coming of age - The Film Verdict

78 Days

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 1, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |

Using the aesthetics of home video, with 78 Days Emilija Gasic crafts a poignant coming-of-age drama set amidst the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO.

Firedream

Posted by Lucy Virgen | Sep 7, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023 |

Firedream offers lessons of passionate honesty in work made with love. and creativity even with some shortcomings.

Gasoline Rainbow

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 7, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023 |

The freewheeling independence of the open road is given a Gen-Z spin in the Ross Brothers’ kinetic and affecting hybrid documentary, Gasoline Rainbow.

Sea Salt

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 5, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023, Verdict Shorts |

The inconsistencies of adolescence are the challenges of burgeoning womanhood are central to Leila Basma’s knotty and intoxicating coming-of-age short, Sea Salt.

An Endless Sunday

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 1, 2023 | Festivals, Toronto 2023, VENICE 2023 |

Dazzling camerawork and an exceptional trio of teenage actors dangle from a weak narrative thread in Alain Parroni’s intense first feature about underprivileged kids growing up without a future.

Tag: coming of age

78 Days

Firedream

Gasoline Rainbow

Sea Salt

An Endless Sunday