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Its almost Halloween and Jacqueline must solve a haunted mystery after discovering a bracelet sunken into a pumpkin at the beach.

This coming-of-age drama follows sharp-tongued sixteen-year-old Jenny, who works as a home care assistant. She links arms with her friends' as she stumbles tipsily towards maturity, attempting to balance the gravity of her job with the melodrama of her social life.

This awarded short film that has traveled through several renowned festivals follows Madden, a young girl confronting the complexities of adolescence, torn between her rural upbringing and the allure of urban life. Director Malin Ingrid Johansson crafts a visually stunning coming-of-age tale where Madden's desire for freedom clashes with her with her duties to her siblings and family at the farm, creating a moving narrative of self-discovery and transformation.

Anna Beiler is too wicked to be Amish. Or so she is told. Well into her Rumspringa (the time when Amish teenagers are free to experience the modern world before deciding which life to choose), Anna yearns for a life outside her order in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Anna convinces an amateur documentary crew to drive her to a party in the Pennsylvania mountains, where she plans to make her escape. An accident leaves Anna stranded in Centralia, a town condemned for a coal mine fire that burns below the ground, a literal hell on earth. She is held captive by the town's lone resident, a crazed ex-Amish man named Jacob, who possesses a horrible secret, a secret he keeps buried deep inside the burning mine. To survive, Anna must play the part of the submissive Amish girl, until company arrives that goes beyond her worst nightmares. Set deep in Pennsylvania lore, THE AMISH GIRL is an immersive novel of faith and survival, the legacy of torture and martyrdom, and the horrors done in the name of God.

In her film entitled Rough Red, Amanda Devulsky endeavours to tell History differently, to show the reverse angle of political action, as well as to postulate that another form of resistance is possible. By shedding light on the lived experience of those who are unseen in public space, she has authored a historiography of the hidden. We're following the lives of Jô, Eunice, Alessa and Fabiana, four women who were still teenagers when they became mothers, at a time when Brazil itself was becoming a democracy, during the 1985-1995 decade, in Brasilia. Four women experiencing the strains of motherhood, and whose struggles were not played out in public but rather in the private space of the home. Blending personal archives with images shot in 2018, during the campaign leading up to Jair Bolsonaro's election, Amanda Devulsky constructs a monumental narrative.

The movie revolves around a go-lucky boy Uday, who lives with his mother and loves her very much. Life turns apart when his mother asks him to love a girl and bring her as her daughter-in- law. How does Uday love get her? Did the girl confess their love at home, Did they meet? What's their fate?

Three People, one Girl two Men, went to the Forest to look after strange things they heard about.

A group of teenagers mistakenly believe they only have 24 hours to live and decide to live life to the fullest.

A teenaged girl tries to deal with her idiosyncratic, Luis Buñel-esque family while putting up with the pressures of everyday life, which turns out to be more difficult than it seems.

Moving from England to California, the youngest cousins of Elle Woods must defend themselves when their schools reigning forces turn on the girls and try to frame them for a crime.

Something's wrong at the Rileys. Married nearly 30 years, Doug and Lois rarely talk. She doesn't leave their Indianapolis home, and she's ordered a gravestone with their names and birth years on it. He has a long-time Thursday night mistress whom he invites to go with him to a plumbing supply conference in New Orleans. Once there, Doug calls Lois to say he's staying for a while. What's he leaving behind and what's he looking for in New Orleans? And Lois, can she break out?

Displaying the intensity of focus only a 16-year-old can muster, the teen at the center of Valentina Maurel's caustic take on coming-of-age tropes does all she possibly can to rid herself of both her head lice and her virginity.

In the midst of a fresh start, a mother and her daughter find themselves in a new town, unknowingly moving next door to a house haunted by a tragic past—a young girl's gruesome act of murdering her own parents. As the daughter forges a bond with the surviving son, she soon discovers that the heart-wrenching story is anything but resolved, unraveling a web of lingering emotions and untold secrets.

Maria wanders around her neighborhood in the North of Corsica. The summer is warm. Tomorrow her missing brother Stéphane will turn 20. By a lake, Maria forgets her loneliness and communicates with lights that visit her at nightfall.