The Wise Kids

A subtle yet powerful coming-of-age drama, set within a small-town Baptist community in South Carolina, captures the events of the last summer before three best friends leave to go to university. Sensitive Tim is confronting the fact that he might be gay. Brea, the preacher's daughter, is beginning to doubt her own faith. Laura, a devout believer, is finding it difficult to accept her friend's homosexuality, seeing it as an incompatible paradox. Understated in style, this is a tender, convincing look at young Christians, who approach faith with sincere enthusiasm, but eventually have to seek reconciliation between traditional Christian beliefs and the deepest human emotions. (Febiofest)