Young Adult Matters

The March

September 2020 •Spanish

In 1910, a young laundress leaves her rural home, fleeing from her father's violence. With her, her two sisters and their baby brother. Along the way they try to break free from the past and rediscover a future.

FREYA

October 2020 •English

A young woman attempts to regain control of her body in a future where social media and the State operate as one.

Derailed

November 2005 •English

When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

It's Not Her Sin

January 1959 •Korean

After the woman who nearly killed her is brought to trial, Eun-hie finds that she must take the stand to give evidence. However, the defense attempts to turn the tables on her by revealing her sordid past and trying to make it seem as if she deserved what happened to her.

Mirror

August 2016 •English

Micro short film directed by Portuguese multi-award winning Sara Eustáquio, 16, starring Canadian young actress Jaimie Marchuk. Student project produced at New York Film Academy, in NYC.

Violette Nozière

May 1978 •French

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

December 2013 •English

The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

Call Jane

October 2022 •English

A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.

Bottled Up

January 2022 •English

Increasingly strenuous relationships and repressed emotions lead to the inevitable 'shattering' of a teenager's bottled-up anger.

Life as a House

October 2001 •English

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

Class of 1984

August 1982 •English

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.

Runaway Daughters

January 1956 •English

Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.

A Tame Song for a Brave People

August 1976 •Spanish

Gilberto, a young man from the countryside, arrives in the city with the aim of carving out a future for himself. Initially he is dazzled by the sparkling image of the city, the spoiler of civilization, which will batter him until his personality undergoes a radical change.

Cyankali

November 1977 •German

The Actor The Liar The Murderer

April 2024 •German

In the last days of their tumultuous relationship Julian and Lara are confronted with a life changing event and now must bear the consequences.

Arum

August 2023 •Indonesian

A single mother struggles to raise her only daughter on her own.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

August 2007 •Romanian

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

Desterro

April 2021 •Portuguese

Salome goes out for another day at work, but not without bringing a definitive closure to a delicate occurrence.

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

October 1963 •Japanese

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

The Road to Ruin

March 1928 •English

A controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl that goes on the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up smoking and drinking, engages in affairs with a series of older men, gets arrested by the police during a strip poker game, is sent home only to discover later that she's pregnant, and after getting an illegal abortion, the words "The Wages of Sin is Death" inexpliably appear over her bed in fire.