Growing Up Movies

The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.

In their final year at Muncie's Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an...

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...

Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to...

Marta is a romantic and a loser in school. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and grandma, who tells her granddaughters insurgency stories...

A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day...

Benin has left Adelaide for a new life in Sydney, but he will soon realize that there is only so much charm to a fresh start. The struggles of...

The film offers several variants of growing up at the Mediterranean coast.

On their seventeenth birthday, a young teen stands at the threshold of time, grappling with the bittersweet realization that their childhood and the...

a stop motion short about a little mouse who dreams of growing up and becoming an adult so he can enjoy life to the maximum. one day he wakes up to...

Nick is a caterpillar boy who, having overcome the taboo of the swamp, becomes a butterfly and, regardless of difficulties, strives for his dream -...

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...

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.

This SECOND live broadcast aired a year after the success of the first. Utilizing much of the same cast, it nevertheless is its own unique...

Dutch comedy about three school friends that return to The Marsman College for a reunion of their middle school. Their lives have changed completely...

Sophie, only 11, turns a day of mourning into a journey of discovery and connection. At her mother’s funeral, Sophie’s imaginative spirit...

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

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

​Luna is a vibrant young Chinese-American girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut. From the day she witnesses a rocket launching into space on...

A boy in early teens finds himself in danger of being demoted from his solo part in a choir due to his changing voice. He tries to fight against it,...