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- Kentucky teen Keith Griffith III began beekeeping when both of his parents were incarcerated. Beekeeper shines a light on the ways in which bees have taught Keith about cooperation, sustainability, community, and emotional well-being.
- A sixteen year old AIDS orphan directs a documentary about finding a new family in Maputo, Mozambique.
- Diya Payal , a 14 year old from India, explores how climate change and industrial agriculture are threatening plant species, and ways in which food, family and farming are connected to her spiritual relationship with the natural world.
- Native American teen activist 17-year-old Daunnette Moniz-Reyome shares her family's journey to retain the sacred rituals and values of their culture.
- Tymur Tsapliienko, 17, a Ukrainian refugee, shares his view on the cost of war and the price of the world's dependence on fossil fuels. Tymur helps us to begin to understand the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine's exiles as well as what led to this crisis. He makes a connection between the war and Europe's dependence on Russia's fossil fuels. His film travels a reverse journey, from Germany back through Poland to meet his father, who was injured in a Russian bombardment while reporting for a Ukrainian news channel and whom he hasn't seen in months. Along the way, he interviews other teenage refugees. Each conversation helps him understand the conflict and his own feelings toward it. Through Tymur's eyes we glimpse displays of human solidarity and even hope for a chance at a new life.
- María Ceballos Paz, a 16-year-old girl, is one of the estimated four million Colombians driven from their homes by decades of civil war. Now living in the slums of Cali, she intimately brings us into her world. Through her lens and mentored by Hollywood television producer, Susan Hoenig, María puts a human face on the cost of civil war and the drug trade.
- Rinzin Jurmey (age 18) documents the ways in which he - and his country - are striving to preserve ancient practices and tradition under globalization's pressure to modernize.
- The 17-year-old exiled King of Tibet tells his rare, personal and timely story. Namgyal Wangchuk Trichen Lhagyari is the only living descendant of Songtsen Gampo, the first Dharma King of Tibet (617-698 AD). Namgyal Wangchuk represents his long lineage after being coronated a Tibetan King by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in exile five years ago. He is part of a generation of young Tibetans struggling to retain their traditional culture in the face of persecution.
- Muhammad (age 17) made the perilous journey from Syria to Berlin and struggles with his family to set up a new life.
- Ndèye Fatou Fall (age 13) explores cultural shifts as her small village abandons forced marriage and genital cutting.
- 12-year-old Edelsin Linette Mendez illuminates the consequences of climate change on the coffee market, her community's traditional source of livelihood and Nicaragua's primary agricultural product.
- Semon Shabaev (age 19) tells his story about resurgent Jewish life in Germany at a time of rising antisemitism worldwide.
- Mentored by filmmakers Chiemi Karasawa and Hollis Meminger, 19-year-old Mike Martin reflects on his incarceration on Rikers Island and the affect it had on his life.
- Jayshree Janu Kharpade of India was taken out of school when she was seven years old to raise her two younger brothers and contribute to her parents' labor at a brick kiln site. Exceptionally bright and motivated, she pleaded for years with her parents to let her return to her studies. Her mother used to tell her, 'education is one of the luxurious things we poor people cannot afford. So stop thinking about it and pay proper attention to your siblings and help us earn our living.' When her parents finally relented, she quickly rose to the top of her class. Now aged 15, Jayshree reveals to us the immense social and economic benefits of educating girls in the developing world.
- Faiza Almontaser, a 17-year-old from New York City, immigrated with her family to the US from Yemen when she was in middle school, and she faced vicious bullying because of her Islamic identity. Mentored by the legendary pioneer of direct cinema, Albert Maysles, Faiza shows us her courageous and inspiring journey from victim to activist.