Joe’s Life

Dreamy, Uncertain & Dying Everyday

2025

Eighteen-year-old Shehab is a dreamy teen torn between his ambition of becoming a psychology teacher and his struggles with communication. In a heartfelt journey of self-discovery, he must confront his insecurities and re-evaluate his confidence as he navigates the challenges of adolescence.

Cairn

2008 · ★ 7.4

Cairn is a dark film on adolescence in which the main character Johan (11) faces a moral dilemma after having started playing a seemingly innocent prank. The story unfolds on a l level in the turbulent transition between childhood and adulthood.

Last 17 Day

2023

The story centers on Kurumi Hosoya, a high school senior and member of the newspaper club, who is one week away from turning 18. When her childhood friend, Naoki Tachibana, gains sudden fame for rescuing an elderly woman on the last day of his 17th year, Kurumi becomes determined to achieve something remarkable before her own birthday. Her efforts, however, often lead to unintended consequences.

Scuba

2024

An outcast student and a theater reject test their budding relationship by putting on an audacious school play.

Sayonara, Girls.

2023 · ★ 9.1

2 days until the “Last Graduation Ceremony” of high school, the building was to be demolished. Each student accepted their “farewell to youth” and moved forward with regret and hope in mind. One student visits the library to meet her secret admirer who is also her teacher, one calls her boyfriend with a strained relationship due to the distance of their colleges, one is trying to expose a secret that she hid for the last 3 years, and the last student, Manami, has to give a speech during the graduation ceremony but couldn’t overcome her pain.

Marie Antoinette

2006 · ★ 6.7

A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Big Monster on Campus

1998 · ★ 5.2

A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it.

Battle Royale

2000 · ★ 7.3

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up

The Clifford Family is selling their farm to start a new life when the boy, Andy, discovers an endangered bird on the property and must decide whether to let it become known or to shoot, shovel and shut up.

One More Final

2025

"A young artist presents his last show. While the audience watches the story of everything, he struggles to let go."

Seeing Someone Else

2024 · ★ 10

A young man coming to terms with his future, as well as the impact he has on those around him. After a devastating break-up, John, begins taking a mysterious drug that allows him to see his ex-girlfriend as though she never left. As time goes on however, he realizes that this imaginary woman has little in common with the person he used to know.

My Friend Dahmer

2017 · ★ 6.5

Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.