Age: 10+

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The Princess, The Prince, and the Green-Eyed Dragon

The Prince just wants to read his newspaper. The Princess is looking for some excitement. And a thoughtful dragon is searching for a useful birthday present for his grandmother. In the end, they each get what they deserve.
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Fifteen

It’s Vianney’s quinceañera, her fifteenth birthday, and she is getting ready for her party. But when things do not go as planned, the best efforts of parents and friends cannot change the fact that she is “not alright”.
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Emmeline

A sweetly comic and playful celebration of what it means to be different — the fable of an awkward girl named Emmeline.
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The House

In this dreamy, hypnotic film, images morph and flow through shifting frames of reference, making everything topsy-turvy, as a girl attempts to care for her grandmother within an ever changing house.
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Through You

A young woman struggles through the crowd on her way to the store. As she passes these strangers, some leave a mark — but only one leaves a mark that sticks.
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Ballet Story

With shades of Black Swan, jealousy and rivalry (and shards of glass) at a ballet school for girls.
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Agnieszka

A young girl creates her own world in which she feels safe.
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Crocodiles without Saddles

This intimate portrait of 12-year-old Kaddi Wandaogo uses a mix of archive, interview and video diary footage to express her deep feelings and experience growing up between German and African families.
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A Monster in the Reservoir

A lonely monster lives in a secluded reservoir surrounded by mountains. He is almost discovered by a young girl, but is too scared to reveal himself. As time goes on, many different people visit the reservoir — but neither the girl nor the monster forget their chance encounter.
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The Red Carpet

Rubina was born into poverty in the slums of Mumbai — the only world she knew until she landed the role of Latika in the Academy Award®-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Despite that experience, Rubina’s life seems remarkably unchanged as she talks about her home and her dream of seeing herself on the screen once again.
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Astrid

Astrid is fed up with not being allowed to do what she likes, so instead of going home with her mom, she steps onto a passing bus and runs away to hang out with her friends. However this one transgression leads to another, and soon Astrid is facing a life or death question that she is not quite capable of handling.
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Neverland

Twelve-year-old Jeanne is spending a weekend with her parents at Disneyland in Paris. In a moment of indiscretion, Jeanne discovers a startling realization about her father.
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Princess

Lois, 7 years old, has the same dream as her friends: to be a princess.
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Mister Mirror Man

A stubborn fish collector goes overboard in the hunt for a rare catch.
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In The Sea Where I Was Born

In a style between fairy tale and video diary, Sina describes her mother’s journey from war-torn Eritrea to Italy to her unborn sister.
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Layla’s Melody

Eleven-year-old Layla lives in an orphanage in Kabul, and despite the many sacrifices she has endured — including not seeing her family for four years — her passion for music and education keeps her optimistic.
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Marina’s Ocean

Marina yearns to see the ocean, but her disability interferes. Unable to travel to the beach with her sister and her friends, she sets out on an adventure of her own.
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Chalk

Two thirteen-year-old professional gymnasts are competing at a national training camp when their friendship is put to the ultimate test. With subdued tones, filmmaker Martina Amati eloquently captures the unspoken tension between friends who are also rivals.
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Maja

During her grandfather’s wake, Maja is certain she still sees him: by the tree, in the dining room, and during a certain magical song.
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Daughters

When her mother becomes pregnant with a boy, 14-year-old Maple is forced into an arranged marriage. Unwilling to resign herself to this fate, she takes a dangerous path to freedom – but is she willing to pay the price?
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Beach Flags

Vida is an Iranian competitive lifeguard. She is determined to fight to win first place at an international competition in Australia. But with the arrival of Sareh, as fast and talented as she is, Vida is faced with an unexpected situation.
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Adama

When his headstrong older brother definitely leaves their West African village and vanishes into the unknown, 12-year-old Adama impulsively decides to chase after him. Adama’s bold spirit guides him on a journey that takes him across oceans and borders, eventually finding himself in the midst of World War I’s infamous Battle of Verdun. Innovative animation makes use of sand, clay and sculpture to match the mystical elements of the story’s magical realism. Seamlessly combining the action with the rarely-seen, fascinating moment in history, Adama injects the classic journey story with high stakes, giving our hero more to overcome and even more to discover.
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Faded Finery (Oripeaux)

In a remote village, a little girl befriends a pack of coyotes. But the villagers brutally put an end to this relationship, unaware of the revolution that awaits.
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Symphony No. 42

Small events express irrational, surreal interactions between humans and nature, including an operatic penguin and a cat that can be used as a coat.
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My Milk Cup Cow

Nunu’s imaginative father tells her that there’s a cow at the bottom of her cup of milk. When she realizes this isn’t true, she starts to wonder what else he may have made up.
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Ugly Pretty Heart

A little girl allows a witch to grant her a wish to be beautiful, but her new face robs her life of its meaning. Only later does she come to understand that real beauty shines from within.
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Peripheria

A dystopian abandoned housing complex is taken over by wild dogs and a looming threat.
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Wellington Jr.

A tentative young hunter sets out into the wilderness under the tutelage of his seasoned father, but the rite of passage leads to increasingly surreal and grisly developments.
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Animal Farm

Mi-Ae’s head is full of animals. They tend to escape when her emotions get the best of her, and she tries to cage them up when she meets her new boyfriend.
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Sailor’s Yarn

A solitary sailor and a mosquito form an unusual friendship aboard a small ship, but as they continue to spend time together the sailor begins to wonder if he’s being used more as food than friend.
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