Films
Subject Youth Club: Coming of age-film about the incredible and tumultuous period of transition from child to adult.
Blueberry Dreams
A warm and understatedly humourous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. A young film from the old world, where the family's two sons dream of a different future.
Elene Mikaberidze / Georgia, France, Belgium & Qatar / 2024 / World Premiere
Gasoline Rainbow
Five teenagers embark on an all-American road trip to the Pacific Ocean in a dreamy and sprawling hybrid film from the Ross brothers. A feature film shot as a documentary headed for the end of the gasoline rainbow.
Bill Ross & Turner Ross / United States / 2023
Hard to Break
Two young Finns are fuelled by their (self-)destructive love for each other as their parallel lives on social media become further and further removed from reality.
Krista Moisio & Anna-Maija Heinonen / Finland / 2024 / World Premiere
KIX
Handheld skate video meets hardcore social realism in a sensational film with the energy of a three-chord punk song and an unruly group of street kids in front of the camera, shot over 12 wild years of their young lives.
Bálint Révész & Dávid Mikulán / Hungary, France & Croatia / 2024 / World Premiere
Sting Like a Bee
A warmhearted and beautiful hybrid film about a group of Italian teenagers flirting their way through the summer on their three-wheeled, self-styled Piaggio Ape mopeds. Love, sex and young dreams come together in a film-within-the-film about the young heroes.
Leone Balduzzi / Italy / 2023 / International Premiere
Tell Them About Us
A group of delightful teenage girls who have all fled to Germany find their own creative ways to overcome hidden discrimination in a film about friendship, sisterhood and living your dreams.
Rand Beiruty / Germany & Jordan / 2024 / World Premiere
Trans Hero
Charli, Nya, Chris, Alia and Milo are children. They tell their own stories in their own voices about being between genders - surrounded by family and love.
Sol Amanda Wendel & Evo Smilla S. Sidney / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Youth (Spring)
China's greatest documentary filmmaker was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year for his epic portrayal of life behind the sewing machines in the country's vast textile industry, where young employees flirt, argue and dream of the future.