Every June at Maplewood Middle School in NJ, 6th grade students participate in a rite of passage: try write a letter to their future 18-year-old selves.
● Sarah Klein & Tom Mason
● 13'
● USA
Dédalia is a spider. Close to the death, she asks herself : would she have moved to New York with her best friend, if she wasn’t so afraid of humans?
● Hélène Ducrocq
● 9'
● France
A children's theatre troupe is missing their protagonist. They discover that he is learning to kick-box in order to defend himself from the neighbourhood bully. With the help of a part-time electrician & kung fu master they must learn how to be a team again in order to make it to curtain call.
● Nikos Dayandas
● 20’
● Greece
While anxiously awaiting the results of his mother’s visa renewal request, a teenage boy living in Texas is confronted by buried memories he left behind in Uganda.
● Laki Karavias
● 13'
● USA, Uganda
Eleven-year-old Jade has only one idea in mind: to take part again in the Grand Prix des Kaolins, the motocross championship organized each summer by her father within the quarry he leads. But for this little girl apart, riding on a motorcycle again can be tricky. Except that Jade is stubborn.
● Corentin Lemetayer Le Brize
● 22'
● France
