Beit Byoot
Set in a dystopian dollhouse, Jameela, a friendly little girl wants nothing more than to fit in with the other girls in the house.
Rape Play
RAPE PLAY is an experimental documentary that explores fanfiction writing amongst teenage girls online and the learned narrativization of sexual experiences. Through interviews, lyrical essays, and fantastical reenactment, it touches on internet history, sexual assault discourse, and the magical cultural production happening in the bedrooms of teenage girls worldwide every day.
Taympers
An innocent child Yumi is suddenly introduced to the world of womanhood when she witnesses her older sister Chloe feel pain in her body.
Guilt
Reyhan, raised in a religious family, arrives to spend her summer holidays at her grandmother Ummu's house in a conservative central Anatolian village, accompanied by her mother Hatice, and her 6 year old brother Mehmet. The 13 year old is gripped by a state of inner turmoil. She has just had her first period and dreads the consequences of being unable to perform the required religious rites. Reyhan's concerns mount after she finds out the water supply at her grandmother's village house is cut off. She is desperate to find a way to perform the required religious ablution rites, which she has always been told will protect her from attacks by djinns and facial disfiguration. She starts having nightmares. At the same time, Reyhan is also determined to help Şükran, her best friend in the village.
In Lieu of Flowers
In the wake of Megan's sudden passing, her best friends Frances and Taylor work together to honor her wishes to remove any contraband items from her bedroom in efforts to preserve her image to her mourning parents. Confronted by conflicting perceptions of Megan and approaches to grief, Frances and Taylor wrestle with the question: Will they remain friends without her?
Sophie Jones
Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and growing up, Jessie Barr’s SOPHIE JONES provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen-year-old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again, while holding herself together, in this sensitive, acutely realized, and utterly relatable coming-of-age story.
Girls’ Stories
Jagoda and Zuzia giggle in the opening scenes in the way that only 11-year-old girls can. Together they are the center of their own changing world. On the face of it, not much happens in the lives of these Polish best friends, but big changes are on the way. The end of primary school is in sight, and the girls are impatiently awaiting first love, budding breasts and first periods.
Norn
A young girl is approaching the end of a cycle, when she gets a visit from a goddess named Norn. Unaware of Norn's intentions, the girl is very excited to create a deep and intimate friendship with her. Until Norn tells her the truth.
My First Miracle
The world is full of miracles, especially during the shimmering heat of a seaside summer. While vacationing on the Baltic Sea coast, an unusually deep friendship blossoms between eleven-year-old Dole and Hermann, a man in his mid-forties. Standing on the threshold of adolescence, the girl rebels against her mother’s plans to move in with a new boyfriend, knowing full well that she has no desire to grow up. It all seems too complicated, requiring too many compromises. Hermann, a gentle family man who has never lost touch with his inner child, fires Dole’s imagination with his fantastical tales, while she brings color to his monotonous life. The two get along famously. A profound bond of kindred spirits develops between them, a love that endures beyond the holiday. Yet, back in their everyday lives, those around them are far from understanding. Without hesitation, they decide to run away together—back to the sea, the place where their fragile happiness truly belongs.
Sunkiss
Teenage best girlfriends decide to go on a dangerous joy ride with two older men and their lives are changed forever.
Aftertaste
In the Small Wood
On a warm summer afternoon, adolescents Laure and Vincent set out into a small, isolated wood not far from the village to have a quiet picnic just for the two of them. However, their plans for a romantic getaway are disrupted when Laure's younger sister, Sarah, stubbornly manages to tag along. As the oppressive afternoon heat sets in and their minds become increasingly fuddled by the wine, the atmosphere shifts, eventually leading the two teenagers to awkwardly express their hidden fondness for one another in a tender coming-of-age moment. Sarah—whom both of them had completely forgotten about—witnesses the scene.
Sunday Girls
On October 25 1984, an afternoon for three girls takes a thrilling and rather mystical turn after following a peculiar boy into the surrounding forest of their college town.
Tea
After a messy and flirty party last Friday night, best friends Sophie and Margot sip and 'spill' the 'tea' about their dramatic, slightly delusional love lives.
March 25th, 2015
“March 25th, 2015” (Directed by Alexandra LoCascio & Rebecca Rutledge) follows a group of middle school girls on the day Zayn Malik left One Direction. The die-hard Directioners must survive a spiral into emotional chaos, an unexpected soul-searching journey for any semblance of an answer, and… an algebra quiz that's due tomorrow.
Retrotherapy
Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, reviving her grandmother's years of feminist activism. In this troubled game, Manon will learn to become a woman.
Wounded Light
Claire is in an emotional and creative pause, until she finds her old projector and, with it, a way to reconnect with her childhood self.
Rooftop Lempicka
While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home. As their friendship grows, she discovers that Ngoc is secretly a sex worker. Meanwhile, an art book of Tamara de Lempicka’s female nudes, stolen from a bookshop, silently bears witness.
The Playground
After years of traveling, Anyas parents have decided to return from Australia to their native France, and she has to attend a public school for the first time in her life. But normal everyday school life quickly causes problems for the girl. On the first day, she gets a shot with a soccer ball on the head. When no one wants to apologize for this, a violent argument immediately ensues. So she messed it up with the locals right from the start. Anya becomes an outsider, which doesn't even really bother her. But Zoé, Nils and Jade, who are also a bit different, take care of her. A new clique is formed. But the pretty outsider would prefer to be friends with Nathan, the school director's son. But he gives her the cold shoulder because it wouldn't be cool to be interested in girls in front of his buddies. Meanwhile, the girls hatch a plan to win their place in the schoolyard. A real fight ensues between the students. Now it's girls against boys. But how far can a dispute between children go?
Limerence
Nora is an eccentric young woman with a debilitating infatuation with her newspaper delivery man — a man she has never even dared to speak to... Things begin to change when one fateful night, he appears to her in a dreamlike vision where he promises her everything she has ever longed for. Convinced this is her chance at true love, Nora decides to take a leap of faith in pursuit of her prince charming’s undivided affection.