Adolescents in the amphibious situation between child and adult try to cope with their emotions and their environment. Right there they would need limits, a foothold and hope and yet they signalize the opposite. Between loss, extinct love, parental problems and their own needs the parent generation tries to understand or at least to save something.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Fifteen-year-old Sarah has returned to Colmar, where she has taken up high-performance figure skatin...

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

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Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

After a year of online pillow-talk, Ben, a shy Kosovar teen, is exhilarated to finally meet his firs...

Three sisters, Stella, Luce and Aria, live in an isolated house, immersed in the shadows, submitted ...

During an improvised trip to the California mountains, a self-conscious French girl studying in the ...

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life ar...

Twenty-something June is anxiously awaiting the outcome of her most recent job interview. One day, w...

Years after his teen romance with Milea, a now-adult Dilan tells his version of their love story whe...

New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, and soon strikes up a relations...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...

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