Adolescence Movies

A major figure in contemporary feminism and the first Frenchwoman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux is seen by many as a source of...

1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly...

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina.

Baby Bagnell is fourteen years old. She has two dead parents and one adult boyfriend. A 1980s coming-of-age story about death, dysfunction, and...

Gabrielle, a 19 years old, finds herself stuck near Death Valley between two parents who no longer speak to each other. The three of them, feeling...

In 1973, the 20-year-old Svante has a heart condition that the doctors cannot fix. When he has a breakdown on a subway platform, a strange train...

Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of...

A new haircut. A look. And the horrendous routine of high school becomes an odyssey of love for 16-year-old Romane. But Diego is as good-looking as...

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth to death and beyond.

School girl Miyuri Obara is bullied mercilessly but finds relief in an unexpected friendship with Tsumugi. Yet even as Miyuri's life turns around...

Adolescent love troubles set in a beautiful Uzbek mountainside.

When Rakel finds out she's six months pregnant after a one-night stand, her world changes. She is absolutely not ready to be a mother, but since...

The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job,...

Hayat, a soccer fanatic from Hamburg, has breast cancer. After the operation, the 20-year-old feels disfigured and is no longer allowed to play...

Two friends, a boy and a girl, at the age of 16, decide to deal with the taboo of being naked.

These five award-winning coming of age short films offer a glimpse of how boys and young men tackle life's difficult desires: confronting one's...