Coming of Age Films

Coming-of-age films form a genre of their own. It refers to films in which older children and adolescents are confronted with fundamental questions of growing up or with strong feelings. They then deal intensively, often painfully, with the adult world, rubbing up against the parental home, school or similar social institutions. Coming-of-age films can be dramatic, tragic, but also funny, when young people in puberty fight out family, social or individual conflicts in order to question sexuality, gender roles or other challenges, both morally and emotionally. We have put together an attractive selection of such films in which children and young people find their way into the adult world.