This year marks the thirteenth anniversary of the Junior Film Fleadh, which this year celebrates the teenager.

The films in this programme explore the different aspects of teenage journeys. Red Like The Sky is the tale of a blind boy who loves cinema, who grew up to be one of Italy's most prominent sound designers. It is a triumphant story of accomplishment over adversity, told with compassion, and a refreshing lack of sympathy for its blind protagonists.

God Grew Tired of Us is a documentary that is engaging, funny and tragic in equal measures as it chronicles its teenage protagonists' integration to American society from a Kenyan refugee camp. As such, they have never experienced an airplane, running water or electricity. Will the US prove to be their idea of heaven? This is much an examination of the material values of the US, as well as the power of community and national identity within the people of Sudan.

32A is a stunning film that explores the emotional growing pains of teenage girls. In addition to the screening, the fleadh will host a Q&A session with some of the film's young stars, who will discuss their experience of making the film.

The centerpiece of this year's Junior Fleadh will be a screening of Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, one of the world's most iconic teenagers. The film is a silent masterpiece and it will be played along with a recent score by Richard Einhorn ? specially commissioned for the film. This screening will challenge the perception that silent cinema cannot be as gripping and as emotionally satisfying as anything in an omniplex.

Under The Mud is a great accomplishment, not just because local teenagers wrote it but also because it is such an enjoyable film that examines the importance of family and community within Liverpool. Indeed many of the young cast will be present for the screening and there will be a questions and answers session afterwards.

In conjunction with the Irish Film Institute, the fleadh will screen two new films.

Comme Une Image, a French Film, is a contemporary look at family relationships and the nature of celebrity, while the German film Warchild focuses on a Bosnian woman's search for her fostered daughter.