Growing Up Movies

A lonely boy finds his passion in football and pursues the sport to endure the difficulties of growing up.

Fran is a passionate kid that loves skateboarding, but seems to have a small concern about reaching a certain age: 'For me, thirteen is when the...

A filmmaker revisits footage from his first trip to Japan with his mother over birthday cake, only to uncover how years of undiagnosed lactose...

At a new years eve party, high school grad Maya discovers her new year won't unfold as she planned, when her scholarship results and her...

In this quiet, naturalistic dramatic short, six-year old Sarah grapples with understanding mortality after the sudden death of her older brother,...

Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other '60s rebels, then and now in a follow up to his...

The film offers several variants of growing up at the Mediterranean coast.

A boy in early teens finds himself in danger of being demoted from his solo part in a choir due to his changing voice. He tries to fight against it,...

At the age of 8, Vaselinetjie is taken away by the Welfare and send to the orphanage. It's a strange, hard, dangerous world of rebel children, fierce...

After a brief but intense relationship with a rootless young man, a quiet woman must confront the unsettling realization that she has lost her sense...

On their seventeenth birthday, a young teen stands at the threshold of time, grappling with the bittersweet realization that their childhood and the...

When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to...

Based on personal memories and experiences of childhood, set in and around a Glasgow housing scheme. A triptych of moments of reflection and loss in...

You didn't waste it.

A group of friends goes on a trip to Malino, a well-known region in South Sulawesi. Through fragmented scenes that blur between fiction and reality,...

Molly anxiously awaits her first sign of menstruation, which means that she'll be able to date and go dancing. The school nurse explains exactly what...

Tomas, a young actor, tries to balance the young adult lifestyle: relationships, parties and a career. At a party he randomly reconnects with his...

Living in a trailer by the ocean, Carmen does everything to give her half-sister May a better childhood than the one she had.

Pulang tapi Hilang follows Dika, a young man who returns home after spending time away studying at an Islamic boarding school. But things don't feel...