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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Shot in Mozambique, but set in an unnamed city, the film depicts the life of an orphan boy, Nelio, whose parents were killed by guerrillas. He escapes to the city and finds magic there and is soon rumoured to possess healing powers, in this violent, yet mythic coming -of-age story. Based on a novel by the popular Swedish writer Henning Mankell.
3) Yuni
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Indonesian
Description
Having rejected a marriage proposal and now facing limited options after graduation, Indonesian high-school student Yuni (Arawinda Kirana) finds herself having to define her desires within a society attempting to prescribe her fate. Navigating her burgeoning sexuality and educational prospects while coming to terms with the rigid gender politics with which they collide, Yuni observes her peers and the women around her as they reject or give in to...
4) Yangsi
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a young Tibetan boy who is recognized as the reincarnation of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the most revered Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. He is known as The Yangsi, "The one who has come again into existence." Providing a unique window into the world of Tibetan Buddhism, this film is a coming of age story with universal themes, made over a fourteen-year period by Mark Elliott, an acclaimed filmmaker...
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
11-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions with his sister on the border highway of Kazakhstan. One day, he catches his mom having an affair with a trucker. But soon he discovers the powers of Viagra, and goes on a misadventure to get some for his dad.
6) Gagarine
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Youri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarine Cité, a vast red brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. From the heights of his apartment, he dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when plans to demolish his community’s home are leaked, Youri joins the resistance.
7) Inside out 2
Publisher
Walt Disney Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The little voices inside Riley's head know her inside and out - but everything changes with the introduction of a new emotion: Anxiety.
9) Mack & Rita
Publisher
Page Fifty-Four Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A 30-year-old writer spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her inner 70-year-old
Publisher
Tanglewood Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A coming-of-age film about two anxious teens growing up in London in the 2000s. Maisy is self-conscious and constantly overanalyzing. She is obsessed with having her first kiss this year, before she turns seventeen, but stalking the boy next door doesn't seem to be working. Meanwhile Ben, a boy from a nearby school, is happy being a nerd and thinking he's better than everyone else until his grades start plummeting. For the first time, he must come...
12) Beans
Publisher
FilmRise
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge. Torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence, she is forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior that she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are a pair of best friends in their final year of high school. They're both obsessed with the school's brass band club. With Mizore on the oboe and Nozomi on the flute, they spend their days in happiness, until the club begins to practice songs inspired by the fairy tale Liz und ein Blauer Vogel - "LIZ AND THE BLUE BIRD". Immersed in this story, Mizore and Nozomi begin to realize that there may be no such thing as...
15) That's what I am
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a well-meaning English teacher pairs a well-liked student with the school's biggest outcast on an important class project, determined to teach both boys courage and acceptance
Publisher
Hannover House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A high school senior living in the Ozarks sees a chance to escape his struggling community and pursue a college education with a baseball scholarship, but his crippling stutter and devotion to a wheelchair-bound friend suffering from cerebral palsy make him hesitate to pursue his dreams
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Franky Winter and Ballas Kohl have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life, until the night of Franky's epic seventeenth birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. It is a heartfelt and intimate coming -of -age story about friendship, self-discovery and the power of...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A cross-generational coming-of-age story of three teenage girls and a socially awkward man with Tourette's disorder who bond over a cross-country road trip. Along the way, they each learn to stop using his illness as an excuse to hide from life, and that love and family can be found in unexpected places.
19) Electric Jesus
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a flashy promoter sells a Christian metal band on the promise of a summer tour in 1986, their desire to 'make Jesus famous' meets the complexities and confusion of personal ambition, youthful zeal, lifelong friendships, and first love."
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition
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