Featuring a remarkable lead performance from nine-year-old Sofia Otero, 20,000 Species of Bees is an empathetic exploration of gender and generations.

The winner of the 2023 Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or is a colourful orgy of ennui and desire.

‘A’ is for ‘Aaaaah!’ in this wild and zany schoolyard romp.

A South London playground prompts an abstract meditation on work and play.

From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a heartbreaking and unforgettably tender portrait of a six-year-old French girl’s bond with her Cape Verdean nanny.

Auteurs Jia Zhang-ke and Bi Gan join the voice cast for this acerbic animated wonder about Chinese art students facing a rapidly changing world.

In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.

This multi-award-winning debut is an intimate, deeply felt portrait of a lesbian teacher living a double life in Thatcher’s England.

Heed the call of the waves and dive headfirst into this innovative and visually resplendent Chinese animation.

Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.

This heartfelt Sofia Coppola–produced drama explores the intricacies of a father–daughter bond blossoming amid queer liberation and the AIDS crisis.

This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.

‘Would you choose them as your mates?’ asks this dark and dreamlike snapshot of a teenage friendship group.

A sun-drenched, hormone-laden trip of teenage kicks turns dark in this compellingly contemporary navigation of sexual politics.

Hit the town and seek out the next illegal rave in this euphoric, multisensory joyride about the 1980s Acid House movement.

This deeply moving Clermont-Ferrand International Special Jury Prize winner follows a troubled teen’s last-ditch attempt at freedom.

Political unrest fractures the innocence of childhood in this haunting snapshot of Sri Lanka’s brutal conflict.

This lushly animated tale of sexual awakening, which screened in competition at Cannes, follows a humanoid bird as she matures from child to woman.

A wildly imaginative, hilarious and heartbreaking trip into a teenage girl’s mind, depicted as a phantasmagoria of self-loathing and angst.

In this Annecy Best Feature–winning adaptation of the Le petit Nicolas comic books, a mischievous character meets the men who brought him to life.

In this tense coming-of-age drama direct from Cannes Critics’ Week, a teenage boy confronts the political injustice upheld by his mother.

An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.

In this exceptional debut feature, a supernatural discovery transfigures two teenagers’ world of graffiti, grief and suburban exploration.

This Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) and Teddy Award for Best Short Film winner depicts a Yankunytjatjara man’s search for belonging.

In a rare work of pure fiction for Safi Faye, drawing from a Wolof legend, a teen brings disaster to her village after defying an arranged marriage.

Put on your ballet shoes for this triumphant, feel-good tale of a 12-year-old Parisian dancer who overcomes the odds of institutional prejudice.

In this sensitively told drama, a teenager’s battle with body image is a microcosm for the crushing weight of beauty standards on all young women.

CODA scene-stealer Eugenio Derbez leads this luminous Sundance Festival Favorite Award winner about an inspiring teacher.

In this beautifully bittersweet hand-drawn ode to friendship, a dog must find new meaning when misfortune separates him from his robot buddy.

Anna Torv, Sam Neill, Tim Minchin and Deborah Mailman lend their voices to this Australian animated adventure based on the popular novel and game.

A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.

A disconnected young woman becomes dangerously obsessed with an ASMR streamer in this disorientating, distinctive debut from New Zealand.

The rivalry between teenage brothers reaches dangerous heights in Toronto’s 2022 Best Canadian Short winner.

From its Clermont-Ferrand premiere comes a mythic fable exploring memory and nostalgia.

The winner of Best Short Film at both Toronto and Venice is a subtly menacing, Mongolia-set tale of sexual awakening.

Witchcraft, revenge and Indigenous rancour swell in this atmospheric, anti-colonial bildungsroman set in 19th-century Chile.

A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.

In this affecting Melbourne-set queer drama, a teenager’s coming of age is complicated by an unexpected sexual awakening.

The beast is unleashed in this Cannes award-winning debut – and she’s a 12-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl whose body is changing in more ways than one.

When the laws of time and space are turned topsy-turvy, what would you give up for one last moment with a lost love?

In this meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teen follows his mum through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

Revered auteur Wang Bing (Ta’ang; Alone) documents the breakneck pace of China’s garment factories.