A student in her final year of high school battles a silent illness, which she hides from her mother, as she continues to be quietly overwhelmed by the pressures of family, peers and society.
Social & External
Abby
Angela
An innocent mix-up leads to disaster when two girlfriends encounter an extraterrestrial substance at a winter music festival.
Jimmy is a young man who is going through a very difficult time in his life. He meets Joe, who works for a private company that offers free health and medical care to anyone who needs it. Joe helps Jimmy to relive his past and show him that no man is a failure who has friends.
In the early 1980s, 13-year-old Beatrice Gravel's comfortable world—family, school, and church—fractures when her mother moves out to 'self actualize', leaving Beatrice and her younger sister Chloe with their devastated father. As Beatrice doubles down on a plan to 'fix' her family, she barrels through bullies, friendship blowups, a make-out party, and a kleptomaniac babysitter—forcing her to decide who she wants to be when she can’t get what she wants.
A playful exploration of underground responses to social mores in 1970s Ireland, told through a day in the life of two young women.
An impressionable young woman is thrust into a dilemma with her best friends charming brother. Assumptions lead to a sensitive situation.
Of Games and Escapes is a psychological drama about Patrick McBride, a career salesman and amateur board game developer, who needs to make a difference in the world before he ends his own.
Fifteen year-old Ben Garber has a secret. A secret which leads him to infiltrate the household of a family in a neighboring town...
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a vampire?
Joanna descends to the Port daily to find love. Inspired by an urban myth, one woman's story, could be a country's tale.
Helene and Martha spend the summer holidays in the polish cottage of Marthas parents where they get as close as never before. Two women, one hot summer, and a short goodbye.
After a devastating house fire, the all-girl punk band Girlgasm must put their differences aside to make it to Paris in time for their gig.
"Me + You" follows a young gay boy’s experience of fragmentation from his inner child essence due to judgment from his family, peers, society, and the Roman Catholic Church.
A popular high school hunk Johnny takes a late-night dip with cute loner Ben. Fifteen years later, these two men — who haven’t seen each other since a late-night tryst in high school — bump into each other unexpectedly.
An aimless college student comes upon the aftermath of a murder scene one night, and without thinking, grabs the titular weapon. He takes it home and keeps it safely hidden away, but curiosity gradually begins to consume him.
An Englishman arrives in a remote French town near the coast to collect his broken-down car. What he sees there will change his life forever.
When her best friend makes the girls' varsity basketball team instead of her, high school sophomore Julia must overcome her jealousy to maintain their friendship.
An unusual pair on the run are forced to find solace through each other when home is not an option.
In a quiet house in the suburbs, a lonely woman’s grisly past comes back to haunt her when an old friend knocks at the door.
A 23-year-old revisits the family car he grew up with to experience the thrill of childhood again...
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
The story of two brothers, Tom and Jake, and their problematic relationship.
When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins to take a heavy toll on her and her family.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.
Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Kate has been absent from high school for a week due to a fractured foot. Upon returning, she discovers that her clique of friends has devised a new, secret plan codenamed "Lick the Star."
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.
