The Burning Snail

While her mom is away, a teen sneaks out of the hippie commune where she lives and embarks on a life-changing adventure to discover who her father is.

Three second-generation teens from Toronto navigate the everyday pressures of high school and their futures.

What happens within the walls of an American high school?

Madrid is the meeting point of eleven stories of people in physical and spiritual transit. Eleven honest and direct stories, young and necessary as their protagonists, that arise from the pedagogical, therapeutic and cinematographic experience of the Inside Cinema School organized by Pedro Sara and Violeta Pagán (The sensitive ages of light) in Matadero Madrid. Eleven new stories that speak of life and hopes, of borders and territories, of growth and survival. An exciting polyphonic story that brings us closer to the here and now.

The story of Sigga, a 17 year-old girl trying to leave home in Iceland, and make her way to California.

A teenage boy battling cancer discovers a way to change the lives of the ones he meets.

AWA is a young French woman originally from Senegal. She is a law student who practices football regularly with her neighbor friends. But his passion is not everyone's taste.

A teen girl’s experiences online and IRL blur together in this quietly inventive short by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew. Through an ingenious use of subtitles, Durand and Chew seamlessly toggle between the banalities of young life and the fizzy, yearning commentary running beneath those same experiences when shared online.

Alice is a quiet young girl. She lives with her mother and younger sister. Her best friend is Josse and they used to have fun and go swimming together. But everything changed when Josse met Oliva and Sara. Alice was left alone with no friends. Olivia, Sara and their friends starts to bully and provoke Alice. It gets so far that Alice thinks of taking her own life. But what happens when someone starts to care for her?

Trying to impress, Jules invites some partygoers back to his family’s bowling alley. The anticipated party quickly becomes anything but a party.

LPDM by Nawal Kaffouf

A seventeen year old sex-positive YouTuber starts a social media war against her Christian abstinence program.

Chloé a beautiful teenager is getting bullied in school. Julia, her mother, won't be able to face the consequences of her daughter's despair.

Walter struggles with stealing pills for his friends.

These five award-winning coming of age short films offer a glimpse of how boys and young men tackle life's difficult desires: confronting one's demons, understanding sexual relationships, gaining the respect of one's father, or simply running away from it all. This is only the start of their complex formative years, where not every question has an answer, and not every answer makes sense. The short films are: Boys [Pojkarna] (2015); Ioana (2015); Kiem Holijanda (2017); Picnic [Piknik] (2015); Tomer & Elias [Tomer en Elias] (2016).

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, Caleb finds love in the most unlikely of places.

Adam - a dreamy teenager - devotes his existence to Sofia, a mature enigmatic painter. Through his eyes, their relationship nears utopia. But the day Sofia meets Adam's friend Jay, everything changes.

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

Hannah is a seventeen-year-old girl who struggles to find her place in the world. Around the time that she gives up all hope of fitting in, her grandfather falls ill. She and her brother, Charlie, drive up the coast of West Michigan in order to visit him on his deathbed. However, their journey north takes a turn after their car breaks down in rural Michigan, and Hannah's search for meaning grows more crucial than ever.