Coming of Age (2015 film)

2015 German-South African documentary drama film

Coming of Age

Directed by| Teboho Edkins
Written by| Teboho Edkins
Produced by| Teboho Edkins
Don Edkins
Cinematography| Samuel Lahu
Edited by| Rune Schweitzer
Music by| Retabile Putsoane

Production
companies

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Steps International

Distributed by| MAGNETFILM GmbH

Release date

* 28 February 2015 (2015-02-28)

(Germany)

Running time

| 63 minutes
Countries| South Africa
Germany
Lesotho
Language| Sotho

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).[1][2] 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.[3][4][5]

The film made its premier in February 2015 in Germany. The film received mixed reviews from critics and screened at many film festivals.[6][7] In 2015, the director won the Biberstein Gusmao Award for the Best Emerging Director at the 2015 Porto/Post/Doc.[8] 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.[9]

## References

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1. ^ www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam. "Coming of Age: IDFA". Retrieved 10 October 2021.
2. ^ "Coming of Age: EZEF". www.ezef.de. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
3. ^ "COMING OF AGE - Films - home". german-documentaries.de. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
4. ^ "Coming of Age". DFFB. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
5. ^ "Coming of Age - Tënk". Retrieved 10 October 2021.
6. ^ Balázs, Imre, Loránd (12 October 2018). "Kind of Unexpected". Doc.Kiez. Retrieved 10 October 2021.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
7. ^ "Coming of Age ()". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
8. ^ "Zhao Liang's Behemoth wins at Porto/Post/Doc". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
9. ^ "Coming of Age - accolades". imdb.com. Retrieved 10 October 2021. [unreliable source?]

## External links

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* Coming of Age at IMDb

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