Like tears in the rain, water is the metaphor for growing pains and so much more in these four tales about young boys coming to terms with a host of emotions for the very first time. These polished productions and festival favourites are brought to you by a host of talented directors from across Germany, Denmark, France and the Netherlands. The short films are: Ocean [Océan] (2013); Go Daan Go! [Daan Durft] (2014); The Boy in the Ocean (2016); Beach Boy (2011).

Eleven-year-old Monica Shah is a brainy schoolgirl whose science fair project about growing raspberr...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Fifteen-year-old Cobain tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle....

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...

Lonely and closeted, Xiao-Wei turns to the internet—until real-life feelings bring more questions th...

Lonely college freshman Alex has closed himself off from his peers, who all appear to have this whol...

On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wa...

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...

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...

A 17-year old Missouri teen discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end h...

5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum af...

13-year-old Lucas makes a new friend in his classmate Lais, and joins her on an epic journey to find...

In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humili...

In a seemingly easy theatre exercise, Rebeca, a young Roma woman, student at an elite acting school,...

Summer holidays, first love and a family secret. When 14-year-old Ali travels to the country with h...

Lucas Simons, an 11-year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When L...