Childhood

Three men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences.

The art of becoming is a poetical documentary on three unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan, Syria and Guinea, who hope for a stable future in Europe. ...

A single mother and the manager of a roadside motel do their utmost to maintain the innocence of a six-year-old girl's life.

Preteen Akira Fukushima (Yûya Yagira) and his young siblings have been abandoned by their mother, Keiko (You). Keiko, who has moved in with a new lover, ...

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, Samantha agrees to foster him on weekends.

Dalva, 12, dresses and lives like a woman. One day, away from home, she meets Jayden and Samia. A new life begins.

Natanaël is almost 7 years old, but he still can't read... When his aunt Eléonore bequeaths her library to him, he is very disappointed!

After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home, where he begins to learn the meaning of true love.

Two children are raised together as brothers but are then brutally separated.

A subtle coming of age in which, over the course of a summer, an 11-year-old girl's daily life is shattered and her childhood slowly slips away...

A young girl who goes through a difficult experience begins to see everyone's imaginary friends who have been left behind as their real-life friends have ...

When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms ...

Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and ...

Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being ...

Laure is ten years old. Laure is a tomboy. New to a new neighborhood, she makes Lisa and her gang believe that she's a boy. An act or truth? Act. Summer ...

A 10-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana and travels to DC on a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute. T.S. ...

Saul escaped the coming Shoah as a child by being sent from Vienna to Brussels by a Kindertransport. Now in 1986, he is on the road to resilience and owner ...

The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne. Sisters Suzanne and Maria have an intensely close relationship. ...

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused ...

The journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never ...

In 1970s Paris, a photographer portrays her ten-year-old daughter Violetta as a seductive Lolita.

In the meditative quiet of a small Chinese village, 12-year-old Xiaoxian experiences three deaths and two births in seven days.

When 20-year-old David's elder sister is brutally killed in an attack, he takes charge of his 7-year-old niece, Amanda.

The true story of Gavino Ledda, son of a Sardinian shepherd, who escapes his harsh existence by educating himself, despite brutal opposition from his father. The ...

When their young son is diagnosed with a brain tumor, young parents Roméo and Juliette unite in the fight for his survival. Roméo and Juliette are two ...

The Taviani brothers construct an ethereal odyssey into the Sicilian landscape, with four stories and an epilogue, it brings together all the main actors ...

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.

13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets him free. She then sets out to find her dog and save ...

Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each ...

As everyone knows, children make no difference between social classes, skin colors or religions. But then why does Corentin, Paul and Sofia's nine-year-old ...

Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more beautiful ...

A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.

A widowed metro conductor, approaching retirement, lives with his beautiful grown daughter – the object of a neighbor’s romantic interest. The man’s former ...

1943. Germany is occupying France. Fanny, 13, and her little sisters have been sent to the OSE, a foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive ...

A documentary that analyzes the modern educational system and argues that it squelches children's capacity for imagination, creativity, and independent ...

An Icelandic volcano has blocked air traffic and Thelma's parents are stuck overseas. Jean and Vincent have to take care of Thelma for now.

Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded ...

A kindergarten teacher discovers a five 5-old child's prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone. The ...

The daily adventures of a boy named Boule and his spaniel Bill. Everything begins at the SPCA. A young cocker spaniel lies dejectedly in his cage. He ...

Eight-year-old Lola Arendt disappears on an island in Scotland. Her parents, Martin and Sarah, are shattered by this terrible event and separate. Two years ...

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When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong intends to take his grandmother Sara, he devises a plan ...

A burglar in a Santa Claus costume is surprised by Victor, a young boy who believes he is the real Santa Claus...

Tommy, 11 years old, is on the road again with her eccentric parents. Her freshly out-of-jail father promises her she won’t miss the first day of the school! But ...

Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis. Situated some 200km off Italy's southern coast, Lampedusa ...

Marla is forced to abandon her carefully structured life to embark on an epic journey to find her younger brother Charlie who has disappeared into the ...

Antoine Doinel, adolescent de 12 ans délaissé par ses parents, est un élève effronté en classe. Sujet de punitions répétées, il décide de faire l'école ...

When Paddington picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, the gift is stolen. Paddington is happily ...

In her mad quest for love, 9-year-old Benni scares everyone around her with her indomitable energy.

