Growing Up Movies

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...

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

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

A happy young boy is enjoying his 16th birthday when he begins having fears about reaching adulthood, but his caring parents notice this and try to...

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

Everyone in town knows Simón's story, because like a rumor or an urban legend, it has been spreading among its inhabitants, the few who...

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...

A wee look into my teenage years.

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...

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

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

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

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

Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other '60s rebels, then and now in a follow up to his...

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

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...

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

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...

Once you're old enough to make decisions for yourself, how exactly do you go about doing it? How can you really know which choice is best for you?