Genre: Coming of Age

A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.

A Congolese teen refugee in Bangui fights to protect his family and hold onto his musical dreams through rap amid growing civil precarity.

A year after a tragic loss, three people united in grief search for healing during an island vacation where memory and reality blur.

An introspective German exchange student searches for meaning and kinship over a transformative year in newly post-9/11 New Mexico.

Filmed over 25 years, this profound study of female intimacy tracks two Argentine cousins as their days of adolescent wonder give way to sobering adulthood.

In this dreamy ink and watercolor animation, music and romance provide escape from rigid family obligation for an imaginative child in an iron back brace.

A high school trip to Naples becomes the staging ground for a profound coming-of-age experience in this spellbinding, mythic portrait of teenhood.

This ode to the creative spirit follows two small-town girls whose friendship is fueled by their shared passion and dream of becoming manga artists.

Spanning a decade, this sprawling yet intimate war-time epic follows several youth as their world is upended and they adapt to the crushing reality of life in Ukraine.

The latest gem from the talented Chicago filmmaking duo (Ghostlight) follows teenager Minnie, who forms a complicated relationship with her best friend’s mother.

The bond between teen best friends is tested when they react in drastically different ways to a traumatic event in this intimate coming-of-age.

Filmmaker Bruno recalls the hazy memories from his eleventh year, reconciling his budding queerness with his father’s diagnosis with HIV.

A young woman whose life is upended by a crash that requires her to use a wheelchair meets an aspiring standup comic whose subversive spirit helps her heal.

Irish Travelers Paddy and Lisa O’Reilly and their 10 children find their traditional way of life under threat in this immersive and tender portrait.

The intimate friendship of Jun and Jasper is threatened when a conflict erupts between their families in this heartfelt portrait of adolescence.