"What Richard Did is an engrossing and intelligent drama that throbs in the mind for hours after the final credits." The Guardian

Toronto International Film Festival
Sydney Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Room), What Richard Did follows Richard Karlsen (Jack Re...

"Daniel Patrick Carbone's haunting debut feature offers a dark vision of boyhood adventure in a great outdoors fraught with peril." New York Times

Berlin International Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival

Hide Your Smiling Faces vividly depicts the young lives of two bro...

"A stringent street psychodrama in which brutality is an infection and every male is a carrier." NPR

Toronto International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival

Neds follows the story of John McGill, a young boy growing up in 1970s, Scotland. While a b...

"...a deft blend of the intimate and the political that recalls the fire-in-the-belly feistiness of early Spike Lee joints." Screen International

Sundance Film Festival
IndieLisboa International Film Festival
BFI Flare

In writer-director Patricia Vidal Delgado's debut feature, a soon-to-be undo...

Wander Life is a tender portrait of middle school for introverts. Hinano, a soft spoken and unassuming student, hides from her school mates in fear of being bullied. One day, seeking shelter at the school's infirmary, Hinano befriends her school nurse Shindo. The two confide in each other and Shi...

Toronto International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival
Miami Film Festival

Katherine Jerkovic's poignant, intimate debut feature follows Sarah (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart) who, after the death of her father, travels from Montreal to a small village in Uruguay to visit with her paternal grandmother...

"... among the strongest of recent films to bluntly speak about class difference." Slant Magazine

Slamdance Film Festival
Raindance Film Festival

Set in rural Japan, this is a remarkable coming-of-age drama features a stunning performance by Aya Kitai as the tenacious titular character. She pla...

"Full of rich comic moments and euphoric revelations." Toronto Star

Vancouver International Film Festival Winner
Brooklyn Film Festival
Canadian Film Festival

An unemployed gambling addict drags his pot-smoking teenage daughter on a road trip to Churchill, Manitoba, in hopes of showing her the ...

"The filmmaking debut of actress-turned-writer/director Yûka Eda, it might be the latest recent Japanese effort to take on female yearning and marginalisation, but this involving feature is a mature addition to the growing thematic subgenre." - Screen Daily

Hong Kong International Film Festival
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Lulu Ali Ismail's directorial debut pens the beautiful and poetic coming of age story of Hibo, Asma, and Deka, three girls navigating their final high school semester. The blossoming young women question what it means to be educated in Djibouti and where class separates them as they select school...