American Spirit

Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when her real biological father unexpectedly steps into her life.

Samantha is an 18-year-old girl who, in the middle of a move, experiences a flashback of memories and is reunited with her imaginary childhood friend, Flux. Between waves and cardboard boxes, she passes the farewell with herself, with what surrounds her and with the tide.

Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course.

Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound sadness. The relationship with him, however, brings its own ambiguousness and complexities and as Carmín moves into womanhood this causes great confusion, mostly for her.

Graduation season is here again. Faced with the stress of losing "freedom", the four handsomely riched (gaofushuai) - Qin Zheng Jan, Leng Feng, Nan Gong Jian and Zheng Hao Yu decide to find their destined lady with a game. Their encounter with different girls redefined what love and life mean to them as they advanced from adolescence to maturity. Facing their lives already decided by their parents, they no longer accept it unsaid. Instead, they dare to go after their dreams. In addition, the appearance of a unique boy named Huang Yi Fan, who came from a totally different world, influenced and changed their decisions. This is an extraordinary graduation season. This is a frenzied graduation season. This is a journey of the change in love seeking that is filled with pain and true love.

When an arcade game enthusiast's anxiety makes it difficult for him to make friends, he realizes he may need to connect with people in a way he has never tried before...

When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.

Avoiding troubles at home, Charlotte goes to spend the week at her grandmother's house and quickly finds herself smothered by her love. Desperate to get out from under her, Charlotte offers to help out around the farm. In doing so she discovers an ancient Grogoch, a household spirit from old Irish folklore, living in her grandmother's work shed. Who is he, and where does he come from?

Lorenzo, Blue and Antonio have a lot in common: they are sixteen, attending the same class in the same school in a small town in the northeast, each have a family that loves them. And all three, though for different reasons, have come to be isolated from other peers. Their new friendship helps them to resist, until the mechanical attraction and fear the judgment of others do not grasp them unprepared.

From the confined universe of Brooklyn's BIZARRE cabaret, we set off on a road movie across the American West. We are 7 years later. Lucas and Maurice have never seen each other again and have no contact since the tragic events of the BIZARRE cabaret in New York. Lucas now lives in Denver, Colorado. He is married to a slightly older man who is the father of a 16-year-old child. In the middle of this peaceful life, Maurice will again cross paths with Lucas. As another tragic event takes place in Denver, Maurice and Lucas will have only one solution, to flee towards San Francisco through the American West.

Xu Niannian and Yang Yi met at the most beautiful time in their lives, sharing an unforgettable chapter of youthful love and growth.

Keiko surprises everyone when she overcomes adversity to win her first two boxing fights. But when an unexpected incident threatens the closure of her gym, she is pushed further than she thought possible.

A young woman discovers second-wave feminism, while meeting with her estranged half-sister, as they encounter the grief, rage, jealousy and injustice that govern their lives. The academic and political discussion of women's liberation and feminism (as part of the sexual revolution of the 1970s) draws inspiration from 'The Scum Manifesto' by Valerie Solanas and juxtaposes these passage with country music from the same era; notably 'The Pill' by Loretta Lynn, 'Just Because I'm A Woman' by Dolly Parton and, most centrally, 'Stand By Your Man' by Tammy Wynette.

In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lily Dale, following a long estrangement. He has not seen either since he was 12 because his wicked stepfather, Pete Davenport (whom his mother married after his father drank himself to death) believes a boy ought to be self-reliant.

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.