KINO presents: Coming of Age
Classic Coming of Age Special

KINO presents: Coming of Age

Starting June 29th, we invite you for a summer of cinematic discovery. For three months, we will screen twenty-two coming-of-age films, from twelve different countries. The universal themes of growing up – finding your place in the world, falling in love, navigating the educational system, making and losing friends, dealing with foes and family – resonate with us all.

Recognizing these shared experiences makes us appreciate and understand one another. We’re excited to screen a large variety of films, ranging from the whimsically sweet to the downright dire, but every feature retains that universal theme of innocence lost and braving the world. Some of these features are better known than others and we’d love you to get to get acquainted with all of them.

Children of Heaven (1997)
Coming of Age Special

Children of Heaven (1997)

Zohre’s shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

  • Alle leeftijden
Moonlight (2016)
Coming of Age Special

Moonlight (2016)

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

  • Kijkwijzer 12
This Is England (2006)
Coming of Age Special

This Is England (2006)

A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
  • Geweld
  • Groftaalgebruik
Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Coming of Age Special

Linda Linda Linda (2005)

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs for the festival’s rock concert.

  • Kijkwijzer 12
Nobody Knows (2004)
Coming of Age Special

Nobody Knows (2004)

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

  • Kijkwijzer 12
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Coming of Age Special

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.

  • Kijkwijzer 12
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
Coming of Age Special

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi’s love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
Take Care of My Cat (2001)
Coming of Age Special

Take Care of My Cat (2001)

When one girl from five close school friends moves to Seoul after school is over, the other four try and deal with the loss of her moving and them drifting apart.

  • Kijkwijzer 12
Fat Girl (2001)
Coming of Age Special

Fat Girl (2001)

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
The Long Day Closes (1992) – a 35mm presentation
a 35mm presentation Coming of Age Special

The Long Day Closes (1992) – a 35mm presentation

Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.

  • Kijkwijzer 12
Typhoon Club (1985)
Coming of Age Special

Typhoon Club (1985)

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

My Life As a Dog (1985)
Coming of Age Special

My Life As a Dog (1985)

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

  • Alle leeftijden
Der Fan (1982)
Coming of Age Special

Der Fan (1982)

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
Pixote (1980)
Coming of Age Special

Pixote (1980)

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

Peppermint Soda (1977)
Coming of Age Special

Peppermint Soda (1977)

In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They’re just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.

  • Kijkwijzer 12
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Coming of Age Special

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale’s 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
American Graffiti (1973)
Coming of Age Special

American Graffiti (1973)

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

  • Kijkwijzer 12
Walkabout (1971)
Coming of Age Special

Walkabout (1971)

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone.

Il Posto (1961)
Coming of Age Special

Il Posto (1961)

With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A lack of options forces him to take a position as a messenger at a big company, where he hopes to receive a promotion soon. There, Domenico meets Antonietta, a young woman in a similar situation as himself.

  • Alle leeftijden
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Coming of Age Special

Call Me By Your Name (2017)

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father’s research assistant.

  • Kijkwijzer 12
  • Groftaalgebruik
  • Seks
The Dreamers (2003)
Coming of Age Special

The Dreamers (2003)

In May 1968, the student riots in Paris only exacerbate the isolation felt by three youths: an American exchange student named Matthew and twins Théo and Isabelle. Having bonded over their mutual love of cinema, Matthew is fascinated by the sense of intimacy shared by Isabelle and Theo, who were born conjoined. When the twins’ bohemian parents go away for a month, they ask Matthew to stay at their place, and the three lose themselves in fantasy.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
  • Seks

Specials

5 Films by Jacques Demy
Classic Jacques Demy Special

5 Films by Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy creëerde een uniek universum waarin kleur, muziek en romantiek samenkomen. Zijn films combineren de magie van Hollywoodmusicals met ontroerende verhalen over liefde, toeval en afscheid.

Apocalypse Now: Final Cut & Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & Apocalypse now
10 year anniversary Special

Apocalypse Now: Final Cut & Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & Apocalypse now

This essential film was a cinematic experience in forming our perception of film as an art from and in 2019 we had the opportunity as a cinema to contribute in a small way to its monumental legacy.

Coco (2017) + kinderworkshop La Costumería
10 year anniversary Kids Special

Coco (2017) + kinderworkshop La Costumería

PrachtPixar waarin de Mexicaanse dodencultuur sprankelend leven komt. Na afloop een gratis kinderworkshop bloemenkronen en -maskers maken met onze buurman La Costumería.