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Chicago – Coming of age dramas are a dime a dozen in Hollywood, but few are ever brave enough to grapple with the profound transitions that occur during one’s teenage years. Young American moviegoers’ first encounter with foreign cinema is often the result of their search for honest and unflinching portraits of sexual awakening and discovery. In terms of sheer maturity, American movies are still woefully below the curve set by most countries.

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One of the best films of the last decade was Céline Sciamma’s “Tomboy,” a captivating French drama about a 10-year-old girl who dresses in boyish clothing and develops feelings for one of her female friends. The picture offered a hopeful twist on Kimberly Peirce’s “Boys Don’t Cry” by accentuating the healing that occurs when one is true to one’s own identity. Sciamma proved to be as skilled as the Dardenne Brothers in...

Bavo Defurne's North Sea Texas goes to Strand Releasing Strand Releasing has picked up all U.S. rights to the coming-of-age story from Wavelength Pictures, reports Variety. The film which makes its U.S. premiere in the World Cinema program of the Palm Springs Film Festival, stars Jelle Floorizoone, Eva Van Der Gucht, Luk Wijns, Thomas Coumans, Mathias Vergels and Nina Marie Kortekaas. The announcement was made today by Strand for the Belgian film which screened at the Rome Cinema Festival where it won the Alice Nella Citta 13+ Award. Adapted from the novel "This Is Everlasting" by Andre Sollie, this is the synopsis, courtesy of the Palm Springs Film Festival: A lonely gay adolescent suffers the pangs of unrequited love in this poignantly rendered coming-of-ager. The narrative unfolds in a small town on the Belgian coast in the late 1960s and 70s, where introverted dreamer Pim grows up accustomed...

Bavo Defurne's North Sea Texas goes to Strand Releasing Strand Releasing has picked up all U.S. rights to the coming-of-age story from Wavelength Pictures, reports Variety. The film which makes its U.S. premiere in the World Cinema program of the Palm Springs Film Festival, stars Jelle Floorizoone, Eva Van Der Gucht, Luk Wijns, Thomas Coumans, Mathias Vergels and Nina Marie Kortekaas. The announcement was made today by Strand for the Belgian film which screened at the Rome Cinema Festival where it won the Alice Nella Citta 13+ Award. Adapted from the novel "This Is Everlasting" by Andre Sollie, this is the synopsis, courtesy of the Palm Springs Film Festival: A lonely gay adolescent suffers the pangs of unrequited love in this poignantly rendered coming-of-ager. The narrative unfolds in a small town on the Belgian coast in the late 1960s and 70s, where introverted dreamer Pim grows up accustomed...