Los problemas de una familia salen a la luz durante su estancia en un pueblo costero.
Ola es una adolescente de catorce años a la que las circunstancias le han obligado a madurar muy rápido: debe cuidar de su hermano autista Nikodem, de quien ni su padre alcohólico o su madre ausente se harán cargo.
Holiday Heart es drag queen y acaba de perder a su amante (un oficial de policía), cuando encuentra a Niki, de 12 años, y a su madre drogadicta, Wanda. Heart encuentra alivio a su corazón roto y un nuevo sentido cuando se convierte en figura paterna para Niki y recibe a las dos mujeres en su vida. Pero cuando Wanda inicia una relación amorosa con su traficante de drogas, Silas, esto puede poner en peligro a Niki y amenaza con destruir la improvisada familia.
Dos jóvenes de 12 años, producto de hogares rotos del Upper West Side , luchan para dar sentido a sus vidas y vivir sus propios sentimientos de adolescentes
Tells the story of Andrew, a 13-year-old whose mother dies and leaves him with an indifferent step-father. Andrew, receiving only hostility from his classmates and step-father, begins to steal. An understanding counselor at school helps Andrew reform and readjust.
A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
Since the mother left, the relationship between Aksa and his father, Anton becomes tenuous. Anton still have deep worries over his wife's left and becomes apathetic to Aksa. Their cold and full of tension relationship makes Aksa can't communicate with Anton well.
Dark, tragic comedy about a judgmental mother who learns her teenage daughter is into much older men, testing relationships and perceptions as one woman's denial leads to 'exceptance.'
To escape her overprotective drug-dealing stepfather, an introvert flees to NYC with her pet pocket squirrel. After successfully reinventing herself through the help of some "found family," she realizes she must return home and confront her dark past, to truly be free.
When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a career as a bouncer in the city's most notorious music club and an attempt to start a family. Today, the 77-year-old from Bielefeld lives with his dog Lucky in a lonely house in the country. Despite adverse living conditions, he has survived in his own unique and inimitable way.
Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite a supernatural horror movie, Taliesin Jones's identity crisis nonetheless reveals a sweet examination of one child and his thoughts on God.
Soekie is a family drama which focuses on the destructive effect of an impending divorce on family life. It is based on the book "Die Hele Dorp Weet" [translates to " The Whole Town Knows"] written by Santie Grosskopf.
Two girls in the bloom of youth meet at a vocational training program. Afterwards, their lives move in completely different directions.
In 1940, a French lady commits suicide after the death of her boyfriend, a clock engineer. Her soul was not at peace and it became a spirit, carried by a beautiful but deadly timepiece, that would torment the sufferers of depression for generations. Cheata is a young girl, living with her father after her mother, Chanda, left the family. Every day, Cheata suffers abuse from her stepmother, slipping deeper into the depression that grips her home. Her pain is soon too much to bear, and she falls under the control of the spirit of the French lady who possesses 'The Clock'.
When a little girl gets called a whore for the first time, she discovers her place in the world but also her power to define herself.