Coming of Age

The Fragile King

By Jordan Bond | March 2024

Writer and director Tristan Holmes’s dramatic feature The Fragile King uses the South African desert as its backdrop. The film is about Michael (Alex…

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Writer and director Tristan Holmes's dramatic feature The Fragile King uses the South African desert as its backdrop. The film is about Michael (Alex de...

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Yuni is dedicated to poet Sapardi Djoko Damono. Co-writer/director Kamila Andini and co-writer Prima Rusdi use his poem The Rain In June as the thematic...

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Written and directed by Mariya Somova, I Want To Live On Mars is a coming-of-age teen drama. However, the narrative thrust is not typical of the genre....

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I had the privilege to interview directors Raul Sanchez and Pasal Gutierrez, discussing their film Shut Up & Fish. They share their experiences from...

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The French Canadian coming-of-age animated feature, When Adam Changes (Adam Change Lentement), written and directed by Joel Vaudreuil, paints a bullseye...

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NOW ON NETFLIX! Only in Narnia will you find a boy more devoted to a white witch than the Stevie Nicks-loving Benny (Keir Tallman) in indigenous...

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AWARD THIS! 2023 NOMINEE! Every young person faces a crossroads in their life. They must choose between a comfortable go-nowhere life or making something...

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People get into all sorts of silly situations in life. Most of these you would think could never happen in a film or those that do make it to the large...

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How would you spend that final year if you were given a year to live? Living for yourself or living for others? This question is explored in Quentin Lee's...

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No adolescent can escape the draw of peer pressure. From the directing duo Cliqua, Shut Up & Fish is the coming-of-age tale of Aiden and his...

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