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 demons, understanding sexual relationships, gaining the respect of one's father, or simply running away from it all. This is only the start of their complex formative years, where not every question has an answer, and not every answer makes sense. The short films are: Boys [Pojkarna] (2015); Ioana (2015); Kiem Holijanda (2017); Picnic [Piknik] (2015); Tomer & Elias [Tomer en Elias] (2016).

A young Nigerian student and poet, abused and neglected by his cruel stepmother, finds solace in fri...

Follows the experiences of young Black men whose lives have been abruptly snatched away. Micah is a ...

Set in Sarajevo in May 2021, the city's famous Old Town tries to recover after a difficult pandemic ...

A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and ...

A story set in 1910s Yorkshire. Sister Mary-Beaumont, a transgender nun, has her faith tested by a w...

Damien, a 16-year old swimmer, clashes with his Coach at practice. In parallel, Damien plays with hi...

Facing the loss of her youthfulness, Matilda finds herself at a turning point in her life. Refreshin...

Kim, an ordinary 15-year-old given mostly to himself, is living with an unmarried mother in a small ...

A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s...

Jacob tries to keep a tradition alive by throwing a Christmas party for his distant friends. The nig...

From a swimming pool in Brazil to the back seat of a car in Germany via an apartment in the early h...

Clara is a lazy and irresponsible teenager, who live in Bissau (the capital city of Guinea-Bissau), ...

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a d...

After losing his innocence, his best friend, and the love of his adolescence, this coming-of-age gan...

A young man's life is abruptly thrown into disarray when the girl he loses his virginity to accuses ...

Yulimar seeks to become independent. Jesús, a rap musician, searches for the best place to continue ...

Link and his brother flee their abusive father and embark on a journey where Link discovers his sexu...

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen...

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the e...