In an imaginary world where vehicles are the citizens, one underdog cabbie attempts to become king of the road in his hometown, Gasket City. He soon discovers ...

Non retenu par un grand club anglais, un adolescent doué pour le football cache la vérité à son père afin de l'aider à se reconstruire. Le jeune Théo ...

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Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed ...

The little swift Manou grows up believing he's a seagull. Learning to fly he finds out he never will be. Shocked, he runs away from home. He meets birds ...

When Mia learns that her father wants to sell Charlie, the lion with whom she grew up, to hunters, she decides to take her to a reserve to save him. As ...

In his feature film debut, director Bahman Ghobadi portrays the life of Kurds on the Iraq-Iran border who live from smuggling because the fields are mined. ...

The night of the shooting stars, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it and the Americans are on their ...

A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag ; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him, but he is under the shrew's thumb, suicidal. Adapted ...

Rosie moves with her mother to an apartment on the other side of Brussels. She gets to know a lot of new people, including Moussa, who lives in the apartment ...

Marlene, an eccentric and unaccountable young woman, lives alone with her eight-year-old daughter. One night, after a meeting in nightclub, she decides ...

A young woman who moves to Paris experiences a disaster. Finally grown up, an accomplished woman, she believes she is safe from her own past.

A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's terminal illness. 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall), dealing with his mother's ...

Samuel parties hard in the Marseille area of France and is awoken one morning by a woman carrying a baby she claims is his...

A teen-movie documentary, Swagger carries us in the midst of the astonishing minds of eleven teenagers growing up in one of the most underprivileged neighborhood ...

Two worlds colliding for the best. The children of Phnom Penh scavenging the dump-site to survive and a recently retired couple discovering Cambodia. This ...

Jacques and Safi landed in Abidjan, where they were repatriated urgently. Charles de Gaulle Airport, April 2011. Jacques and Safi have just been urgently ...

From her castle, young Sophie can't resist the temptation of the forbidden and what she loves most of all is to get up to no-good with her cousin Paul. ...

Fifteen year old Georgiana is left to raise her 6 siblings in Bacau (Romania), since mother has to work abroad to get by. Georgiana is turning fifteen ...

The film follows children growing up in the projects, where they juggle the pressures of school and street life.

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An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning ...

The complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. Juvenile ...

Thomas, a cynical French comic artist loses consciousness while visiting his old family home - only to awaken 40 years in the past as his younger self. The ...

Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.

Presents World War II European war footage juxtaposed with words from Nazi publications, laws, announcements, directives, proclamations, war books, notices, ...

This is the intense account of a special orphanage in Addis Ababa. On their 13th birthday, the children are informed that they were born with HIV.

A celebration of every boy's dream to be on his own, to go on a fun escape with his best pals, with a touch of Stand by Me and Mark Twain.

A journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division enters an affair with one of her subjects. The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's ...

Romain is a 'Moon child' – afflicted since birth with a rare genetic disease that means any exposure to sunlight will result in cancers. Abandoned by his ...

Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, ...

The meeting of two extraordinary artistic souls on the streets of New York could be just what they are looking for.

It's the weekend of Saint-Nicholas. On the forest path wich leads them home, Cécile suddenly leaves her little brother Thomas so she can hide something ...

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches ...

One Christmas day. Three individuals in trouble. In one way or another, all of them have to face down their conscience and answer the real questions.

Following a car crash, Sophie lies in a coma. Her husband, Cédric, tries to bring her back to consciousness by playing a slew of videos shot on a cell ...

Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer ...

In Belgium, France and in most Europe countries, giving birth has to be handed by specialists and has to take place in a hospital. Can we escape there ...

A couple grapples with the unresolved disappearance of their teenage daughter five years earlier.

Jonathan, age seven, prepares his suitcase. Tomorrow he leaves for an educational schooltrip to the countryside with his school.

Lionel is 17 years old. Like every teenager, he wears big jeans, crazy hair and spends much of his time killing virtual people on his T.V. Beaten by his ...

Alex and Yuni, a young couple, go to a mountain cabin where the young woman used to spend her holidays when she was a child. The story of a place imbued ...

Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim ...

Alice, having trouble with her self image, tries to hide her weight and eating disorder from her school and parents.

1969. Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig farm in a small town with her four other siblings and another on the way. She is curious and determined to understand ...