Coming Through the Rye

Can 3 young girls grow closely through the bittersweet journey of womanhood?

Marlon is visiting her mother in jail for the first time since her imprisonment.

A young boy wrestles with a deepening sense of remorse after the sudden disappearance of his friend. When those close to him begin to question his involvement, he is forced to make a life-altering choice. Themes of friendship, guilt, and redemption are examined against the backdrop of a scorching summer in the rural South.

Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her, runs away from home.

Xe and Y cross paths by chance at the door of a café, in a meeting that feels as if it were written by fate. Between them, something is born that is as fleeting as it is universal — that rare instant when we recognize someone even before knowing who they are. Revois follows this encounter that could belong to any of us and that, perhaps — just perhaps — asks to happen again.”

One boy's chance to turn a quick buck into 'serious cash' at the local market.

The coming-of-age journey of 5 teenage boys who leave their small, Canadian town behind and risk skating across Lake Ontario to New York on the coldest day of the year.

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

Celeste is a carefree 15-year-old coming of age after the fall of Pinochet when her life changes drastically and unexpectedly. Now, the desert and oceanside she once embraced feels alien. In an uncertain nation going through a transition of its own, Celeste is thrust into an adult world where she must grow up faster than she could have ever imagined.

Carlos lives in a boarding school in the centre of Bogotá and longs to spend Christmas with his family. The circumstances around him force him to assume the male stereotype, in open contradiction to his true being. In private, Carlos acknowledges his sensitivity, his fragility and moves towards other forms of masculinity. At his 16 years of age, Carlos explores his sexual identity, discovers his fears, his desires, and all the things that real men never show.

A young adult recounts childhood memories involving his 6th grade teacher and the lessons she taught, particularly her unconventional assignment: to daydream.

In parched Nagasaki, grieving Koura drifts after losing his son. When his sister leaves her daughter in his care, an unexpected life together begins.