GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future studies and desired professions. Instead, they face arbitrariness, mistrust and reprisals. Their only chance for a self-determined life lies in fleeing across the Baltic Sea. Fifty kilometres of water separate them from freedom - and only a thin connecting rope around their wrists saves them from absolute loneliness.

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

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

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 ...

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...

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the ...

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 boys d...

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

Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or i...

One day, college student Keiko, who is looking for a job, learns that the person she had feelings fo...

Family tensions are slowly eroding what should have been a carefree summer for the young boy Jakov. ...

A shy teenage boy's inability to say no is tested when a headstrong girl drags him on a mystical jou...

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. Th...

Nancy Savoca’s second student film follows two twelve-year olds, Bobby (Joey D’Arelli) and Denise (K...

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. ...