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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Shot in Mozambique, but set in an unnamed city, the film depicts the life of an orphan boy, Nelio, whose parents were killed by guerrillas. He escapes to the city and finds magic there and is soon rumoured to possess healing powers, in this violent, yet mythic coming -of-age story. Based on a novel by the popular Swedish writer Henning Mankell.
2) Yuni
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Indonesian
Description
Having rejected a marriage proposal and now facing limited options after graduation, Indonesian high-school student Yuni (Arawinda Kirana) finds herself having to define her desires within a society attempting to prescribe her fate. Navigating her burgeoning sexuality and educational prospects while coming to terms with the rigid gender politics with which they collide, Yuni observes her peers and the women around her as they reject or give in to...
4) Yangsi
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a young Tibetan boy who is recognized as the reincarnation of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the most revered Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. He is known as The Yangsi, "The one who has come again into existence." Providing a unique window into the world of Tibetan Buddhism, this film is a coming of age story with universal themes, made over a fourteen-year period by Mark Elliott, an acclaimed filmmaker...
5) Boyhood
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
©2014, [2015]
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The story of Billy, an articulate but isolated fifteen-year-old boy trying to figure out life and death, love, and rock and roll. Billy wanders through a small town in Maine, trying to traverse the frustrating gap between imagination and reality.
10) Dance me outside
Publisher
Video Service Corp
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When one of the residents of the Kidabanessee Reservation in northern Ontario is brutally murdered, four teenagers find their friendships put to the ultimate test.
Publisher
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Dramatic comedy about a street gang. The frenzied lives of the Flatbush Lords revolve around wild rumbles, steamy romance and vintage rock 'n roll. But real life intrudes when Chico falls for the new flame in school, Jane, and Stanley's steady tells him they have to get married.
13) That's what I am
Publisher
WWE Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Andy Nichol, 12, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict in fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his peers. Unfortunately for Andy, that`s all about to change. Andy is put to the test when his English teacher, Mr. Simon, pairs him up with the school`s biggest outcast, Stanley. However, what Andy will soon learn is that there truly was a method behind Mr. Simon`s madness as to why he teamed them up.
14) Spring blossom
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
Suzanne is sixteen. She is bored with people her own age. Every day on her way to high school, she passes a theater. There, she meets a 35-year-old actor named Raphaël. Despite their age difference, they find in each other an answer to their ennui and develop a strong connection. Immersed in the world of grown-ups and adult choices, Suzanne begins questioning the pitfalls of blossoming too quickly and missing out on life--the life of a 16-year-old,...
15) The tree of life
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Bonus features included.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Italiano
Description
Once upon a time, in a small family suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of the summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it's an illusion. In the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it's the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and...
17) Moonlight
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
18) Getting Grace
Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer, crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies, but ends up teaching awkward funeral director Bill how to celebrate life.
19) Restless
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Coming-of-age love story between a young man who has given up on life and a beautiful, charming young girl who possesses a deep-felt love of life and the natural world. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.
20) Restless
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill teenage girl and a teenage boy who likes to attend funerals fall for each other.
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