Tag Archives: coming of age

The film is set in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution. It is told from the perspective of Ma Xiaojun nicknamed Monkey, a teenage boy. Monkey ...

Thirteen-year-old Jesse wants to be an artist and believing that his mundane, middle-class life has left him unprepared, he sets out looking for ...

The story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin. They each have a lady friend, and everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares ...

Ahmed, 18, is French of Algerian origin. He grew up in the Parisian suburbs. On the benches of the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian ...

Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the ...

Loosely based on real life events, Gregoire follows four young adults and the choices they make when put at a crossroads of their life. As they ...

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky ...

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.

A young man from the Congo in search of his brother attempts to cross Europe’s borders. In Morocco, he teams up with a sharp-witted British ...

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a ...

When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to ...

Suffering because of his father’s departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by ...

Inspired by her grandfather’s stories, young Shinko embarks on wild flights of fancy about the history of the little town she lives in. But ...

Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon’s power to complete the ultimate weapon ...

Teen artist Angie Chen turns to secret hook-ups with the heartthrob of her private school after her parents’ sudden divorce.

Kostya and his friends are young and love playing street football. Kostya dreams of playing professionally, but cannot bring himself to approach ...

“Boyz N the Hood” meets “Blood In, Blood Out” in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob ...

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ...

It’s Friday night and five friends on the cusp of adulthood gather at a house to celebrate the end of another school week. They drink. They ...

A lonely high schooler suddenly meets the love of his life out of thin air. Is she a real person or a figment of his imagination?

When 13-year-old Tommy loses his parents to a drug raid, he turns to a phone sex operator (his fairy godmother) for help as he embarks on an ...

A charming story about an 11-year-old boy, Sultan, looking for innocent love after loosing his mother when he was a kid. After Sultan finds an ...

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is ...

They’re all nuts. Her parents, who want to send her off to boarding school. Her new teacher, who expects her to read impossibly old books. Her ...

Before heading off to college, an overthinking teenager asks out a former girlfriend in an effort to reconnect and hold on to his past.

School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie ...

Goldie, a precocious teenager in a family shelter, wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of ...

A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Mo attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke, an ...

A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with ...

A 14-year-old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion ...