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The Long Home

Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, a young and headstrong carpenter, who lost his father years before to a human evil, is forced to make difficult moral choices to face up to that evil.

Big Time Adolescence

Story of a teenage boy coming of age in his dull suburban town under the destructive guidance of his best friend, a charismatic college dropout.

Hairstyles of the Damned

Set in Chicago's South Side in the early 1990s, this story follows a year in the life of high school student Brian Oswald. His friend Gretchen, a heavyset, fight-provoking, punk-music fan, travels with him through the adolescent world of shopping malls, music stores, and suburban streets. And Brian is madly in love with her. Unfortunately, Gretchen loves Tony, a 20-something white-power hooligan who hangs out in arcades to pick up impressionable high school girls.

The Absolutely True Dia...

A teen named Junior, a budding cartoonist, grows up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, he leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Crying in H Mart

A half-Korean daughter returns to small town Oregon to care for her Korean mother. They learn to see and accept one another through the formative power of music and the vibrant flavors of Korean cooking.

An Autumn Summer

The coming of age romance follows young lovers Kevin and Cody (McKenna, Maxwell) as they navigate their last summer together before life takes them to different colleges. Amongst the beauty of Northern Michigan, the pair discover the depth of their feelings as they’re tested by their conflicting futures.

Rearranged

A tenacious teen girl is raised in the patriarchy of wealthy India in the 1990s. She defies an arranged marriage and leaves her family and its fortunes behind, in pursuit of a life and love of her own in America.

Summer 1993

Six-year-old Frida looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother’s apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Although her aunt, uncle, and younger cousin Anna welcome her with open arms, it’s only very slowly that Frida begins to get used to her new home in the countryside.

The Quench

Tai, a Vietnamese-American teen, is placed in a rural town after a harrowing encounter with a foster father. His new foster parents provide a nurturing but reclusive lifestyle. The husband, Peter, a knifemaker by trade, introduces Tai to the craft, but as Tai is groomed into a more refined version of himself, being drawn out and shaped by Peter, he quickly discovers the true dangers of becoming the knifemaker’s protégé.

Adulting

A coming-of-age film with themes of marriage, divorce and parenting through the lens of adolescence.

Be Here Now

A group of young people at a music festival have chance encounters which change their lives forever. A young photo-blogger must navigate the festival's glitterati in order to gain access to the exclusive backstage area and ultimately make it as an artist.

Me, You

Teenage boy Marco sails the tranquil seas around Naples with a hardened fisherman. Marco falls love with an enigmatic girl, Caia, whose painful past fuels a ferocious resentment in him, setting off alarm bells.

My Life On The Road

Feminist, journalist and activist Gloria Steinem becomes a galvanizing symbol for equality via surprising encounters along the road that help shape her.

Sumo

Jonah, a silver tongued and overweight kid with low self-esteem, meets Hana, a Japanese female janitor at his school – and an ex Sumo wrestler. Along with a pedantic and friendless building manager, the unlikely trio set about building a Dohjo, and training for the US Sumo Open.