Growing Up Movies

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...

Set during the summer of 2016, Jared's world shifts when his best friend, Bando, lands his first job—forcing Jared to confront the one thing...

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

A story about 6 kids who grew up together and stayed together, once strangers, then friends, now family. Both a video diary and a travelogue, this...

After getting suspended from school and fighting with her mom, 14-year-old 'Bucket' finds herself confronted with the harsh reality of trying to grow...

Waking up from a dream he can’t seem to forget, Faizan struggles to maintain the newly structured life he’s built for himself, dazed and...

Children of alcoholic parents have been fighting for a precarious normality within their family since early childhood. They look after the addicted...

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...

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

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

Following the international hit The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, The Boy Mir will cover not one year but ten. It will track the cheeky,...

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...

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...

Told across two intertwining timelines, two best friends must confront the tension in their bond when one begins a new romantic relationship, forcing...

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...

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

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...

As Jack reluctantly prepares to move out of his childhood home, he finds that some childish things don't want to be put away.

Jimmy is a young man who is going through a very difficult time in his life. He meets Joe, who works for a private company that offers free health...