Film Categories: Youth

  • Maya at 24

    Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya in 16mm black and white film, at ages 6, 16 and 24. At each iteration, Maya runs around her mother, in a circle – clockwise – as if propelling herself in the same direction as time, forward, on celluloid at 24 frames per second. Conscious of the strange simultaneous temporal landscape that only film can convey, we watch Maya in motion at each distinct age.

  • Mango Lemon Soda

    After spraining her ankle fleeing a terrible date, Zahrah is forced to spend an evening with her estranged ex, Tyler.

  • processing…cleaning…refreshing…

    a depiction of an individual going through a phase in their life, they are navigating what constantly shifts inwards and outwards.

  • The Taking of Jordan (All American Boy)

    Jordan, an amateur adult performer, recalls the horror of his many former lives.

  • Matin Dans Une Foret de Pins (Morning in the Pine Forest)

    The lives of six young people unfold in a journey through different worlds revealed and interwoven, where the boundaries between documentary and fiction, reality and dream cease to exist. The volatile and seductive landscape of urban and rural Latvia was treated as a rich context for the complex relationships one has with the world – inviting the viewer to come upon the questions that bind us in our common need to understand our humanness. This film is based on the lives of HELENA, EVA, JANKA, GUNTIS, ANNA and GALC.

  • Sea, carry my dream / Mer, emporte mon Rêve

    Toward the land, toward the sea. Where can a boy be safe? The universal story of fear and hope for boat people seen through young eyes. The little red fish shows him a mysterious world full of wonder and danger under the sea that his fragile boat is escaping on.

  • Freya

    Tethering falconry and motherhood, Freya weaves together themes of death and magic, where seasons re-arrange, just as myth and memory are re-cast through a childhood spell.

  • Gags N’ Gals: Male Order

    A short experimental film inspired by the paintings of biblical women from German Renaissance painter, Lucas Cranach. The film reimagines Cranach’s paintings through a modern, critical lens, exploring female sensuality and their ability to use it as their own personal weapons.

  • Hand

    Using spray paint and markers, the film animates moving hand shapes, outlined hands, crossing hands, hand prints, intertwining fingers. This simple visual concept, hand outline tracings, shows the artistry involved in the manipulation of colour, texture, and rhythm.

  • Meditation 4 Black Women

    Four women, with seemingly unrelated lives, meditate on identity setting off a mystical event that allows them to breathe again.