Childhood Movies

How do you become who you are? Through the slights one experiences, believes freelance journalist and author Dirk Gieselmann. One late evening, he is...

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire...

Lily, a little girl, prepares a party for her father while she is in the care of her cousin Teo, who completes her idea of family.

Ángel, a small 5-year-old, watches as her mother takes care of her grandmother who is sick with terminal cancer. As the relationships around...

Roger (8) and Jonatan (12) spend a sunny afternoon flying kites, immersed in the innocence of childhood. Their simple joy is suddenly disrupted by...

At her young age, Juana has two great responsibilities: preventing her older sister from fleeing the house and passing on the secret of making bricks...

Storm Boy lives a lonely life with his reclusive father on a desolate coastline, but when he forms a close bond with a pelican, Mr. Percival, his...

Bernardo owns a furniture industry. In his sixties, he lives alone. After his father's death, he has to count to ten everynight to fall asleep. Time...

After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget...

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...

Experiencing extreme sleep deprivation for months, a young man tape-records his memories for preservation against sinister, clandestine watchers.

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have...

7-year-old Sasha has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for...

Amid the relentless pressure of looming deadlines, Nala (25), an illustrator, finds herself trapped in an art block that leaves her unable to...

A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.

An Iranian boy moves to Luxembourg and forms a friendship with a girl with whom he has no language in common.

Little kids, big dreams and smashingly good music – Dixieland follows the amazing progress of four members of a Ukrainian children’s...

A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a...

Carina is 8 and likes rock & roll. Her life changes completely when she believes that her new teacher is the same woman she saw in a her...

For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his...