Childhood Movies

The film recounts the incredible research conducted by François Cartault, a pediatrician and geneticist on the island of Réunion....

A Canadian mother travels to Florida with her 4 year-old daughter to take part in a mini-miss contest. Getting ready to compete becomes a...

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...

In a nursing home, a young man visits his grandmother. As she constantly repeats that she wants to go home, his grandson visits her now empty...

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

A coming-of-age story of a girl wanting her mother's approval and validation in Burbank, CA.

This is a story about women who are fighters, tenacious, hopeful, active women…who were capable of lifting, from nothingness, in the harshest...

1917, Yakutia. 9-year-old Mikita is growing up beyond his years, as he, along with adults, learns the difficult life of a Yakut cattle breeder, where...

When her 4-year-old asks what the stones in a Victorian cemetery are for, a young mother stumbles toward answers she didn’t know she had.

What if children were the most overlooked figures of Prehistory? Through the latest archaeological discoveries, and an investigation into a teenager...

Edwin and Luigi, two best friends who are 9 years old and come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, are forced to part ways after learning that...

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

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

Seven-year-old Chloé imitates her big brother Théo doing tai chi on a snowy plain. A group of starlings are watching.

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

Inal, Nia, Aska, Yanti, Attar, and Ondeng struggled to get education in a free school built by the teacher. Inal, who is blind and Ondeng, who has...

Kati, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is suffering from an incurable illness. She must go through steps of happiness and sorrow, bonding and...

In a remote village in Kyrgyzstan, the paths of an immigrant filmmaker from Belarus and a spirited ten-year-old local girl intersect, unfolding an...