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There’s a sense of magic about Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now,” a low-budget miracle of a movie that provides a sense of hope amidst a currently bleak cinematic landscape.

Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” It’s an evocative memory piece, wistful and honest, and a different kind of

Two boys come of age in the Cabrini-Green housing project

Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” The film, in select theaters Friday and expanding April 26, stars first-time actors

Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.

Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” The film, in select theaters Friday and expanding April 26, stars first-time actors

Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.”

Writer-director Minhal Baig’s sophomore feature is a tribute to the residents of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood

Writer-director Minhal Baig mounts a sensitively directed drama about life in Chicago's Cabrini-Green, where pride and violence both found a foothold.

Where John Adams illuminated one of American history’s more self-serious advocates for liberty and equality, Franklin has a bit of fractured fun with its more libertine protagonist.