Movies: Underdogs and coming of age

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...

Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends...

Four teens from around the world step off the path they were told to follow — and take the road less travelled....

Gali enrolls in university to study monumental painting, a field that has fascinated her since childhood. Student life feels like a routine—until she encounters the subject of composition, which stirs her mind and motivates her to learn. She achieves...