Author Sandra Cisneros, who penned standout coming-of-age novel "The House on Mango Street," speaks at the 2024 National Book Festival at The Walter E. Washington Convention Center on August 24, 2024.

It’s funny how all discussion of the Mafia these days references The Sopranos — that distinctive accent; Carmela’s American-Italian cooking with its thick red sauces; the racism and homophobia; the ...

French animation powerhouse Miyu Productions has teamed with Tokyo-based upstart Nothing New to co-produce “We Are Aliens,” a coming-of-age tale now in development, and slated for completion by March ...

Juan Pablo Di Pace and Andrés Pepe Estrada direct an all-too-earnest story about teenage longing set in the picturesque town of Duino. “Before We Forget” opens with a camera being held by a filmmaker ...

Coming-of-age movies are a dime a dozen, but one of the best quietly dropped nine years ago and starred a familiar face from ...

At this point in the evolution of LGBTQ+ cinema, the “queer coming-of-age” story has become a sub-genre all its own with its own set of familiar tropes and beats. So it’s especially exciting when a ...

Treating teenage growing pains with a sensitivity that frequently trips into singer-songwriter-ish mushiness, Tiger Eyes nonetheless stands as a respectable first cinematic adaptation of a Judy Blume ...

Through the lens of “Spring Awakening,” the 2006 musical that spoke to a generation, can be seen both late-19th-century Germany and the America of today. Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s rock musical ...

Coming-of-age films remind us that growth rarely happens all at once. They capture the quiet shifts and emotional turning points that define adolescence and young adulthood, often through honest ...

The autobiographical film is always an attempt to embalm and embrace what’s long past. To look back and reshape one’s own memories with the help of a camera is to wrestle not just with what happened ...