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It is a privilege to call a place home—a place where one can feel safe, but most importantly, where one can feel a sense of belongingness amidst people they know and love. Minhal Baig’s meditative social drama We Grown Now examines the varied connotations of this belongingness against the backdrop of the Cabrini-Green public housing project in Chicago during the 1990s, through the eyes of the youngest members of two African-American families. As the movie revolves around the coming-of-age story of friends Malik and Eric, their experience of growing up in a neglected, marginalized, and exploited neighborhood and the effort they make to save their dreams while trying to enjoy whatever life has to offer is vividly captured. Hailing from a Pakistani immigrant family herself, director Minhal Baig was able to touch the core of the living experience of the black community during a troubling period of time—in a sense,...