Coming of Age
see all genres ›Few things have been more inspirational to filmmakers over the years than that period of life when childhood innocence turns to adolescent hunger and adult knowingness.
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Young Bodies Heal Quickly
At the age twenty, Older escapes incarceration and seeks out his ten year old little brother, Younger. Clearly the bad influence, Older gets the boys mixed up in the "accidental" killing of a young girl and they are forced to go into hiding as they wait for their mother to...Watch Movie
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In Bloom
Early nineties, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is immersed in violence, there's a war on the Black Sea coast in Abkhazia and vigilante justice plagues society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable...Watch Movie
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Adirake
When the 2004 tsunami in Thailand took the lives of his family, Adirake, a boy on the verge of adulthood, must learn to adapt to his new life in an orphanage. Recalling the myths his mother would tell him, he searches for a mysterious white elephant, but instead discovers a friendship that...Watch Movie
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From Two Worlds as a Keepsake
1988, in a multi-ethnic town in Soviet Azerbaijan, eight-year old Ashen's divorced Armenian parents are in an emotional tug-of-war over which of them will raise their child. Ashen's custody becomes a complex matter when family tragedy and political danger impact decisions made...Watch Movie
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In the Battlefields
Daughter of self-destructive parents, twelve-year-old Lina doesn't show much interest in the war taking place around her in 1980's Beirut. Instead, Siham, her aunt's beautiful adolescent maid is the focal point of her rebellious and neglected childhood. As the basis for the...Watch Movie
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Tall as the Baobab Tree
In a rural Senegalese village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her eleven-year-old sister from an arranged marriage. A powerful voice from Africa's young generation, TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE poignantly depicts a family...Watch Movie
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17 Girls
Based on a headline-grabbing incident in the U.S., sister directing duo Delphine and Muriel Coulin's provocative debut feature (which they also co-wrote) follows the fallout in a sleepy French coastal town of Brittany, when a group of seventeen teenage girls from the same high school all decide...Watch Movie
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Breakfast with Curtis
Syd, an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine, caused a rift five years ago between the freewheeling bohemian residents of his house and the family next door. Over the course of a balmy summer, he now tries to draft the boy next door to make videos...Watch Movie
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Sea Child
Marina Shron's poetic short film about a young girl, Lila (played by Argentine actress Federica Cafferata), who has lost her father, SEA CHILD is a surreal coming-of-age story. Filmed against the beautiful backdrop of Laguna de Tota, a dreamy mountain lake in Columbia, Shron composes a...Watch Movie
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Felicity
She ain't mama's little girl no more. The luscious Glory Annen stars as Felicity Robinson, a sheltered teen who surrenders her blossoming body to a world of bold sexual adventure. From her forbidden pleasures at at an all-girl school in the countryside to wanton hungers in the exotic underground...Watch Movie
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Green and Blue Lovers
Seattle filmmaker Jimmy Bontatibus was sixteen years old when he made his debut short film about a teenage girl (Juliana Rotskoff) dating an older boy (the "old man" as her buddy calls him). Though it is really only a matter of a couple of years, that can be everything to a...Watch Movie
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Boy Meets Girl
Alex wants to become a filmmaker and is fascinated by first time experiences. His girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas but gives up and wanders the streets. That evening, Mireille, a girl from...Watch Movie
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The Deflowering of Eva van End
In this perfect blend of satire and sincerity, a dysfunctional family gets turned on its head when the 'perfect' exchange student moves in. Every member of the van End family is preoccupied with his or her own peculiar fixation, be it father Evert's Skype relationship with a...Watch Movie
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Little Feet
Determined to set their pet goldfish free, Lana and Nico embark on a magical urban odyssey from their Los Angeles home to the ocean. Their adventure, seen through the eyes of the brother/sister team, is filled with an array of wild and sometimes frightening encounters. LITTLE FEET is the return...Watch Movie
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Days of Gray
It is a world without language. A world where one is raised to respect the rules. No things are owned except the essentials. All must wear masks when venturing from home. All adult males must protect society from outsiders who do not follow the rules. Faith is dead. Hope is dead. Joy is dead....Watch Movie
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The Last Summer of la Boyita
La Boyita is a type of trailer home with the almost magical ability to float, as if it's a species of domestic amphibian. Every summer since her parents bought one, Jorgelina imagines a series of adventures through rivers and forest. But instead, the trailer sits unused,...Watch Movie
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I Killed My Mother
Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I KILLED MY MOTHER beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with...Watch Movie
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The Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky, the acclaimed master of Soviet cinema, takes a moving and personal turn with this striking meditation on life in Russia during the bleak days of WWII. THE MIRROR is not just the display of a film director at the peak of his unique powers. As an homage to the innocence of...Watch Movie
