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 ...

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

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

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

It’s summer in London. On her final day of freedom, Ziba, a promising British-Iranian teen, leads he...

Fourteen-year-old Li Xing lives in a district full of ruins and reconstruction. School brings him no...

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...

14-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbou...

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

Eelis is skipping classes, mom and dad are on the verge of divorce, sister has yet another boyfriend...

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between t...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

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

A young black ballet dancer from a South London Council Estate must learn how to survive in two oppo...

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...