Just Beads

An awkward teenager wrestles with whether or not to let her boyfriend go up her shirt.

Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional treatment center to recover. She has to travel elsewhere, however, to truly begin to understand why she fixates on the wrong kind of guy.

A melancholy ex-boyfriend becomes a nanny to prove to his girlfriend that he’s ready to have children.

Human lives grappling with all the flavors of exstential despair intersect in a deadpan collage of comic suffering.

In a Home for unwed mothers in 1962, a pregnant girl tries to save her friend’s memories in order to save their friendship.

A group of coworkers buy a piano at a yard sale for a friend in need.

Claire just turned 40 years old, got dumped, and moved home to take care of her dying dad. She decides it’s time for her to go on a date.

An argument over loading the dishwasher threatens to destroy a marriage.

A meeting in a therapist's waiting room goes horribly wrong.

'The Secret Life of Girls' is a free-form documentary that follows a year in the life of two little sisters growing up against the backdrop of the changing New England Seasons. Told entirely from a child's perspective, the film puts a microscope on the small obstacles of youth, allowing us to see the beauty of everyday struggle. This big film about small things, reveals children to be little warriors, fighting for growth, experience, and the discovery of life's mysteries. For the brief course of the film, we are allowed to join them and get lost in the world of the senses.