Movies: Puberty

A group of late 19th century German teenagers – silenced and controlled by a censorious society – discover a new world of feeling and freedom outside the classroom, with beautiful and devastating consequences....

The Disappearing Male is about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system. The last few decades have seen steady and dramatic increases in the incidence of boys ...

During a fencing camp thirteen-year old Puck struggles to feel connected to her rapidly changing body....

13-year old Jimmy has a lot of questions about his changing body. His often hilarious search for answers uncovers the facts about male sexual development, and raises important issues about peer pressure and readiness to date....

A basic sex education film designed for young engaged couples....

Year 1973, Finland, Southern Ostrobothnia. The long-awaited child is named Anselmi. The mother disappears in a snowstorm on the evening of the baptism. She is never found. The father raises the child alone. 15 years later, Anselmi falls in love for t...

Franz Holl, 6 years old, is sent off by his mother and stepfather to live on his father's farm. His father turns out to be a mischievous man who won't grant him any chance in life. The roles are played by amateur actors from Carinthia....

A film about three teenagers - Klara, Mina and Tanutscha - from the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. The trio have known each other since Kindergarten and have plenty in common. The three 15-year-olds are the best of friends; they are spending the summe...

A coming of age story about two great friends during the school years whose friendship is truly tested when one of the boys start to develop different feelings for the other. At first, it seems Philippe and Claude are just experimenting new sensation...

A group of adolescents from the same school, although of different social classes, intervene between them. Oscar falls in love with Sandra until Diego seduces her and makes her pregnant......

No-one wants to play football with Gaby now that she has breasts. Like every other year, the 13-year-old is spending the summer with her dad on a small island off the Canadian coast – and she is not about to pretend that she’s suddenly a different pe...

Real Life, Music, Television is a trilogy of music videos which examine the hyper-self-consciousness of adolescents. The images from "Performance" are derived from found footage of an 8th grade talent show and are combined with a list of gender-speci...

Lou has a deformity that appears to delay puberty. Between her parents, her friends, and the eruption of "pirates of the flesh", Lou is determined to become a "real girl", in vain. So Lou will end up freeing himself from human genres…...

Janka is on the verge of puberty. She is trying to retain her childish innocence for as long as possible. But she can’t escape the inevitable changes every girl has to undergo....

At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair....

The normally active Ji-su is drowsy in class today. After all, when Ji-su stood in the back of the classroom, lower abdomen aches and heart becomes stuffy. In the sun-filled classroom, pink flowers bloom in pots near window....

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A teenage girl goes through a bizarre transformation after she gets her first period....

In 2010, director Michiel van Erp started filming a group of children in Utrecht. He kept filming them till 2018, the year they turned 18. The film portrays those moments which were crucial for the development and personal growth of the kids....

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as goths, skinheads, anti-skins, punks and neo-Nazis were dismissed as social deviations promoted by we...