Growing Up Movies

The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki....

Four female college students in Los Angeles, who live together and have nursing internships at the same hospital, have their lives complicated by...

The controversial bad-boy of comedy delivers a piercing look at his life, lifting the metaphorical smokescreen that he feels has clouded the public...

A film inspired by the life of Polish rock legend Jan Borysewicz. A story of music, rebellion, and freedom in a world where dreams often collide with...

A young adult recounts childhood memories involving his 6th grade teacher and the lessons she taught, particularly her unconventional assignment: to...

Seven-year-old Anna does not understand the adult world, which, from her perspective, consists solely of frustration and prohibitions. Above all, she...

An orphaned bear cub finds a home with a fatherly evergreen tree, until his hunger for trash leads him to danger.

A father who is confused about explaining the definition of sex to his daughter who is still in first grade, because she feels that it is not the...

During an evening after high-school, friends Josh and Robbie come to realise their outlooks on life are not as similar as they once were.

Can 3 young girls grow closely through the bittersweet journey of womanhood?

Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his...

As the primary caretaker to her mother with Alzheimer’s, Astrid grapples with guilt over their turbulent past and struggles to find direction...

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

Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed...

Teenage delinquents who are living in an island youth center wake up to find themselves alone with no one to watch over them. After much partying,...

Sitting in Zoe’s beat-up Beetle, two girls chomp on their fast food. At no point do they look at each other. We don’t know why. They...

Reality Fatigue tells the story of Adam, a young man returning to his childhood home. In his dusty, neglected room, his mother smokes and longingly...

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her...

Two desperate eighth graders at an elite NYC prep school recruit a crew of misfits to shut down their school, one day at a time, to avoid finals...

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their...