Growing Up Movies

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...

Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia’s parents are pressuring her to decide...

Four high school graduates go on one last camping trip before separating for college.

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

Inspired by the aesthetics of live-staged performances, "Waiting Room" offers a unique artistic portrayal of handling one's childhood and growing up.

A filmmaker celebrates his inspiration for movies by recreating what it was like for his 9-year old self in 1972 when he journeyed downtown to spend...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...