Together with a diverse group of teenage girls, the Ukrainian Emilia is joining an outdoors climbing camp for the first time in her new home country. This adventurous experience will be extra challenging for Emilia since she fled from Ukraine to Belgium one year ago together with her family. But soon she gets to know the other girls, learns to express herself better and pushes her borders. During this extraordinary week of new experiences, she tries to get a grip on herself, the group and surrounding nature.
● Laura De Baudringhien ● 15' ● Belgium
Mona is an imaginative teenager who — like her brother — struggles with ASD. She is on the eve of a giant step in her life: she will make the transition to mainstream education. She has to say goodbye to her classmates and make new friends. An exciting new world is opening up for her, but that creates extra tension.
● Sarah Van Dale ● 15' ● Belgium
The kids from Wolves HC are about to play their first major handball tournament. Surrounded by professional players, talent scouts and potential sponsors, the Wolves are on the rise. But, the games are suddenly interrupted when adults question who’s really allowed to play.
● Christian Zetterberg ● 12' ● Sweden
The new school year brings new challenges for 14 year old Sana. She is starting at a new school where she will learn all the ins and outs of the world of baking. In the evenings she is training hard for her very first international boxing match. In a couple of weeks she and some of her teammates have been invited to fight at the Olympic Center in Pisa. How will she cope, combining these two big passions that are both demanding a lot of her? Will she manage to juggle both and succeed in finding her footing?
● Liesbeth De Mey ● 16' ● Belgium
Teenagers Sofia and Jamilla are tricked into transporting a sports bag. When they discover a gun in the bag they are thrown into a struggle that both challenges their friendship and puts them in danger.
● Martin Jenefeldt ● 11' ● Sweden
When Fien discovers that her sister Hannah is threatened by a vicious crocodile that is making her very skinny and sick, her world is turned upside down.
● Lore Mechelaere ● 16' ● Belgium
The Ladies’ Union of Drama – House of Open Hospitality implements the educational project “Mobile School Travels.” Through a wheeled, mobile facility, it tries to reach Roma children who live and work on the streets in the prefectures of Drama, Kavala, and Xanthi in Northern Greece, aiming at fighting dropout and illiteracy. The Roma children who access it learn to write, read, and draw, among numerous activities.
● Lucas Paleocrassas ● 12’ ● Greece
In 1994, two brothers enjoy the summer that will change everything: the youngest, Lucas, starts school and will have to accept that his older brother, Bruno, with Down syndrome, will not accompany him on this new adventure.
● Estefanía Ortiz ● 16' ● Spain
Julie (10) is going camping with her little brother and her mother but she is dreading it. It is a vacation without her father and she misses him a lot. Her parents are separated now and she has to get used to this new reality. But it turns out Julie is not the only one; at the one-parent campground in France, all the children have the same experience. Her new vacation friends help Julie look at the divorce through new glasses.
● Milou Gevers ● 15' ● Netherlands
For the third year in a row, a group of cinephile students from the second and third grades of middle school is taking on the role of program curator. The student committee watched, discussed, and selected seven films for the lineup, covering a wide range of topics from autism to the first kiss
● 98'
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