Coming of Age
Explore our collection of classic and contemporary films about the passage from childhood to adulthood. From the streetwise kids of modern Ukraine to the rebellious teens of perestroika, these films combine the personal and the political to powerful effect.
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Movie + 1 extraTough Kids
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Dinara Asanova • 1983 • USSR/Russia
A former athlete leads a sports summer camp for troubled teens in this drama from Dinara Asanova. Famed for her use of improvisation, Asanova uses this chronicle of a summer to investigate the paradoxical vulnerability of these supposedly “tough” o...