Growing Up Movies

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...

A free-flowing, poetic short film filled with expressionist imagery, old photos and abstract moments, led by a voice-over in which the director tells...

Lía is a dedicated and hard-working seventeen-year-old student but, despite her efforts to give her best, she carries a secret that is increasingly di...

Monolinguist Josh Kornbluth's meditation on growing up as the child of Communist parents.

A short film depicting adolescence.

This short movie takes us through beautiful landscapes and oppressive spaces. A dream sequence that leads to liberation, on the border between imagina...

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, b...

Matilda has been stuck in a memory loop, replaying the same moments over and over again. But this blissful act of remembering quickly turns into a com...

Maya is a teenage girl with teenage problems, suffering with her self-esteem and dealing with her bully Pedro, that she's deeply in love with. Luckily...

Roald is thrown into a peculiar situation when his grandmother's watermelon is suddenly worth 20 million kroner.

Faced with unemployment, a young paperboy must choose between his trade and his friends.

This short film tells the story of a childhood, of a friendship and of growing up. A young man returns to the village where he grew up and discovers t...

Jagoda and Zuzia giggle in the opening scenes in the way that only 11-year-old girls can. Together they are the center of their own changing world. On...

End of Restriction enters into the claustrophobic world of a teenage boy growing up in an English village. The film follows the boy’s cycle journey, o...

A foreboding glimpse into the life of a girl under pressure from her parents concerning her eating behavior and childish tastes. Ignoring the family f...

When Arjun, a 8-year-old-boy, expresses his desire to switch from daily car rides with his grandfather, Mr. Chaturvedi, to taking the school bus with...

In this semi-fictional film, a group of friends goes on a trip to Malino, a well-known region in South Sulawesi. The fictional plot focuses on nostalg...

A 14-year-old tries to express himself by wearing a purple cape to school for a day.

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