune, and men. It isn't long before the rapid pace at which Johanna's life is changing becomes overwhelming and she runs face-first into a devastatingly real, existential crisis: Is this the type of girl she wants to become? Or does she need to start over and...
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