Growing Up Movies

A wee look into my teenage years.

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in...

Ella is about to commence the next chapter of her life. Within three months her world will change, whether she can persevere and deal with whatever...

Clara and Luana are leaving a party, with short clothes, a chill in their stomachs and both slightly intoxicated

Kati, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is suffering from an incurable illness. She must go through steps of happiness and sorrow, bonding and...

Whales are the largest mammals in the oceans. Giants like Moby Dick inhabit the world’s oceans. But Flipper, the dolphin, also belongs to their...

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...

The film follows different stages in the life of Sofía, a young girl born in Argentina of Chinese descent. From her childhood to her...

Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the northernmost community in the United States. As...

A short film depicting adolescence.

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?

5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him...

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

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

A summer day. In the middle of a rollerblading ride, you stop by a building long out of use. You don’t come there to swim - there’s no...

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

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

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...

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