Contemporary World Cinema for Young Adults
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Film of the month
Jeune Juliette
Anne Émond’s fourth feature, Jeune Juliette, is an absolutely delightful and body positive teen comedy about 14-year-old Juliette, a smart and savvy outsider who is coming to terms with her own identity and how people treat her because she is plump.
Contemporary World Cinema for Children
| April and the Extraordinary World by Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci (France) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 VOD | |
| Emu Runner by Imogen Thomas (Australia) | 🇦🇺 Prime | |
| My Life as a Courgette by Claude Barras (France / Switzerland) | 🇨🇦 Crave Starz | |
| Sergio and Sergei by Ernesto Daranas (Cuba) | 🇺🇸 Amazon, YouTube, GooglePlay, iTunes | |
| Supa Modo by Likarion Wainaina (Kenya) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel | |
| Queen of Katwe by Mira Nair (Uganda) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺🇬🇧 Disney+ | |
| Tomboy by Céline Sciamma (France) | 🇨🇦 Prime Video, Tubi, Mubi Library 🇺🇸 Kanopy 🇬🇧 BFI Player, Mubi | |
| Wadjda by Haifaa Al-Mansour (Saudi Arabia) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺🇬🇧 Netflix 🇬🇧 Mubi | |
| Window Horses by Ann Marie Fleming (Canada / Iran) | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, NFB 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime Video |
Contemporary World Cinema for Younger Teens
| Apostasy by Daniel Kokotajlo (England) | 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Prime Video 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy 🇬🇧 NowTV |
| Beautiful Thing by Hettie Macdonald (England) | 🇺🇸 Rent on VOD 🇬🇧 Rent on BFI Player |
| Before The Streets by Chloé Leriche (Canada) | 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand |
| Belle by Amma Asante (England) | 🇨🇦 Crave+ 🇦🇺 Stan, SBS on Demand |
| A Date for Mad Mary by Darren Thornton (Ireland) | 🇨🇦 A Date for Mad Mary 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Roku, Tubi |
| Fighting With My Family by Stephen Merchant (England) | 🇨🇦 Crave+ 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Hulu 🇬🇧 Netflix |
| Girls Lost by Alexandra-Therese Keining (Sweden) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Tubi 🇺🇸 Kanopy 🇬🇧 BFI Player |
| Handsome Devil by John Butler (Ireland) | 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 Netflix |
| Jeune Juliette by Anne Émond (Canada) | 🇨🇦 Rent on iTunes, Maison 4:3, Microsoft 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Buy the region 1 DVD |
| Little Wing by Selma Vilhunen (Finland) | |
| The Kid With a Bike by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel |
| Meditation Park by Mina Shum (Canada / China) | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| No Crying at the Dinner Table (short) by Carol Nguyen (Canada) | Free on Vimeo |
| Pride by Matthew Warchus (England) | 🇺🇸 Prime Video 🇨🇦🇬🇧 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube 🇦🇺 Netflix |
| La promesse by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel |
| Summer 1993 by Carla Simón (Spain) | 🇺🇸 Kanopy 🇦🇺 Stan |
| Their Finest by Lone Scherfig (England) | 🇨🇦 Netflix, iciTouTV 🇺🇸 HBO Max 🇦🇺 SBS On Demand |
| A United Kingdom by Amma Asante (England) | 🇬🇧 Netflix 🇦🇺 Stan, SBS On Demand, Netflix |
| Where Hands Touch by Amma Asante (England / Botswana) | 🇨🇦 Prime Video, Hoopla 🇺🇸 Hulu, Hoopla 🇦🇺 Netflix |
| Vai by various (New Zealand) | 🇺🇸 Prime, Tubi |
| We Are the Best! by Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) | 🇺🇸 Prime, Vudu, Tubi, Kanopy, Crackle |
| White God by Kornél Mundruczó (Hungary) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel, Hoopla 🇺🇸 Vudu, Tubi, Kanopy, Crackle, Pluto TV |
| The Perfect Candidate by Haifaa Al-Mansour (Saudi Arabia) | 🇬🇧 Prime |
Contemporary World Cinema for Older Teens
‘I wanted the film to be like a pop song’: Keith Behrman on Giant Little Ones
Canadian writer-director Keith Behrman on Giant Little Ones, a teen film about the ambiguity of sexual identity and the way internalized homophobia is poison to everyone.
