"I don't know where to turn, don't know what to do. I'm walking on thin ice." Kids—some criminal, others merely resourceful—face a variety of hurdles in these captivating shorts. A high school underground cheating network risks exposure by its own school paper in Nick Weiss-Richmond and Rachel Cole's Big Cheat (US 2014, 16 min). A young African boy has his hands full trying to make ends meet for his family in Richard Card's vibrant Zawadi (Kenya/US 2014, 13 min). A children's birthday party is the source of sinister doings in David A. Bornstein's tragicomic A King's Betrayal (US 2014, 9 min). The apprentice to a desperate door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman decides to call on an unusual customer far off their normal route in Kate Marks's mystical Miracle Maker (US 2014, 13 min). And a pre-teen Bonnie and Clyde go on a very stylish crime spree in Fidel Ruiz-Healy's love letter to '60s cinema, A Band of Thieves (US 2015, 14 min).