Growing Up Movies

Living in a trailer by the ocean, Carmen does everything to give her half-sister May a better childhood than the one she had.

Lía is a dedicated and hard-working seventeen-year-old student but, despite her efforts to give her best, she carries a secret that is...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

This short movie takes us through beautiful landscapes and oppressive spaces. A dream sequence that leads to liberation, on the border between...

A short film depicting adolescence.

The film follows three boys as they play and interact, revealing a familiar dynamic: teasing, bullying, and testing each other’s limits. We see...

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...

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

When a young boy who enjoys biking gets their driver's licence, he realises how driving shares many similarities with biking, so he explores those...

Four high school graduates go on one last camping trip before separating for college.

Maya is a teenage girl with teenage problems, suffering with her self-esteem and dealing with her bully Pedro, that she's deeply in love with....

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

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