Childhood Movies

A decade spanning story of love, loss, and memory, witnessed through the lens of a working-class family.

The lives of two boys. Life is innocent when you're young, then age begins to complicate everything.

Inspired by the aesthetics of live-staged performances, "Waiting Room" offers a unique artistic portrayal of handling one's childhood and growing up.

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.

The now grown up Leoš remembers his childhood in communist Czechoslovakia of the 1970ies, his escape to Austria and first impressions in this...

An intimate portrait of Eric Carle, creator of more than 70 books for children including the best-selling "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". At 82, Eric...

A short documentary on a grandson returning home to visit his aging grandmother who was crying to see him on the phone.

Adelina, going for the first time to a museum, discovers her artistic side.

When his older brother forgets a little orange stick, seven-year-old Noah decides to face the vast world and bring it back to him. A strange journey...

In the wake of a messy divorce, 11-year-old Peter moves with his mother to a new town. Coming to terms with his new life, Peter finds comfort playing...

Madrid is the meeting point of eleven stories of people in physical and spiritual transit. Eleven honest and direct stories, young and necessary as...

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...

Three short films about abandoned children, left to the omnipotence of silence, of the eye and of the hand but also of abysmal loneliness

Cédric is a child like millions of others. The only difference is that the little boy is seriously ill and must spend six months in a...

It was summer on the shores of Lake Geneva. Alice was on vacation at the campsite with her mother, she was bored. One day by chance, she met Zack...

A girl disappears without a trace while playing hide and seek with her friend. The friend is asked to explain how it happened, but the adults around...

"Tungkung Langit" is a title that refers to the god in the Panay epic whose tears become rain, but in the short film, two young children do not weep...