coming of age

This rousing period tale won awards at Edinburgh and Manchester’s international film festivals for good reason.

You’ll need to touch grass after seeing Jane Schoenbrun’s disturbing tale of online dysphoria and loneliness.

Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton takes to cinema in this visually sumptuous story of surviving trauma.

Older viewers might clutch their pearls at the sex, drugs, and modern vulgarities of Dolly Alderton’s clever show.

A Brooklyn teen gets sent down under in this sunny coming-of-age story, starring US talent Sky Katz.

They might be painful, but those awkward years make for some incredible cinema moments.

Four very different young women with very different sex drives are roommates at a Vermont college campus.

Your little teen heart is about to be broken all over again, by a new generation of Aussie rebels.

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son Cooper stars in this tribute to movies, romance, and the San Fernando Valley.

Set on a US military base in Italy, this coming-of-age drama definitely bears traces of Call Me By Your Name.

For a whole generation of Australians, this was a truly formative film.

Superbad is the obvious touchstone here, and Bilched makes no bones about that.

What themes do films and TV shows about school share, and how are Australian stories different?

A film for the 13-year-old girl inside all of us.