The Zimmerman Effect (2025)

Elephant

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

Freedom Writers

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Boyz n the Hood

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...

Murderous Children

4 stories about 4 criminal children. Two teenagers trapped in a world full of drugs and human trafficking, another two kids bring their loved ones to the limit, other two resentful kids want to fulfill their most evil desires, and one kid who has to decide between killing or loving.

The Class

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Coach Carter

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

Head Under Water

Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old grammar school pupil, an absolute outsider, is in love with the most beautiful girl at his school. What in the beginning is a longing that can never be fulfilled will come true at the end of the story. Beautiful Regine will beg for Rico’s love. Until then several inhabitants of the town will die an unnatural death...

The Wave

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

Duck! The Carbine High Massacre

Derwin and Derick, Neo-Nazis, plan to commit a school shooting and kill themselves after a sick joke by school jocks.

Starting Quarterback

Two former high school quarterbacks are reunited and forced to work together to stop a drug cartel.

Deserted by the Masses

Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?

Lean On Me

When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.

The Siege at Thorn High

Edwin promised to his sister on her death bed to find her son she gave up long time ago. Edwin's quest brought him to become a substitute teacher in Duri High School, Jakarta, a school for juvenile delinquents. There he must face the most violent students to find his nephew. When he eventually finds the boy, a city-wide riot erupts and Edwin is trapped im the school with the cruel kids out for his blood.

i and i

A short film by Samona Olanipekun. A portrayal of contemporary male identity, which peels back the layers of self. A young man spends a day preparing for his 30th birthday while confronted by a very familar person. Featuring Jonathan Ajayi & Samuel Adewunmi

Class of 1999

The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!

Sweet Dreams

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds…

More American Graffiti

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

Blue Spring

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.

J Loop

Nicolas is a 14 y.o. kid who wants to learn boxing from coach Jonathan (J). They develop a friendship and Nicolas schedules a dinner with his single mom Veronica (V) and J. However, the two adults were stuck in a time loop 15 years before.

The City and the Dogs

Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder.

I'm Not Ashamed

Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.

The Class

An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class.

Class of 1984

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.

1:54

Tim, a shy 16-year-old athlete with a natural gift for running, is dealing with the loss of his mother, as well as his sexuality. After a personal video is posted to social media, Tim's private life is about to explode into the public eye.

The Rule of Violence

High school student Sung Jin commits suicide after being the victim of school violence for a long time. Three years later, one of his bullies Han Yeo Wool debuts as a celebrity. Sung Jin's brother, Sung Hyun, blames himself for not recognizing the pain his brother went through and finds a comment on Han Yeo Wool's news report that Sung Jin didn't commit suicide but was instead killed by Yeo Wool. The brother sets out to find the truth and he heads for destruction.

The College Students

A college. His teachers and his students. His conflicts and his lies. His images and his words. His looks and his silences.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

Lesson Plan

After a teacher dies, his best friend — a former cop — takes a job at the school where he worked to confront the gang he thinks was responsible.

Fortune Flies

What are the chances of winning the lottery jackpot and then losing it instantaneously? Our unlucky hero Phaidon is about to find out, in a heart-wrenching turn of events, as fortune flies away.

Anantaram

A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.

The Tribe

Deaf-mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf. In navigating through the school's hierarchy, he encounters a corrupt underbelly of criminality, known as The Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization, when he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwittingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the group."

39/45 : Amours interdites

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Nightbirds

While living rough on the streets of London's East End, a young man named Dink encounters the mysterious Dee and they begin a relationship. When tenderness gives way to cruelty, they become consumed by darkness.

Vidas violentas

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Kulir 100°

Surya is the son of a local don, and studies at the Chengalpet Matriculation School. His mother who is separated from her criminal husband wants him to grow up as a model citizen. Surya who is attached to his mother gives a promise that he will not take the path to violence again, and is admitted to the up market Lake View School in Ooty, described by its principal as the "Best School in south Asia". Surya is looked down by his snooty seniors led by Rohit and his gang. The only person who stands with him is Babloo, and the principal's daughter Tanya who has a soft corner for him. Under extreme provocation, Surya keeps his cool as he tries to live up to his mother's expectations. However he breaks down after Babloo is murdered, and goes on a revenge spree. The film ends on a tragic note, as the message of the film is conveyed.

Snitches Get Stitches

A group of singing, child-friendly puppets' world is shaken up when they graduate from letters and numbers and are transferred to an inner-city high school filled with drugs, gangs, and violence.

Jaci

A lonely artist tries to complete a model, while facing the structural problems of her own house. In a tense morning, Jaci is tormented by the breath of a crack. As the ratio between reality and representation begins to crumble, she is taken on a journey of inner reconstruction.

The Abused Children of Riaumont

For decades, pupils at the children's village of Riaumont, in northern France, run by Catholic monks and priests, were abused: until 2019, thousands of children suffered beatings, forced labor and sexual violence.

Fé em Deus

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Oh, Baby!

Jane is on the hunt for a rockin' one-night stand before an impending arrival.

Stand Down

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ESTRANGED

Living with intrusive thoughts is very uncomfortable. But Yosa had to face it all his life. How does he end his thoughts?

FENNEL

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Rugiada Rossa

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Stucked

The hard, sad and routine life of a student causes him to have to take action.

Slow Ass Night

When a bored worker looks for something to do on his fruitless shift, he finds something that adds a kick to the SLOW ASS NIGHT.

The Heist

One cold and fateful schoolnight, friends Kasey, Lyn, Ry, Zane, & AJ attempt to steal Kasey’s stuff back from her ex, Kyle. What could possibly go wrong?

Alone, But Not Forever

Yamin and his struggles with loneliness and isolation. His little brother, Dhamin, helps him to find some solace through their shared love of drawing. However, Yamin still feels the need to leave and find his own way in the end. It's a touching story about the power of connection and creativity.

Varun! Medha! Varun!

The lives of Varun! - a hopeless romantic, Medha! - a soul searching renaissance woman and Varun! - literally and figuratively homeless, intertwine as they navigate their early-20s.

Non Sarà Sempre Così

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Muerte Apasionada

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Halál a pszichológusnál

One day a special patient comes to the psychologist. The clock is ticking, but is time moving forwards or backwards? What does the one who listens to everyone's story tell?

L'Ombre de l'estime

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Campaign Day

Trouble strikes Nicholls House when favoured candidate Digby Dalitz goes missing. In a race to save him from peril, Alistair Scott leads a brave band of Nicholls House members to locate Digby. But the true danger may have been in front of them the entire time…