Talented young sketch artist Jerome Platz escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art college. Here his ambition is to become, like his hero Picasso, the world's greatest artist. Unfortunately the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an art class that he finds bewildering and bogus, neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers, though he does attract the attentions of his dream find out more...

The lives of teenage junkies and bickering old people in a small Cotswold town are revealed in this series of interconnected vignettes about the complexity of love, life, youth and the vulnerabilities of old age. The pace of life is slow and the dialogue sparse in this critically acclaimed example of a new wave of British Indie cinema. find out more...

Lin Yuezhen is in love with swimming star and school heartthrob Zhang Shihao. She's far too shy to approach him and instead asks her best friend Meng Kerou to act as a go-between. Kerou reluctantly agrees but whenever Shihao appears Yuezhen flees. Shihao can only conclude that Kerou is using an imaginary character to court him but she has her sights set elsewhere. An insightful and original coming of age drama. find out more...

Following their mother's tragic death in a car accident two young girls, 10 and 16, and their academic father move from Chicago to Genova (Genoa to us Brits). Here family tensions emerge, but what they find in Genova is a different kind of darkness, from the streets of the city into their hearts... find out more...

Hallam is emotionally hung-up over his mother's recent suicide and treats his wealthy dad's beautiful new wife like dirt. Escaping to Edinburgh, he is soon out of money and gets himself a job in a hotel, but he also finds himself well suited to the rooftops of the city, where he lives feral, peeps and develops an obsession for a girl who looks disturbingly like said mum. find out more...

Howie is a 15-year-old kid teetering on the edge of delinquency, his mother has recently died and his father, a dodgy builder, is hard pushed to keep a grip on his own life, let alone his son's. Lost and alone Howie hangs out more and more with his mates, skipping school and committing small time theft, it is while in the middle of one of these robberies that the boys meet Big John, a mysterious and ominous character. When the few emotional bonds that Howie has left desert him only Big John is l find out more...

Introverted oddball Lorenzo enjoys nothing more than his own company and using the excuse of a week-long skiing trip to hide out in his basement seems like the perfect opportunity to spend some time alone. But when his heroin-addicted half-sister Olivia arrives at his sacred refuge, his dreams of isolation are quickly shattered. Another dark sexualised adolesc find out more...

Napoleon may look like a super-nerd, but this lad's got attitude! find out more...

A visually brilliant film about teenage gangs in America's urban wasteland. The leader of a small dying gang, Rusty James, lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother - The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. One of Coppola's two adaptations of S E Hinton novels, 'The Outsiders' being the other. A great performance from Dillon and an awesome soundtrack. find out more...

Lucidia is a teenage cyber-goth whose mother died mysteriously seven years ago in the family swimming pool. Her father Gabriel is an archaeologist who can't move on. When Lucidia disappears in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel is forced to confront her strange outsider friends and meets Tegan, a girl obsessed with unicorns and black holes. Emotional and audacious, the st find out more...