Childhood Movies

Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 80 years after his world came crashing down.

Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979,...

Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.

At age ten, Paolo asks his mother he wants to meet his father, an unknown soccer player who retired early due to an injury. The boy does not know it,...

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing...

Twenty-one-year-old Julia had to leave her daughters under the care of a children's shelter house. Five years later, Julia keeps fighting to rebuild...

From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a...

A young girl grows up in the company of her imaginary friend, a silent and friendly monster. As she matures and experiences all the joy and tragedy...

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

Luisito, an 8-year-old boy, experiences the grief that has been denied to him when his mother decides to get rid of his late father's clothes.

Pepito The child misbehaves because his stepfather is scolding. Buy a sauceboat but when his cat rubs it a genie appears. The child understands that...

Staffan returns to Svalöv, his childhood town. The visit becomes an odyssey of his memories with his friends Maria and Janne when they grew up...

This is a film which challenges our notions of child labor. It peeks into a world where the concept of childhood as we know it has no meaning, where...

Honour West and Joan Camuglia-May share their experiences in this upbeat roller-skating documentary.

Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father...

A couple moves to Patagonia escaping from the impositions of modern capitalist society. At first, the place, the people, the life seems to be what...

Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to...

A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal...