Growing Up Movies

Bryan Wilmoth is the oldest of eight children who grew up in a very strict household. Eventually, all the siblings became estranged from their...

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...

Tomas, a young actor, tries to balance the young adult lifestyle: relationships, parties and a career. At a party he randomly reconnects with his...

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

Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 80 years after his world came crashing down.

The industrial noise of a factory in the Isle of Grain provides a percussive backbeat as a group of local children rap about their lives and play in...

Nils and his two best friends are invited to a 25 year reunion for their student years. Nils is given the task of holding the main speech. This comes...

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...

'Alan Smithee' is a film about a boy growing up. It delves into the darker side of what 'growing up' sometimes means: growing into your flaws,...

When Arjun, a 8-year-old-boy, expresses his desire to switch from daily car rides with his grandfather, Mr. Chaturvedi, to taking the school bus with...

Made with a message of hope, Rites of Passage is a raw, uncensored and honest film inspired by the life experiences of the young people involved in...

You didn't waste it.

A foreboding glimpse into the life of a girl under pressure from her parents concerning her eating behavior and childish tastes. Ignoring the family...

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,...

Peter Pan is an adolescent boy who has escaped from his parents to the dreamland of Nowhere. Peter is determined to remain a little boy forever;...

This short film tells the story of a childhood, of a friendship and of growing up. A young man returns to the village where he grew up and discovers...

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

A summer day. In the middle of a rollerblading ride, you stop by a building long out of use. You don’t come there to swim - there’s no...