Growing Up Movies

Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 80 years after his world came crashing down.

A teenager who dreams of becoming a pop star learns a lot about life, love, and friendship at summer camp, and that lies have short legs.

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...

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

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

As summer ends, Ren's bandmates and childhood friends are leaving for college. He struggles to write the lyrics of their final song.

Made with a message of hope, Rites of Passage is a raw, uncensored and honest film inspired by the life experiences of the young people involved in...

A wee look into my teenage years.

Once you're old enough to make decisions for yourself, how exactly do you go about doing it? How can you really know which choice is best for you?

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

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...

Hiraeth is a short film about youth long gone, about growing up, about looking at old photos and not recognizing the person within. It’s about...

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...

June and her friends give everything they've got to complete a movie for her college application project.

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

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...

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...

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

For those afraid of growing up and missing out… “O Sol no canto da Folha” tells the story of a girl who’d rather live in her...

Bunny Head don't want to grow old. The beginning of Cabeça de Coelho's story before the short film "Cereja do Bolo"