Writer-director Amanda Kernell talks Sami Blood
Amanda Kernell discusses her exquisite feature debut, “a coming-of-age story, with joik and blood, about a girl with a knife,” and how it illuminates South Sami history.
Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister is heartbreaking
Our Little Sister is a quiet, sweet, and heartbreaking film about three grown, co-habitating sisters, who meet their younger fourteen-year-old sister after their absent father dies, and decide to take her in as one of their own.
| And Then We Danced by Levan Akin (Georgia) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Prime |
| Ava directed by Léa Mysius (France) | 🇺🇸 OVID |
| Ava by Sadaf Foroughi (Iran) | 🇨🇦 Crave+ 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Kanopy |
| Babyteeth by Shannon Murphy (Australia) | 🇨🇦🇬🇧 Netflix 🇺🇸 Hulu |
| Being 17 by André Téchiné (France) | 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Breathe by Mélanie Laurent (France) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Hoopla 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy |
| Brooklyn by John Crowley (Ireland) | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇬🇧 Prime |
| The Burden (short) by Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Sweden) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime Video | Rent or Buy Everywhere on Vimeo |
| Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino (Italy) | 🇨🇦 iciTouTV, Mubi 🇺🇸 Starz |
| Capernaum by Nadine Labaki (Lebanon) | 🇺🇸 Starz |
| Close-Knit by Naoko Ogigami (Japan) | |
| Closet Monster by Stephen Dunn (Canada) | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Crave Starz, Tubi 🇺🇸 Kanopy, realeyz 🇬🇧 Prime |
| Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa (Poland) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel |
| Crystal Swan by Darya Zhuk (Russia) | 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand |
| The Demons by Philippe Lesage (Canada) | 🇺🇸 Kanopy 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand |
| Easy Land by Sanja Zivkovic | 🇨🇦 Crave + 🇺🇸 Vudu |
| Firecrackers by Jasmin Mozaffari (Canada) | 🇨🇦 Crave+, Hoopla 🇺🇸 Kanopy, Hoopla |
| The Fireflies are Gone by Sébastien Pilote (Canada) | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇦🇺 SBS Movies |
| Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold (England) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel 🇨🇦 Prime 🇬🇧 Netflix |
| Giant Little Ones by Keith Berhman (Canada) | 🇨🇦 Crave+, Hoopla, CBC Gem 🇺🇸 Hoopla, Starz, Kanopy |
| Genèse by Philippe Lesage (Canada) | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Hoopla 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy |
| Girlhood by Céline Sciamma (France) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Hoopla 🇺🇸 Showtime, Kanopy 🇬🇧 BFI Player |
| God’s Own Country by Francis Lee (England) | 🇨🇦 Netflix, Hoopla 🇺🇸 Hulu, Roku, Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy, Pluto TV |
| Graduation by Cristian Mungiu (Romania) | 🇦🇺 SBS On Demand |
| The Grizzlies by Miranda de Pencier (Canada) | 🇨🇦 Crave + 🇺🇸 Netflix |
| Hello Destroyer by Kevan Funk (Canada) | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 Prime Video |
| The Here After by Magnus von Horn (Sweden) | 🇬🇧 Mubi |
| I Am Not a Witch by Rungano Nyoni (Zambia / Wales) | 🇨🇦 Tubi, Mubi 🇺🇸 Roku, Tubi, Kanopy |
| Kuessipan | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem |
| The Last Tree by Shola Amoo (England / Nigeria) | 🇺🇸 Prime 🇬🇧 Netflix, BFI Player |
| The Levelling by Hope Dickson Leach (England) | 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Kanopy |
| Mouthpiece by Patricia Rozema (Canada) | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇺🇸 Kanopy |
| Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Turkey / France) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel 🇨🇦 Mubi 🇺🇸 Kanopy |
| My Brother the Devil by Sally El Hosaini (England / Egypt) | 🇬🇧 Prime, BFI Player |
| Nahid by Ida Panahandeh (Iran) | Not available |
| Our Loved Ones by Anne Émond (Canada) | 🇨🇦 iTunes 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 realeyz |
| Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (Iran) | 🇨🇦 Prime, Tubi |
| Phoenix by Christian Petzold (Germany) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel 🇬🇧 Mubi |
| Please Like Me (TV) by Josh Thomas and Matthew Saville (Australia) | 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Netflix 🇬🇧 Prime |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma (France) | 🇨🇦 Crave+ 🇺🇸 Hulu 🇬🇧 Mubi |
| Rafiki by Wanuri Kahiu (Kenya) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel 🇺🇸 Showtime, Kanopy |
| Rhymes for Young Ghouls by Jeff Barnaby (Canada) | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Crave+, Hoopla, Fandor 🇺🇸 Hoopla, Kanopy, Fandor |
| The Riot Club by Lone Scherfig (England) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Rent on VOD |
| Sami Blood by Amanda Kernell (Sweden) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime 🇨🇦 Hoopla, Fandor 🇺🇸 Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy, Fandor |
| Sand Storm by Elite Zexer (Israel) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺🇬🇧 Netflix |
| The Seen and Unseen by Kamila Andini (Iceland) | 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Rent on Amazon |
| Skam (TV) by Julie Andem (Norway) | |
| Slut in a Good Way by Sophie Lorain (Canada) | 🇨🇦 iciTouTV 🇺🇸 Prime, Kanopy, Tubi, Pluto TV |
| Stupid Young Heart by Selma Vilhunen (Finland) | |
| System Crasher by Nora Fingscheidt (Germany) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Netflix 🇬🇧 BFI Player |
| Thelma by Joachim Trier (Norway) | 🇺🇸 Hulu |
| Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania) | 🇺🇸 Kanopy |
| Transit by Christian Petzold (Germany) | 🇨🇦 Hoopla 🇺🇸 Prime, Hoopla, Kanopy, Mubi 🇬🇧 Mubi |
| Water Lilies by Céline Sciamma (France) | |
| Young Soul Rebels by Isaac Julien (England) | 🇬🇧 Now TV, BFI Player |
Contemporary Documentaries for Teens
| All These Sleepless Nights by Michal Marczak (Poland) | 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Kanopy |
| All This Panic by Jenny Gage | 🇺🇸 Kanopy |
| Angry Inuk by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Prime, NFB 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy, OVID 🇬🇧 Prime |
| Anthropocene by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky & Nicholas de Pencier | 🇨🇦 Crave 🇺🇸 Kanopy |
| At Berkeley by Frederick Wiseman | 🇺🇸 Kanopy |
| Ex Libris by Frederick Wiseman | 🇺🇸 Kanopy |
| Faces Places by Agnès Varda | 🇨🇦 iciTouTV 🇺🇸 Kanopy |
| Free Solo by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺🇬🇧 Disney+ |
| Hail, Satan? by Penny Lane | 🇨🇦 Netflix 🇺🇸 Hulu |
| Inventing Tomorrow by Laura Nix | 🇺🇸 Prime Video |
| LoveTrue by Alma Har’el | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Rent on VOD |
| National Gallery by Frederick Wiseman | 🇺🇸 Kanopy 🇬🇧 Mubi |
| Ninth Floor by Mina Shum | 🇨🇦 NFB 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime Video |
| NUTS! by Penny Lane | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Rent on VOD |
| Rise (TV) by Michelle Latimer and Sarain Fox | 🇦🇺 SBS Movies |
| School Life by David Rane and Neasa Ní Chianáin | 🇨🇦 Hoopla 🇺🇸 Hulu, Hoopla |
| Sherpa by Jennifer Peedom | 🇺🇸 Amazon, iTunes |
| Sonita by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Kanopy 🇨🇦🇬🇧 iTunes |
| Stories We Tell by Sarah Polley | 🇨🇦 NFB 🇺🇸 Tubi 🇦🇺 Stan |
| Women He’s Undressed by Gillian Armstrong | 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy |
| Yours in Sisterhood by Irene Lusztig | 🇺🇸Kanopy |