Youth counselor Romy desperately wants to have a child. When she's assigned to support a pregnant sixteen-year-old, Romy sees this as an opportunity to make her wish come true. As their bond grows, Romy projects her own desires onto the girl. But is the way she's pursuing her desire to have a child still responsible?
Marieke Anthoni
Romy
Celine Camerlynck
Aliyah
Vincent Van Sande
Lode
Ismail L'Hamiti
Milan
Youth counselor Romy desperately wants to have a child. When she's assigned to support a pregnant sixteen-year-old, Romy sees this as an opportunity to make her wish come true. As their bond grows, Romy projects her own desires onto the girl. But is the way she's pursuing her desire to have a child still responsible?
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations. As she comes into her own, she grapples with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
In the wake of a collapsed marriage and his father's death, David Lamb hopes to regain his own sense of goodness by focusing his attention on Tommie, an awkward and unpopular 11-year-old girl. Convinced he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, David takes her on a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies to initiate her into the beauty of the mountain wilderness. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.