In the immediate aftermath of her break up from Maxine, Persian, Bisexual Shirin refuses to accept their relationship is irrecoverable and sets about trying to win her back, with varying degrees of failure, whilst navigating the sociopolitical landscape that her life inhabits. Superbly written and directed by Desiree Akhavan - who also plays Shirin, well, superbly. So, all round superb, in my best Brooklyn accent. (Brett Atkinson)

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Talented young sketch artist Jerome Platz escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art college. Here his ambition is to become, like his hero Picasso, the world's greatest artist. Unfortunately the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an art class that he finds bewildering and bogus, neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers, though he does attract the attentions of his dream find out more...

Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d find out more...

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The acclaimed debut feature by celebrated filmmaker Emir Kusturica is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set amidst the uproar of 1960s Sarajevo. As Hollywood movies begin to find their way into his country, sixteen-year-old Dino becomes seduced by the glamour of the gangster films that flash before his eyes at the local cinema and he decides to follow a life of crime. Falling in with a band of petty crooks, Dino's future seems set until a liaison with local prostitute Dolly Bell turns his world u find out more...

Three teenagers have been raised in isolation by their parents and taught fear of an unknown outside world of which they nothing. The family develops with its own set of rules, but a burgeoning sexuality and curiosity lead to the downfall of this curious arrangement.
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Eric is seventeen and along with his best mate, Maggie, is working the summer hols at an amusement park. When Rod enters the scene, charming, handsome and quite obviously gay, Eric finds himself giving into desires that he has been hitherto so successfully repressing. A fast approaching classic of contemporary gay American cinema, both funny and thoughtful. find out more...

Enid and Rebecca have made it through high school and are out in the real world. But is the real world ready for them? Based on Daniel Clowes cult comic of the same title, this is a teen flick for everyone who hates teen flicks. The ever-cynical duo are put in situations they hate (running into girls they hate, taking art classes that they hate...) and take it out on the unsuspecting. Trying to to make your way in the post-high school world is hard enough but when you've got attitudes like En find out more...

17-years-old Igby comes from a cinematically typical wealthy white American family; there's loads of dosh but everyone's dysfunctional at best and verging on psychopathic at worst. Igby maybe odd himself, but he knows true madness when he sees it, and he sees it in just about every member of his family. To this end the lad makes a concerted and sexually orientated bid for freedom, seduced and seducing women old enough to well know he's barely legal. Igby Goes Down is a deliciously fresh and slyl find out more...

An extraordinary feature that explores a young Montreal boy's surreal visualisation of his family and surroundings, he is convinced that his mum was impregnated not by his dad, but by an Italian tomato, and his escape through reading the book 'L'avalée des avalés' by Canadian novelist Réjean Ducharme. His dysfunctional family are bizarre, but director Lauzon vests them with real warmth, and Leolo's strange sexual obsessions are focused on Bianca his beautiful and unobtainable neighbour. A deligh find out more...