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).
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...
A small town shortly before the end of the GDR: 15-year-old Ulla lives with her mother in a dilapida...
Violet and Stella spend idyllic summers at camp and the beach. As time passes, personalities and bod...
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...
On the day of a major exam that could help determine her future, eccentric Vivek decides to take a s...
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or...
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their stri...
Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing th...
The fourth short film collection gives its creators special artistic expression: as if under a magni...
Coming-of-age short film collection about adolescence. In "An Afterthought", the story of Peter Pan ...
Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true stor...
After going through a breakup and moving back home, James navigates through a "quarter life crisis" ...
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...
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 ...