A Yellow Circus is a coming of age, arthouse film, aimed at black girls who refuse to drown. Mack, Tracy, Amari, and Stephanie are schoolmates and teammates on their basketball team, all in the thick of puberty. En route to a basketball tournament, they are left at the beach, where their pubescent repressions are disturbed by the scorching sun, exposing shore, and unsettling bystanders. By sunset, they’ve reached a fever pitch that graduates them into womanhood.

12 year old Javonte is currently struggling with the woes of puberty. She's being bullied, she doesn't think she fits in, her home life's a mess and on top of that, she's still grappling with the loss of her brother. We open on her fighting her bully, Imani and losing in front of her entire neighborhood. Her sister Renesha watches and takes Javonte home. Javonte's mother sees her bruises and punishes her for losing and being "weak". Meanwhile, we see Renesha is currently working to break the family cycle and get her GED. However, she can't help but notice Javonte struggling and decides to toughen Javonte up, teaching her how to be hard in order to survive. In this process, Javonte and Renesha develop a close bond, providing Javonte with a sense of security she's been missing since her brother's death. In the midst of this, Renesha secures a job contingent on her GED, affording her the opportunity to move her and her kids out of the neighborhood and start a better life. This new life is threatened, however, when Renesha's boyfriend, Jordan asks her to take the fall for a crime as he's on his 3rd strike, stating it will be Renesha's first and she'll get off easy. Choosing for her kids to have their father in their life, Renesha agrees and gets arrested just as Javonte wins a brutal fight against her bully. Javonte is once again left alone, and we see a broken family cycle continue.

Set in 1983 at camp, Snot (12) and her all-black girl scout troop seek revenge on an all white privileged troop for calling them a racial slur. However, things take a left turn which leads to a shocking truth.

Farrah and Lisa hang out in Angie’s basement, waiting on her dad to give them a ride to their first big rock concert. Safe in their warm, wood paneled hang-out, they talk about boys and even rehearse their own fledging metal band – The Giant Feminist Electric Mares! But their fun and excitement is cut short. They face what so many women face. And they face it together. A realistic coming of age story that pulls no punches told from the girl’s point of view.

In the aftermath of a halloween party, aging millennial Lanie gets a reminder on her phone that propels her back into the harsh reality of everyday life. Outside, the mundane turns to catharsis as she co-mingles with the pulse of the day. The last half of the film is a sobering, claustrophobic job interview that investigates the depersonalization and the disconnect of the American workplace.