Childhood Movies

Ana, a 7 year old girl, tries to understand and be a part her grandfathers funeral despite her mothers efforts to keep her away.

This short film tells the story of a childhood, of a friendship and of growing up. A young man returns to the village where he grew up and discovers...

Maggie's tightly wound life unravels when she gets a call that her estranged sister is in deep trouble. Their reunion reveals a startling diagnosis...

Two nieces, Tilda and Harriët, meet again after a long time. But now, a rat named Erebos has come between them.

A man attending a funeral in his hometown comes face-to-face with his past when he is confronted with memories of mistrust, adultery, abuse, and a...

On a night of reckoning, an immigrant teen confronts her mother’s fury—and finds a mirror of her own fragility

Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting....

With a sense of strange timelessness, this fable immerses us in the daily life of a child fascinated by the elusive rays of the sun that stir life on...

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

A reflection on love and identity with detours towards magical realism, which winks at the oral tradition of coastal populations and introduces us to...

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

A young man likes spending time in the shower, too much according to his girlfriend. She thinks he is too slow and throws him out of her place. Armed...

One hot summer afternoon, two boys try to earn the cash for a movie in this beautiful evocation of the landscape of childhood.

Having suffered incest from her father from the age of eight to the age of twelve, at forty-five, Beatrice filmed, with two cameras, a long meeting...

After her addicted husband sells their 6-year-old daughter, a mother takes matters into her own hands and sets off on a desperate journey to save her...

A group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung.

"Golds" follows Mercy, a young boy who lives in a poor neighborhood with his ill mom who can not afford the medical attention she needs. Mercy comes...

In a country where being transgender still carries risk, Mexican mothers and their children embark on an intimate journey toward understanding. Amid...

A story of homecoming from late 1970s, when 10 year old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral....