Friendship is put to the test in this story of love and loyalty in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Alison Folland plays Claude, the skateboarding teenager who slowly comes out as gay in a homophobic urban environment. Her feelings are confused by her best friend Ellen who sinks deeper into drug abuse and self destruction. When there's a murder in the neighbourhood, Claude has to choose between loyalty for Ellen or her own instincts. A coming-of-age film debut by Alex Sichel. find out more...

Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d find out more...

Phillip and Erik are best friends, they share a love of punk, girls and having a good time, and they also have literary aspirations, but their shared endeavour to become published and renown authors has unexpected consequences. find out more...

Xiaochun is a young lad from the country with a talent for the violin, an ability his peasant father is determined the world will come to appreciate as much as his small town's inhabitants. Father and son set off for the big city where it is hoped Xiaochun will win a scholarship to a prestigious musical academy. It is once settled in the city that the boy's journey truly begins as the adult world in all its pain and beauty makes him realise what it is he really wants from life, what to sacrifice find out more...

At the edge of the vast Mauritanian desert lies the small coastal town of Nouadhibou, there seventeen-year-old Abdallah is visiting his mother before emigrating to Europe. This melancholic young man finds himself a stranger in his own country, unable to speak the local language he shies away from village customs and festivities. Yet, despite himself, Abdallah does become involved in the lives of the inhabitants of this unfamiliar world; the sorrowful but sensual young woman Nana, the aged handym find out more...