I Wish You All the Best
A non-binary teen is kicked out of their North Carolina home after coming out to their ultra-religious parents. As a result, they move in with their estranged sister and her husband. Though the two are welcoming, they continue to struggle with anxiety further exacerbated by their parents' rejection. As such, they try to keep a low profile at school. However, after they meet a proudly bisexual classmate, their life begins to look a little more hopeful.
The Wise Kids
A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist church, weaving through this ensemble piece are three main characters - Brea, an introspective pastor's daughter experiencing debilitating doubt, the hyperactive Laura, Brea's best friend and a devout believer, and Tim, the open-hearted son of a single father, confronting his homosexuality for the first time. Tensions and buried feelings abound, as colleges are chosen and adults behave badly, as Brea, Laura and Tim attempt to hang onto what they have, all the while yearning to break free.
Pools
Kennedy has one day to get her shit together or get kicked out of school for good. Instead of buckling down, she rallies a ragtag crew for a midnight pool-hopping adventure through the lavish estates of her college town. But under the surface, Kennedy is searching for answers to the questions tearing her up inside in the wake of her father's death. As the secrets spill, this wild escape becomes a cathartic journey of self-discovery.
We the Animals
Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Private School
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including dressing up as a woman to access the girls' locker room. Despite Jim and Christine's efforts to spend some time alone, various shenanigans and schemes interfere.
Northwood Pie
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.
Starring Maja
In a hopeless small town in Sweden, lives Maja, 18 years old. Her highest and only dream is to become an actress. She wants to be the center of attention - for everyone to see HER, to see the beautiful person she is inside. It's just a little hard to see. Maja is severely overweight, clumsy and completely without social skills... We get to follow Maja and her struggle to realize her dreams during the last semester of high school.
Brother
Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene. A mystery unfolds when escalating tensions set off a series of events which changes the course of the brothers’ lives forever.
Can You See Us?
Rejected by his father at birth, a boy with albinism navigates a childhood of bullying, tragedy and cautious hope.
Scenes from the Suburbs
A resident of a suburban dystopia tries to reassemble his fragmented memories of life as a teen.
A Most Atrocious Thing
Oh Deer! A weekend getaway becomes deadly when bad blood turns a group of friends against each other.
Paradise Is Burning
Left to their own devices by their absent mother, Laura and her two sisters revel in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate.
Slums of Beverly Hills
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
George Washington
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a member of the group dies. Narrated by one of the children, the film follows the kids as they struggle to balance their own ambitions and relationships against a tragic lie.
The Devil's Playground
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Breaking Away
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends' and parents' annoyance.
Skating to New York
The coming-of-age journey of 5 teenage boys who leave their small, Canadian town behind and risk skating across Lake Ontario to New York on the coldest day of the year.
The Reivers
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
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Jeremiah Zagar
Director
Giovanni Pacciarelli
as
Dustin
Sheila Vand
as
Ma
Raúl Castillo
as
Paps
Frances Bay
as
Birdie Fallmouth
Phoebe Cates
as
Christine
Nadine Van der Velde
as
School Girl
Annika Foster
as
Sierra
Thomas Hedengran
as
Pappa Göran
Rolf Lassgård
as
Self
Kiana Madeira
as
Aisha
Karl Campbell
as
Black Bouncer
Aaron Pierre
as
Francis
Spike Jonze
Director
Ida Engvoll
as
Hannah
David Krumholtz
as
Ben
Mena Suvari
as
Rachel
Marisa Tomei
as
Rita
Natasha Lyonne
as
Vivian
Adam Trese
as
Alice's Boyfriend
Adriane Lenox
as
Group Home Lady
Jeffrey Wright
as
Henry
Anthony Mackie
as
Kris
David Gordon Green
Director
Will Janowitz
as
Railroad Worker
Nick Tate
as
Brother Victor
Ronald Neame
Director
Gordon Jackson
as
Gordon Lowther
Maggie Smith
as
Jean Brodie
Helen Worth
as
Schoolgirl
Robert Stephens
as
Teddy Lloyd
Daniel Stern
as
Cyril
Paul Dooley
as
Dad
Dennis Quaid
as
Mike
John Ashton
as
Mike's Brother
Dylan Everett
as
Boney Labue
Duane Murray
as
Coach Andre Simard
Jason Gedrick
as
Doug Demas
Michelle Nolden
as
Jessie Demas
Owen Bush
as
Pete Hyde
Raymond Guth
as
Uncle Ike
John McLiam
as
Van Tosch
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