Movies: Puberty

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the subject of girls and how they reach adulthood and readiness for the 'important job of motherhood....

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....

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

A boy is resentful of his mother's budding romance with the best friend of her late husband, and is torn and confused about his emerging feelings for Toni, a young girl in his neighborhood. His fascination with an antique Oriental knife leads him to ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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......

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....

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…...

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....

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...

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....

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

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

Mio blir som barn skickad till Sverige för att tjäna ihop pengar till sin familj i Thailand. Men det går inte som föräldrarna planerat. Under tre år följer regissör Jonas Embring Mio och hans gäng på Henriksdalsberget utanför Stockholm. De lever i en...

At puberty, two wooden puppets will have to bear the weight of gender strict traditional education....

Black and white animation based on Munch's art of work. The image changes gradually and resembles at one point The Scream....

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