The everyday lives of teenagers, coming from various social backgrounds. For them, sexuality has become a substitute for love, resulting from emotional neglect.
Social & External
The people behind it
Muriel Wimmer
Sarah
Antonia Putiloff
Charly
Isabell Gerschke
Doreen
Joseph Bundschuh
Lukas
Philipp Kubitza
Diggnsäck
Gerdy Zint
Maik
Gisa Flake
Yvonne
Chiron Elias Krase
Robert
Claudia Geisler-Bading
Silke, Lukas' Mother
Thomas Bading
Martin, Lukas' Father
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Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
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Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life.
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
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Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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A young girl struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.
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