All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Youth
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18m
by Enzo Smits • 2014 • Belgium
A portrait of young skateboarders growing up in a Flemish suburban town. We meet different characters going through their daily routines: riding around on their skateboards, waiting, hanging out, daydreaming... They fantasize about going away but wouldn’t know where to. The images on their TV screens serve as a gateway, just like the posters on their bedroom walls. The film is a personal retrospect on adolescence, told through accidental encounters, trivial moments and reenactments of memories.
Up Next in Youth
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Because We Are Visual
by Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes • 2010 • Belgium
In Because We Are Visual, Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes explore the world of public video journals. The Internet and its online communities intended to bring people closer together and to connect them. Yet it seems that this virtual w...
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The White Elephant
by Shuruq Harb • 2018 • Palestine
Using images shared on the Internet by Israelis during the Gulf War, the First Intifada, and trance music gatherings, Shuruq Harb paints the portrait of a Palestinian teenager in the 1990s. In the midst of Israeli pop culture and the political climate of the Osl...
