ALIENATION
A documentarian talks to real-life teenagers about puberty and pairs their interviews to alien animations.
Youth
CONE PHONES
WORLD PREMIERE Cone Phones explores the relationship between actuality and sound through children at play in Union Square playground.
CURT
NYC PREMIERE Curt features 50-year-old competitive surfer, Curt Harper, diagnosed with autism as a child who maintained his child-like love for surfing and became a beloved fixture in the Southern California surf scene.
LITTLE HERO
NYC PREMIERE Little Hero profiles six-year-old twins, Avery and Xander, highlighting how Xander has become Avery’s hero.
MADE OF CLAY
Ahmed is a seventeen year-old Emirati clay animator whose artistic ambitions are to become the first claymation artist from the UAE.
SHORTS: A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Stories for the whole family. Cone Phones (USA, 6 min., Heidi Gelover) snap, crackle and pop in a city playground. Avery’s twin brother, Xander, is her Little Hero (USA, 10 min., Marcus McDougald, Jennifer Medvin). An Emirati boy dreams of being the first claymation artist from his homeland in Made of Clay (UAE, 10 min., […]
TEEN PRESS
NYC PREMIERE Teen Press takes audiences inside Santa Barbara Middle School for a semester to witness the selection, training and inner-workings of a teenage press corps.
THE 414s
NYC PREMIERE The 414’s tells the story of the first widely recognized computer hackers, a group of Milwaukee teenagers who gained notoriety in 1983.
SHORTS: POINTS OF VIEW
Tales of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Stonehenge meets a grand cuckoo clock in The Clock of the Long Now (USA, 3 min., Jimmy Goldblum, Adam Weber). The Typist (USA, 8 min., Kristine Stolakis), a gay Korean War Vet, comes to terms with his role in discharging gay soldiers. A mother’s obsession causes her son to grapple […]
RESIDENT ALIEN
WORLD PREMIERE 15-year-old Carlos saw his best friend shot dead in front of him in Honduras and escaped gang violence by fleeing to his grandmother in the U.S., but his undocumented status leaves him vulnerable to deportation.