For Youth

13 films

  • Bgirl Badli

    dir. Charlotte De Cort
    dok2022

    Dancing is everything for her. At the young age of 14, Mali leaves her family home and moves to a bigger city to live with her older sister and be closer to her dream school. The teenage girl is ready to make sacrifices but her body does not always want to follow her dreams.

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  • Dreaming Arizona

    dir. Jon Bang Carlsen
    dok2022

    ‘A documentary fantasy played out by real people,’ – is how the director described his film bordering on observation and creation, cinema and theatre. The protagonists are five secondary school students from a town in Arizona and the main theme involves feelings, traumas and dreams of these young people.

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  • Imperial (Impériale)

    dir. Coline Confort
    dok2022

    Eva is passionate about history and dreams about taking part in an enormous and prestigious historical reconstruction. Unfortunately, to join the Napoleonic army she needs to be a man. The girl decides to outsmart 200-year-old rules and regulations and join the army doubly dressed up – as a male soldier.

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  • My Name Is Happy

    dir. Nick Read, Ayse Toprak
    dok2022

    In 2015, Turkish-Kurdish singer Mutlu Kaya was shot in her own house. The film authors follow the life of the girl who decided to bring the culprit to justice and put up a fight for the recovery of her voice becoming the symbol of opposition against the impunity of perpetrators of honour killings.

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    Awards:Golden Horn
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  • Oasis

    dir. Justine Martin
    dok2022

    Raphaël and Rémi have been inseparable so far. As twins, they have spent together every moment at home, school or in their free time. This is the last carefree holiday of the brothers. One of them is likely to leave and the other one will stay at home because of his disability.

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  • One In a Million

    dir. Joya Thome
    dok2022

    Whitney from the US and Yara from Germany are divided by an ocean but connected by the Internet and their passion for gymnastics. The former develops her sporting career combining it with her presence in the social media and singing, while the latter is her fan and, above all, a regular teenager looking for her own path in life.

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  • Set!

    dir. Scott Gawlik
    dok2022

    Have you ever wondered how far from the edge of the table, to a single millimetre, you should place a plate? The protagonists of ‘Set!’ are not interested in anything else – their greatest passion is setting tables, winning laurels and beating their competitors. After this documentary you will never look at your dishes the same way again

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  • Techno, Mama

    dir. Saulius Baradinskas
    fab2021

    Nikita loves to listen techno music and dreams to go to Berlin and visit the famous club “Berghain”. His mother Irena doesn’t know about his son’s dreams and soon enough their mutual expectations will clash.

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  • The Red Turtle (La tortue rouge)

    dir. Michael Dudok de Wit
    anim2016

    A castaway stranded on a desert island does not admire paradisial landscapes. He does whatever he can to escape from it at the first opportunity. His perspective, however, changes when he meets a red turtle. This poetic story which won an Oscar nomination is an invitation to meditation on beauty, nature and the consecutive stages of human life.

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  • The Thief Collector

    dir. Allison Otto
    dok2022

    One stolen painting, one seemingly happy couple, dozens of questions and at least several moments when one finds it hard to believe it is not a script of a Hollywood blockbuster but of an American documentary. A nice married couple, adored by everyone, is hiding nasty secrets.

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  • Try Harder!

    dir. Debbie Lum
    dok2021

    Being admitted to the most prestigious university in the United States is a privilege available to few. Students from a high school in San Francisco will do anything to fulfil their own or their parents’ dreams. A surprisingly cheerful story about pressure and stress experienced by a group of American teenagers.

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  • We Will Not Fade Away

    dir. Alisa Kovalenko
    dok2023

    Donbas, 2019. The prospect of a new Russian invasion hangs in the air, while the sound of gunfire resulting from the old one can still be heard in the distance.

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  • Who I Am Not

    dir. Tunde Skovran
    dok2023

    Sharon was a finalist of the Miss South Africa beauty pageant, while Dimakatso is a well-known activist. What they share is intersexuality, i.e. they possess traits of both sexes. Meanwhile, the world requires them to unambiguously declare their identity, which is not always in line with their subjective feelings.

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    Awards:Silver Horn