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"After chasing sunsets, one of life's simple joys is playing with the boys." - Kenneth Clark Loggins

Mary is in her last course of school. She'll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relations and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.

Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.

During the early morning, a young man begins to hear noises in his room after ignoring an image on his WhatsApp.

A monologue about social media and how it's changed and ruined the generation to come.

The pursuit of happiness (and the display of happiness on social media!) has become a veritable cult. Happiness has become a social imperative, just like slimness, beauty and success. To better understand this obsessive quest for happiness, journalist Marie-Claude Élie-Morin takes an in-depth and personal look into this seemingly pervasive trend that sometimes leads to painful consequences.

High-school student Camille Collins finds herself in a social media spin-out after her crush, Dylan, spreads rumors that she’s a bad kisser. So, Camille creates a “kiss list” to prove Dylan wrong and find her one true love. Her plan derails early and often, with social media meltdowns and backlash from classmates, her best friend, Liam, and her single mom, who struggles with her daughter’s bisexuality. Adapted from Sara Jo Cluff’s young-adult book of the same name.

A woman travels through a virtual world in which she is only recognized through her publications on social media or her reflections on the screen. Her day seems to pass in the circuits of a virtual platform where she interacts with other Internet users, chatting, reading articles online or ordering delivery. She is interrupted by a sound that forces her to walk through her house until she discovers something that will reveal the most painful and revealing aspects of her own existence.

Yawth is a story about the social media generation. On a typical Friday night Vicky wants to reach the party her crush is going to, but the night does not go as planned.

A student's chances of getting into a good college hang in the balance when inappropriate photos of her are posted on the Internet.

Plugged In explores how social media and smart phone usage has an effect on our younger generations, those who are now born into a world technologically ready and know nothing else - and how hard it is to remove this element from their lives in these modern times. It looks into the design of social media being a purposeful tool used to keep people hooked in, taken away from face to face reactions and how the attitudes towards people through these mediums have become darker.