Movies: Growing up

A filmmaker celebrates his inspiration for movies by recreating what it was like for his 9-year old self in 1972 when he journeyed downtown to spend a magical Saturday afternoon at the movies....

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 relations....

The film RYTMUS Housing Estate Dream took 8 years to create and closely documents the life of one of the most famous personalities of the Czech-Slovak music scene. Patrik "Rytmus" Vrbovský grew up in an ordinary family in a housing estate in Piešťany...

A basic sex education film designed for young engaged couples....

A father who is confused about explaining the definition of sex to his daughter who is still in first grade, because she feels that it is not the time for her daughter to understand sex....

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

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 do something to break the fear....

The weekend before their high school graduation, longtime best friends Hally and Joe visit their old hometown haunts to reminisce about the past. Each location represents a stage of grief as the two friends leave their adolescence behind them and pre...

A high school student faces uncertainty when presented with the thought of growing up. As he delves into his memories, he uncovers the blissful childhood that once was....

Whales are the largest mammals in the oceans. Giants like Moby Dick inhabit the world’s oceans. But Flipper, the dolphin, also belongs to their species. Hampie, the little humpback whale, will not become as huge as Moby Dick. But at his birth he is a...

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

Ella is about to commence the next chapter of her life. Within three months her world will change, whether she can persevere and deal with whatever is thrown at her is yet to be seen....

Bunny Head don't want to grow old. The beginning of Cabeça de Coelho's story before the short film "Cereja do Bolo"...

Director Carolin Genreith takes a warmly ironic look at her mother and her female friends but also addresses her own fears and vanities. A vibrant portrait which looks beyond the borders of one twentysomething’s coolly urban lifestyle in Berlin to ex...

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 menstruation is to her, by using diagrams....

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

A short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of his daily life as he interacts with different forms of environmental, familial, and social influences. Whil...

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?...

Children of alcoholic parents have been fighting for a precarious normality within their family since early childhood. They look after the addicted mother or father and try to stop them from drinking. They are always afraid that someone might find ou...