Growing Up Movies

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

The world is full of miracles, especially during the shimmering heat of a seaside summer. While vacationing on the Baltic Sea coast, an unusually...

At a new years eve party, high school grad Maya discovers her new year won't unfold as she planned, when her scholarship results and her...

Growing up, I heard many tales of my grandmother's life, before she was known as Mimo, and each narrative she told stuck with me and still impact my...

A story of two people in search of a new life, who leave their birthplaces - traveling to a whole different world trying to find a place where they...

Set in suburban America, Henry Goodman fights to liberate his own mind and overcome his father’s small-town ideas of being a good man.

A coming of age story of members of a Nahal group, volunteering in a kibbutz named "Kissufim" ("Yearnings" in Hebrew), on the outskirts of the Gaza...

A student who is bullied repeatedly develops a deep bond with the leader of a youth gang. As they grow closer, he understands the true meaning of...

A filmmaker revisits footage from his first trip to Japan with his mother over birthday cake, only to uncover how years of undiagnosed lactose...

When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays, he starts feeling increasingly rejected and jealous, as his adolescent daughter...

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...

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

Manuela and Olmo meet in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love. Based on this romantic...

When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to...

A wry, warm, and witty coming of (middle) age comedy, RE-ELECTION follows a 40-something underdog who returns to high school to reboot his past and...

Carl, an old mushroom person, was heading home when he saw a newly born mushroom named Belle. Although Carl didn't want anything to do with her, he...

Anthea is 25, single, hates her job – and all her friends are leaving Brisbane. Should she follow the herd to Sydney or London? Is there...

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...

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

A poetic journey of memory and fantasy told through the eyes of four versions of an artist as she creates her own self-identity.