Growing Up Movies

One day, Saki, who lacks self-confidence, is revealed to her best friend Umi about her dream of becoming a model.

Baby Bagnell is fourteen years old. She has two dead parents and one adult boyfriend. A 1980s coming-of-age story about death, dysfunction, and...

A coming of age story of members of a Nahal group, volunteering in a kibbutz named "Kissufim" ("Yearnings" in Hebrew), on the outskirts of the Gaza...

A story of two people in search of a new life, who leave their birthplaces - traveling to a whole different world trying to find a place where they...

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...

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

In their final year at Muncie's Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an...

As the primary caretaker to her mother with Alzheimer’s, Astrid grapples with guilt over their turbulent past and struggles to find direction...

The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.

A wee look into my teenage years.

​Luna is a vibrant young Chinese-American girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut. From the day she witnesses a rocket launching into space on...

At fourteen years of age, Tomás is entering adolescence, that time in your life in which not only do you have to face physical and emotional...

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...

One summer evening in a small town in France, two teenage boys, Clarinet and Piano, say goodbye. For twelve years, they rejoin each other at...

Director Carolin Genreith takes a warmly ironic look at her mother and her female friends but also addresses her own fears and vanities. A vibrant...

Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life...

A young filmmaker accidentally claps her idol’s mystical clapperboard, throwing the two on a frantic journey through film genres and beyond.

A child who just loved to skate from the age of eight, Poppy Starr Olsen became the number one female bowl skater in Australia at 14 and went on to...

It's the day before Grace Fitzgerald's 18th Birthday - aka the last day of her childhood. Desperate to have one last 'golden' day, Grace and her best...

Based on the award-nominated graphic novel by Benjamin Rivers. Dana is a woman who doesn’t deal well with confrontation. She likes her job, her...