Tag Archives: coming of age

When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to starting his life afresh. However, in the local ...

From acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Meng (The Piano in a Factory), this Chinese remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s (Cinema Paradiso) Everybody’s ...

The young Katelijne grows up in a strict Protestant peasant family. As the only girl between six brothers, she is hardly involved in farm work ...

A man recounts his life in Beijing during the 1980s and reminisces about the one truth that allowed him to endure.

After the death of his father, a boy growing up on a lunar mining colony takes a trip to explore a legendary crater, along with his four best ...

The films spans two decades as the story unfolds in a series of flashbacks that begin when Qiyue and Ansheng were just thirteen. The two became ...

At the age of 13, Rafael Bregman has already lost his virginity, but has never kissed a girl. With his pimple-riddled face, his dysfunctional ...

17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. ...

A remote village 100 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires. Stephen, Matías, Alejo, Damián and Guido were born 13 years ago in this small ...

A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool ...

Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends — ...

A coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in amongst a varied cast of characters.

An aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, ...

A story about the beautiful but confused young woman Helene, who, according to her mother, was born as a ‘technical error’. Helene ...

When Laura and Christine meet Maria, their friendship takes an intense turn to vulnerability, love and sex.

Abdellah is a young gay man navigating the sexual, racial and political climate of Morocco. Growing up in a large family in a working-class ...

Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older ...

Alicia is a 42-year-old-woman whose grief has caused her estrangement from society. Her world is turned upside down when 14-year-old Chief, a ...

“Mad” Mary McArdle returns to Drogheda after a short spell in prison for something she’d rather forget. Back home, everything ...

Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani ...

Carlos lives in a boarding school in the centre of Bogotá and longs to spend Christmas with his family. The circumstances around him force him to ...

A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions ...

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she ...

Sylvain and Pierre have been running from the law ever since a custody battle with their mother pushed their father Yves into hiding ten years ...

Two thirteen year-olds have always been incredibly close but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by ...

At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of ...

When something unexpected happens in Oliverio’s family, all he wants to do is walk away. He settles on a deckchair by the pool and decides there ...