Movies: Growing up

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...

One summer evening in a small town in France, two teenage boys, Clarinet and Piano, say goodbye. For twelve years, they rejoin each other at irregular intervals in the same town, discussing their ambitions as they drift apart. Michaël Dacheux's 'Here...

Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life but also her career options. In the studio, the daily work is spiced by the frenzy group of younger ...

Growing up, I heard many tales of my grandmother's life, before she was known as Mimo, and each narrative she told stuck with me and still impact my thinking to this day. I wanted to celebrate Mimo's wisdom and character, as well as capture the extra...

When Arjun, a 8-year-old-boy, expresses his desire to switch from daily car rides with his grandfather, Mr. Chaturvedi, to taking the school bus with his friends, Mr. Chaturvedi goes through an internal crisis leaving him feeling unwanted and lonely....

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

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 us personal memories of his youth and his recent life in the hopes of sketching a clear image of the...

Sofia grew up taking refuge in the river of the village where her grandmother, Salomé, lives. The lightness of summers spent swimming comes to an abrupt end with Salomé's death. Sofia returns to an empty home that is nothing more than a reminder of o...

In this quiet, naturalistic dramatic short, six-year old Sarah grapples with understanding mortality after the sudden death of her older brother, David. With the help of her family, she gradually learns how to process his passing and cope with her gr...

5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him by walking away. A seemingly harmless punishment eventually becomes a pivotal childhood experience fo...

A film about a boy's turbulent time in high school....

All the stories told, all the memories, dreams and lost moments were left in a tank from other generations....

Living in a trailer by the ocean, Carmen does everything to give her half-sister May a better childhood than the one she had....

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

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....

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Fran is a passionate kid that loves skateboarding, but seems to have a small concern about reaching a certain age: 'For me, thirteen is when the difficult age begins. It happened to my cousin and my brother. You start to become kind of weird.' Throug...

Jagoda and Zuzia giggle in the opening scenes in the way that only 11-year-old girls can. Together they are the center of their own changing world. On the face of it, not much happens in the lives of these Polish best friends, but big changes are on ...

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?...

In their final year at Muncie's Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. They are also learning a great deal about life, both in and out of school, and n...