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1) Slam
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Raymond (Saul Williams) is a young Black performance poet living in Washington, D.C. who is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge. Danger lurks around every corner, but nothing can stop him from establishing his identity, strength, and voice. In jail, Raymond meets a prison gang leader (Bonz Malone) and a writing teacher (Sonja Sohn) who inspires him to use the power of creative expression to fight for his freedom and avoid becoming...
3) Fitting In
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This irreverent coming-of-age comedy follows 16-year-old Lindy, who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a reproductive condition. The news upends Lindy’s plans to have sex, her views on womanhood and sexuality, and her relationship with her mother. Most importantly, it changes her own relationship with herself. FITTING IN is a semi-autobiographical feature written and directed by Molly McGlynn.
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling YA novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz the film centers on the friendship between two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso who explore a new, unusual friendship and the magical road to self-discovery.
5) Minari
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
6) Uproar
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1981 New Zealand, 17-year-old Josh Waaka navigates rugby-centric St Gilbert’s College. Amidst the Springboks' tour and national protests, he embraces acting and his Māori heritage. Josh faces a choice: conform, or stand up for family, future, and identity. UPROAR is his heartwarming journey against a nation's struggle.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
While an eccentric family struggles to survive in a decaying English castle, the 17-year-old daughter (Romola Garati) unwittingly falls in love with their handsome new American landlord (Henry Thomas) causing events to spiral out of control.
8) Joyride
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A headstrong solicitor's plan to offload her new born baby to a friend, is derailed when a vulnerable but opinionated teenager steals their taxi.
Publisher
[Passion River]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.
10) Belfast
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
11) 13 Going on 30
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A delightful be-careful-what-you-wish-for romantic comedy starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. On the eve of her 13th birthday, all Jenna Rink wants is to be pretty and popular. After a humiliating experience with the coolest boy in school, Jenna makes a desperate wish for a new life. Miraculously, her wish comes true, but with one catch… it’s 17 years later and she’s a 13-year-old trapped inside her 30-year-old body.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic. A coming-of-age comedy that touches on unlikely friendships, grief and finding hope in the darkest moments.
14) Moss
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this modern day, coming of age tale set in the American south, Moss is an isolated troubled young man who, on his eighteenth birthday, embarks on an unexpected adventure never to be forgotten.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Booksmart: Two super-achieving high school senior girls make up for their clean-cut existence by enjoying a night of uncensored fun. Told from a wildly original, fresh and modern perspective, this is an unfiltered comedy about high school best friends and the bonds they create that last a lifetime.
Superbad: Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems more imporant than ever that they...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness, his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Arabic
Description
Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, it is a visually sumptuous coming-of-death fable. During her son's naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina's child will die at the age of twenty. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina's ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas, and challenges...
19) Yes, God, yes
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alice, a strait-laced Catholic student, discovers more than she bargained for after an innocent AOL chat turns racy. Seeking redemption, she attends a mysterious religious retreat to try to suppress her urges, only to come face to face with everything she's been trying so desperately to avoid.
20) Lady Bird
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.
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