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‘There’s so much behind my smile you don’t even know.’
Ninnoc wants to stand out from the crowd, but she’s afraid of what it might cost her. As she navigates the social pressures of high school, Ninnoc wavers between frustration and despair, her head vibrating with a constant hum of anxiety. In her moving portrait, the Dutch director Niki Padidar confronts the slippery nature of adolescent turmoil with artistry and empathy, spending time with her subject in private, in school and in staged settings where Ninnoc expresses herself creatively. The result is a film that deftly conveys Ninnoc’s courageous yet fragile attempts to balance fitting in with being herself – a struggle that for many resonates far beyond the classroom walls.
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Childhood and adolescence
‘Do worms cry?’ – and other questions collected from the mind of a curious child
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Personality
A ‘little thief’ turned career criminal recounts a life on the wrong side of the law
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Consciousness and altered states
‘I want me back’ – after a head injury, Nick struggles with his altered reality
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War and peace
Two Ukrainian boys’ summer unfolds just miles from the frontlines
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Virtues and vices
Why Bennie tried to disappear, and what happened when he was found decades later
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Technology and the self
The commodified childhood – scenes from two sisters’ lives in the creator economy
14 minutes
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Sports and games
Havana’s streets become racetracks in this exhilarating portrait of children at play
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Home
How an artist transformed a dilapidated hunting lodge into a house made of dreams
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Animals and humans
The wild tale of a young animal keeper, an angry tiger and a torn circle net
10 minutes