Childhood Movies

In 2010, director Michiel van Erp started filming a group of children in Utrecht. He kept filming them till 2018, the year they turned 18. The film...

Memo is a nine-year-old boy who lives in Turkey with his mother and little sister, while his father works in a Netherlands seaport. When war looms...

Children play amidst cycles of thunder and violence.

A lonely 40-year-old man sits on the balcony of a Finnish apartment building. Joonas Berghäll has learned that he will die in 14 years’...

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...

Mads' father’s company is too small for a proper Christmas tree party, so Mads decides to arrange his own for himself and his best friend. But...

For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study "what grows back” after an...

In deep introspection, a Black actor sought for some answer when he found his childhood computer, he explores a video game he started creating when...

Julia is a child living in a Mexican town trapped in the war against drug trafficking. After waiting for days for his father’s return she meets...

Puberty, sibling rivalry, and school crushes make up the small world that 10-year-old Vicky lives in. But the memories of birthday cakes and carefree...

Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a...

If the wind spoke the language of children, what would its voice be? The film tells the story of migrating children that have found refuge from war...

Can you catch a friend in a trap? Vitello is bored, he has no one to play with. His mother tells him to go outside and look for a new friend. He...

A new documentary film about the nature of play, risk and hazard, set in a European adventure playground. Here, children climb trees, light fires and...

A young orphan wakes up after wetting his bedsheet. Living under the supervision of nuns, he'll spend night and day attempting to amend his "mistake".

A poetic and nightmarish dive into the deranged mind of a psychotic little girl. Nina is 9 years old but isn’t like other little girls. Nina...

An Israeli director currently living in Berlin returns to Israel to meet some of her friends from primary school. She learns what has been happening...

Small great events of a family summer in the countryside.

The true story of a young man's battle with bone cancer and his family's fight to carry him through. Written and Directed by the older brother of the...

A reflection about growing up