Portraits from a Fire

Not everything that happens on a school playground is play. Short film about LGBT effects in school.

16-year-old Marianne will be confirmed. She is reluctant to do this, but her mother is more than happy for her to complete the confirmation. Marianne...

Puberty is an ordeal and a joy. Children become adolescents: how do they react to this development? With the help of four different short films, the...

A young man looks back at his past as he gets ready to leave his childhood apartment.

A small town shortly before the end of the GDR: 15-year-old Ulla lives with her mother in a dilapidated old building where not even the electricity...

A young girl, Eva, decides to run away from home on her 16th birthday, in hopes of a more accepting life in New York City.

Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved...

A young Ojibwa girl from 1770 marries a Scottish fur trader and leaves home for the shores of Georgian Bay. Although the union is beneficial for her...

Young and imaginative Leila is ready to do anything to escape the boredom of everyday life with her father. Her new boyfriend seems to be the key to...

With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing...

Sin and Illy have a plan: on a Greek island they want to get 'clean' on their own. But the intention of the two girls fails already on the way to the...

An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.