Theme: Coming of Age Stories

Can’t Be Heaven (1998)

31st December 199830th August 2018

Coming of Age/Ghostly Saxophonist

Director: Richard Friedman

Actors: Diane Ladd, Ralph Macchio, Bryan Burke, Michelle Trachtenberg, …

Cashback (2006)

31st December 200630th August 2018

Youth Can Freeze Time

Director: Sean Ellis

Actors: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Stuart Goodwin, Shaun Evans, …

The Divine Ryans (1999)

15th October 201430th August 2018

Family Saga/Father’s Ghost/Surreal Dreams

Director: Stephen Reynolds

Actors: Pete Postlethwaite, Wendel Meldrum, Robert Joy, Jordan Harvey, …

E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

16th December 200111th February 2019

Cute Alien

Director: Steven Spielberg

Actors: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, …

Earth to Echo (2014)

4th July 201430th August 2018

Kids Discover Cute Alien

Director: Dave Green

Actors: Teo Halm, Brian Astro Bradley, Reese Hartwig, Ella Wahlestedt, …

Eve’s Bayou (1997)

20th June 201030th August 2018

Backwater Louisiana Childhood/Voodoo

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Actors: Lynn Whitfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Debbi Morgan, …

Explorers (1985)

18th January 201030th August 2018

Teenagers Build Spaceship

Director: Joe Dante

Actors: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Dick Miller, …

The Fields (2011)

5th May 201430th August 2018

Coming of Age Story/Backwoods Happenings

Director: Tom Mattera, David Mazzoni

Actors: Joshua Ormond, Bev Appleton, Tom McCarthy, Tara Reid, …

Frankenstein and Me (1996)

25th August 201330th August 2018

Genre Fan Childhood

Director: Robert Tinnell

Actors: Jamieson Boulanger, Burt Reynolds, Myriam Cyr, Ricky Mabe, …

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

29th September 200115th February 2019

Clairvoyance/Stephen King Adaptation

Director: Scott Hicks

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boreem, …

Heavy Traffic (1973)

21st January 201530th August 2018

Adult Animation/Growing Up in Brooklyn

Director: Ralph Bakshi

Actors: Joseph Kauffmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank De Kova, Terri Haven, …

How I Live Now (2013)

15th November 201330th August 2018

England Invaded/Outbreak of Nuclear War

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird, …

I Kill Giants (2017)

1st April 201821st September 2018

Girl Believes in Giants

Director: Anders Walter

Actors: Madison Wolfe, Zoe Saldana, Sydney Wade, Imogen Poots, …

It (2017)

4th November 20172nd February 2019

Stephen King Adaptation/Killer Clown Monster

Director: Andy Muschietti

Actors: Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Jake Dylan Grazer, …

It (1990)

10th June 20162nd February 2019

Stephen King Adaptation/Killer Clown Monster

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace

Actors: Tim Curry, John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Annette O'Toole, …

Lady in White (1988)

2nd January 199930th August 2018

Ghost Story

Director: Frank LaLoggia

Actors: Lukas Haas, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson, Alex Rocco, …

Matinee (1993)

4th December 199930th August 2018

B-Movie Homage/Genre Fandom Childhood

Director: Joe Dante

Actors: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, …

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

2nd January 20034th November 2018

Anime/Children Befriend Mysterious Creature

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

8th February 200330th August 2018

Time Travel/Housewife Revisists Her Youth

Director: Francis Coppola

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage, Barry Miller, Kevin J. Connor

Radio Flyer (1992)

3rd January 199930th August 2018

Childhood Abuse/Fantasy of Flight

Director: Richard Donner

Actors: Elijah Wood, Lorraine Bracco, Joseph Mazzello, Adam Baldwin, …

Red Dawn (1984)

2nd February 200230th August 2018

Communist Invasion of the USA

Director: John Milius

Actors: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Powers Boothe, …

Red Dawn (2012)

21st November 201230th August 2018

North Korean Invasion of the USA

Director: Dan Bradley

Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki, …

The Scarecrow (1982)

19th July 201330th August 2018

New Zealand Gothic

Director: Sam Pillsbury

Actors: John Carradine, Tracy Mann, Jonathan Smith, Daniel McLaren, …

Slash (2016)

21st April 201730th August 2018

The World of Slash Fandom

Director: Clay Liford

Actors: Michael Johnston, Hannah Marks, Michael Ian Black, Peter Vack, …

The Spirit of the Beehive (1974)

2nd June 201530th August 2018

Spanish Childhood/Ghost of the Frankenstein Monster

Director: Victor Erice

Actors: Ana Torent, Isabel Telleria, Fernan Gomez, Tersea Gimpera, …

Star Wars (1977)

16th December 20091st February 2019

Space Opera

Director: George Lucas

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, …

Super 8 (2011)

16th June 201126th December 2018

Alien Monster/1980s Coming of Age Tale

Director: J.J. Abrams

Actors: Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Riley Griffiths, …

Three Wishes (1995)

20th February 201230th August 2018

1950s Coming of Age Tale/Mysterious Stranger

Director: Martha Coolidge

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy, …

Tomorrow When the War Began (2010)

26th March 201130th August 2018

Australia Invaded/Teenagers Fight Back

Director: Stuart Beattie

Actors: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Colin Friels, Chris Pang, …

The Tree of Life (2011)

4th June 20114th February 2019

Lost American Childhood/The Evolution of Life on Earth

Director: Terrence Malick

Actors: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, …

Village of Dreams (1996)

23rd June 201030th August 2018

Mischievous Twins’ Childhood/Magical Realism

Director: Yoichi Higashi

Actors: Keigo Matsuyama, Shogo Matsuyama, Mieko Harada, Komatsu Hosei, …

When Marnie Was There (2014)

14th June 201530th August 2018

Anime/Ghost Story

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi