Teen Tales

Program Running Time 99 min.

Teenagers often face a hostile world where sometimes it seems like you can’t get any respect and everything and everybody is against you. Longing, confrontation and fighting to prove yourself are powerful themes throughout this shorts program of six excellent teen dramas.

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Films in Program

(Aashpordha)
Directed By: Anirban Roy
(India, 2011, 14 mins, HDCAM)

Teenaged Lily has a confrontation with her strict father over the American dance music she loves, and when she decides to get back at him the situation quickly escalates.

Directed By: Olivia Newman
(USA, 2011, 15 mins, HDCAM)

No amount of practice on the mat can prepare Mo for the challenge and male prejudice she faces as she approaches her first high-school wrestling match.

Directed By: Pedro Collantes
(Norway, Spain, 2012, 16 mins, HDCAM)

Anna and Anton are bored teens in a small town, but does a mysterious box her dog finds on the beach have magical powers that can grant her love and transform their lives?

Run
Directed By: Shelagh McLeod
(UK, 2011, 19 mins, Digital Betacam)

Hot shot teen soccer star Tom has attracted the scouts’ attention and seems destined for big things, but suddenly tragedy changes his life forever.

Directed By: Michael Spiccia
(Australia, 2012, 14 mins, HDCAM)

An isolated teenaged girl has an incident with some rowdy boys in town, but things get ugly when they show up seeking payback at her father’s remote wrecking yard.

Zug
Directed By: Perry Janes
(USA, 2012, 21 mins, HDCAM)

Donovan and Lee take up a classmate’s challenge to sneak onto Detroit’s mysterious Zug Island in search of the truth behind several infamous urban legends.