Constant Wegman (Benja Bruijning), a 14 year old boy, raised by his grandmother (Carry Tefsen) in Zeedijk, Amsterdam. She is the owner of a cafe-hotel “De Rode Laars” (“The Red Boots”). The dreaming Constant runs away from this world of drunkards, gamblers, fighters by writing poems. His grandmother wants him to take control of the cafe. Then Constant secretly subscribes to a national poem writing competition: a new Vondel is born!
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At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...
When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny ki...
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon...
In the pink-tinged nostalgia of the mid-90s, best friends Addie and Ella's sleepover takes an unexpe...
Fuelled by a desperation and determination to break free from their abusive and dysfunctional home l...
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...
A 12-year-old girl lives life on the run alongside her father who has Tourette Syndrome. Desperately...
A week before his First Communion, Youssef, a ten-year-old Maronite boy, discovers masturbation and ...
On the day of Gandhi Jayanti, when meat sale is prohibited nationwide, an 11-year-old girl goes on a...
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...
Championed in her sporting activities by her teenage brother, Pierre-Amelia’s innocent world shatter...
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life ar...
A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care...
Anora, a Tajik teenage girl, experiences the coming of age. Due to the ambiguity related to her abse...
A young boy frequently visits an old man who lives alone, keeping him always in good company. One ni...
After hearing about a Brazilian folklore party at the neighborhood school, Fernando, an 8-year-old c...