Growing Up

Through school, college and after, a young woman’s search for the perfect man runs up against her parents, social expectation and her own restless mind.

In 1987 Tokyo, a sensitive 11-year-old moves between a terminally ill father, an overstretched mother and adults absorbed in their own struggles.

A restless young Tokyo beautician moves unpredictably through work, lovers, friends and family.

At a strict boarding school in the Himalayas, a 16-year-old discovers desire under the watch of a mother who was denied her own coming of age.

Days before her Olympic tryouts, a young gymnast discovers she is pregnant.

A vocational high school senior starts field training at a subcontractor, hoping it will settle his future, and finds himself siding with the non-contract staff.

A martial artist in training recruits her friends to stop her older sister’s wedding, in the name of independence and sisterhood.

A student at an all-girls school begins puberty and develops unusual symptoms, along with a mysterious and visceral power.

A grieving teenage delinquent forms an unlikely friendship with a magician who gives her a new way through anger and loss.

At a highly competitive San Francisco high school, seniors measure themselves against one another as college decisions approach.

A bright Indonesian student wants to continue her education while repeated marriage proposals narrow the future others imagine for her.

A teenager follows her idol home and finds a frightening reality behind the image she believed in.

A boy on the Mongolian steppe dreams of a talent-show stage, until gold mining companies arrive on his family’s land.

In rural Assam, a teenager moves through friendship, first love and loss while trying to understand who she wants to become.

In 1994 Seoul, a 14-year-old searches for tenderness beyond a home and school that rarely make space for her.

Two friends in their final year of high school rehearse a duet whose story begins to mirror the separation ahead of them.

A teenager who crosses the Hong Kong–Shenzhen border each day begins smuggling phones to pay for a trip with her best friend.

Bullied at school and left largely to herself, a girl starts reselling confiscated phones in a city unsettled by a rape-murder investigation.

A ten-year-old girl in rural Assam dreams of owning a guitar and starting a band, despite the limits set around her.

A bullied girl finds a friend over summer, then watches the pressures of the school year begin to pull them apart.

Over four years, teenage wrestler and judoka Teshya Alo pursues world titles while her family sustains the cost of the dream.

A student accused of murder turns on the elite classmates whose ruthless competition has transformed their school.

After leaving prison, a 21-year-old saves enough money to move somewhere no one knows her, then begins the cycle again.

Five friends leave school and begin to drift apart as work, distance and unequal prospects pull their lives in different directions.

A troubled Brooklyn teenager channels her aggression into boxing training, keeping it secret from her father.