Synopsis:
This film is a reflection of my own life. It is about growing up as a stranger in Czechia. It reflects feelings of generation of young Vietnamese having lived in there since childhood and who speak Czech better than Vietnamese.
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This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragedy
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Lou tells their story, the way they feel about gender. Girl or boy, he/she chose not to choose, for now.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Coming-of-Age
- Experimental
- Making of
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A poetic portrait about how Beyong, a 30-year-old transgender who was forced to suppress her true self growing up, gives in to her subconsciousness and starts her transformation to the woman she is today.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Coming-of-Age
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Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Coming-of-Age
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How does one grow up between an absent Iraqi father and a pervasive Jewish mother? Tossed around by the great upheavals of the modern times, Tim tries as hard as he can to find his place in the world.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Coming-of-Age
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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In Never like the first time! four different people tell us, in their own words, what it was like to lose their virginity. The diverse experiences recounted in the four different animated stories, some tragic and some comic, are told by both the teenagers and the old people that appear in the stories and they all have one thing in common – it is ”never like the first time!” The people behind the voices remain anonymous and they explain sincerely how significant losing their virginity was to them.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Coming-of-Age
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Five Ivorian children had to flee when war broke out in the Ivory Coast after the presidential election in 2010. The children talk about hopes and dreams for the future.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Coming-of-Age
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Rob takes a drag on a neighbor’s crack pipe, his bills start piling up and one day, a letter arrives: his house is going to be repossessed. He packs a tent, gets on his bike and starts cycling.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragicomedy
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A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Experimental
- Making of
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We Were a Sterile Bomb is a coming-of-age story of 21-year-old Avi, living in a small southern town in 1997’s Israel. Avi, a lonely introvert, wanders in and out of the city. An encounter with a young man his age shakes his numb world.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Coming-of-Age
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R slowly turns 26 and freaks out: what if she never will be young and attractive again?
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Experimental