Growing Up Movies

An orphaned bear cub finds a home with a fatherly evergreen tree, until his hunger for trash leads him to danger.

In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish...

Set in suburban America, Henry Goodman fights to liberate his own mind and overcome his father’s small-town ideas of being a good man.

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...

When your knife turns blunt, do you sharpen it or let it become a glorified butter knife at dad's company brunches? Something only you can answer.

A free-flowing, poetic short film filled with expressionist imagery, old photos and abstract moments, led by a voice-over in which the director tells...

Can 3 young girls grow closely through the bittersweet journey of womanhood?

Sitting in Zoe’s beat-up Beetle, two girls chomp on their fast food. At no point do they look at each other. We don’t know why. They...

Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed...

Matilda has been stuck in a memory loop, replaying the same moments over and over again. But this blissful act of remembering quickly turns into a...

It's the day before Grace Fitzgerald's 18th Birthday - aka the last day of her childhood. Desperate to have one last 'golden' day, Grace and her best...

After the death of their mother, two sisters are forced to question and redefine their love for each other.

Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her...

The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki....

Set during the summer of 2016, Jared's world shifts when his best friend, Bando, lands his first job—forcing Jared to confront the one thing...

In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let...

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...

Listless teen, Tyler, spends his days clocking into work and waiting for purpose to find him in his small town. When a mysterious girl breaks his...

"Night Shift" follows 18-year-old Cheryl and best friend Darcy as they waste away the Summer of ’85 waiting tables at the only diner in their...