Growing Up Movies

When your knife turns blunt, do you sharpen it or let it become a glorified butter knife at dad's company brunches?

Delphyne (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance, taboos around menstrual blood are...

A short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of...

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...

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...

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

The film twice states that it doesn't intend a moral injunction, but it clearly does with comments such as "our society... regards sexual intercourse...

The weekend before their high school graduation, longtime best friends Hally and Joe visit their old hometown haunts to reminisce about the past....

You didn't waste it.

Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to...

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

Between the hustle and bustle of music, drinks and questionable bathrooms, three girls with different lives have more in common than what they might...

Following a single father & his 3 kids, watch the struggle, stress, & strength of what the everyday life is like growing up & those growing pains...

Bori (17) refuses to be harassed by the boys. Her artistic, but unstable mother does not give her the support she needs. Her caring grandfather...

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...

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....

Four young people searching for their place in life and in society. Over ten years, the director observes how the protagonists, between success and...

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

Bryan Wilmoth is the oldest of eight children who grew up in a very strict household. Eventually, all the siblings became estranged from their...