"Adulthood through a quick dip."
18-year-old Ellie is preparing for a big step in her life, to leave her parents' house to study, but fear holds her back and drowns her. The step for Ellie is taken by her childhood imaginary friend, a fish, reminding her of the reason she must move forward. Ellie hesitates but the next step, the realization of the truth and the acceptance of her adult self, is a one-way street.
Lydia Tsoumpeli
Elli
Nikolaos Kouzinos
Fish
Fotini Kapoukranidou
Little Elli
18-year-old Ellie is preparing for a big step in her life, to leave her parents' house to study, but fear holds her back and drowns her. The step for Ellie is taken by her childhood imaginary friend, a fish, reminding her of the reason she must move forward. Ellie hesitates but the next step, the realization of the truth and the acceptance of her adult self, is a one-way street.
Young, beautiful, talented Alexis Winston comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. But her rise to stardom isn’t easy. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, and most painfully of all, leave her hometown boyfriend behind. When a tragic fall leaves her blind, she needs someone to believe in her, to love her; someone to convince her she has the strength to skate and dream again.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
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.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
When a 17-year old aspiring dancer is uprooted in her high school senior year, she finds herself divided between two boys, and she will have one last shot at making her dream a reality.
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.