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Coming of Age (2015)

Coming of Age poster
Directed by
Teboho Edkins
Genre
documentary film
Country
South Africa, Germany
Runtime
1h 03m
Rated
14
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary follows four Basotho teenagers in a village in Lesotho over two years. It shows their daily lives as they navigate growing up, school, and the pressures of becoming adults in their community.

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What happens

Coming of Age is a 2015 German-South African-Mosotho documentary drama film directed by Teboho Edkins and co-produced by Don Edkins for Steps and Teboho Edkins for Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). The film revolves around four Basotho teenagers: Lefa, Senate, Retabile and Mosaku; over the course of two years as they grow up in the village of Ha Sekake. The film made its premier in February 2015 in Germany. The film received mixed reviews from critics and screened at many film festivals. In 2015, the director won the Biberstein Gusmao Award for the Best Emerging Director at the 2015 Porto/Post/Doc. At the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Crystal Bear Award for the Generation 14plus - Best Film. In the same year, the film was nominated for the Tanit d'Or for the Documentary Feature Film Carthage Film Festival. In 2016 the film was again nominated for the EVA - Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award at the Ethnocineca. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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