Film-Forward

Teen

Julie Keeps Quiet

A sensitive psychological drama about a rising tennis star facing her demons, namely her suspended coach.

Holy Cow

This naturalistic coming-of-age movie moves with the urgency of someone forced to grow up fast.

Young Hearts

A 14-year-old boy’s journey of discovering love and grappling with self-acceptance.

100,000,000,000,000, When the Phone Rang, Windless | First Look 2025

The festival takes viewers to glitzy, gaudy Monaco; the former Yugoslavia; and a rapidly changing Bulgarian village.

Dìdi

Sharply observed and specific details make this a fun and moving coming-of-age film.

Backspot

Backspot immersing viewers in rough workouts, reveling in the punishment today’s high school cheerleaders take.

Gasoline Rainbow

A group of recent high school grads are determined to have one last hurrah, so they pack themselves into a battered van and head for the Pacific Coast.

How to Have Sex

At first, the film conjures Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers as it revels in the shallow inanity of carousing drunk teens. But wait for its second half.

Story Ave

A mentorship-based coming-of-age film with a well-known ancestry (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester, Stand and Deliver).