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61) Bouyancy
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This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test. Spirited 14-year-old Chakra works the rice fields with his family. He yearns for independence and seeks out a local broker who can get him paid work in a Thai factory. Without telling his family, Chakra travels to Bangkok to make his fortune....
62) The Quiet Girl
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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.
63) White Girl
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Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back. Starring Morgan Saylor (*Homeland*). Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of the "Directors to Watch" award at the **Palm Springs International Film Festival**. *"WHITE GIRL is the powerful feature debut of a filmmaker with original vision and clear...
64) Palo Alto
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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...
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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...
66) Virus Tropical
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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...
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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***...
68) What Richard Did
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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.*"...
69) Camp Arrowhead
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After a tragedy Sophie attends a summer camp where she joins the archery team, forming a strong bond the other girls. Along the way, Sophie’s coach, Percy, helps her come to terms with her loss in an unexpected and magical way.
70) The Other Lamb
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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.
71) Sugar Kisses
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Nacho has a crush on Mayra, the daughter of the leader of a gang of thieves and street vendors, La Diabla. Nacho and Mayra discover love and the first steps into adulthood, despite Mayra’s mother.
72) Inbetween Girl
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After being blindsided by her parents' sudden divorce, 16-year-old artistic, sardonic Angie Chen turns to secret hookups with popular jock Liam behind the back of his adored social media influencer girlfriend Sheryl. As Angie contends with her parents' divorce and her secret fling with Liam, she comes to discover what she wants and who she wants to be.
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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...
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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**....
75) Ham on Rye
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HAM ON RYE, a coming-of-age comedy centered on the nervous excitement of youth and the strange horror of entering adulthood uses an expansive ensemble of over one hundred performers, including non-actors, musicians, 90's Nickelodeon child stars, and more, to explore a suburban community’s relationship with a prom-like ritual and the decay of the human spirit. It begins with the crowd-pleasing spirit of a John Hughes movie and fades slowly into an...
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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...
77) Combat Girls
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This searing coming-of-age teen drama follows two suburban girls – from vastly different backgrounds – who both become ensnared in the Neo-Nazi youth movement. Twenty-year-old Marisa is a hardcore believer, a semi-skinhead whose body is adorned with Nazi tattoos. Fourteen-year-old Svenja is a sheltered, spoiled, straight-A student who becomes fascinated with the group because of her Neo-Nazi boyfriend. They begin as adversaries, but soon become...
78) Haze
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Nick Forest, a college freshman, wants nothing more than to join a fraternity. However, in the wake of a brutal hazing death on campus, his estranged older brother, Pete, is rallying against the Greek system. Nick ignores Pete's protests and rushes Psi Theta Epsilon, notorious for its rumored hazing practices. As Nick begins the pledging process, he relishes the bonding and the partying. A modern retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Dionysus --...
79) Tracktown
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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...
80) The Erlprince
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An exceptionally gifted teenage boy is about to start studying physics at a university specializing in the theory of parallel worlds. He has an extraordinary mind and a wounded soul, which his mother, who steers his life, seems incapable of healing. Then a Man appears in their lives and, as the Boy passes from the hands of the Mother into his care, a new order is established. Their torturous road forms a bond between the three central characters,...
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