Childhood Movies

Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rath...

Documentary about the subculture of child beauty pageants (usually restricted to girls no older than 5),showing the lengths to which some parents wil...

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 Miria,...

When Nova reminisces on her childlike spirit through the reminder of Charlie, a childhood friend, she faces the uncomfortable truth that change is ine...

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...

Young Maxime’s mother starts worrying about him when his 2nd grade teacher declares him “abnormal”. After a distressing visit to the hospital, she dec...

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 th...

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 po...

Erik lives by night. He works in a nightclub and occasionally dresses up as a woman to rob rich clients. One day Erik's father arrives uninvited. It's...

Alone in the middle of the forest, Solal, eleven years old, equipped with a magnetic field detector, is looking for his missing mother, convinced 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

Pegah talks about Gholam, a man who’s not like her father, mother, uncles, or aunts, even though he’s always present at family gatherings. Gholam film...

Ana, a 7 year old girl, tries to understand and be a part her grandfathers funeral despite her mothers efforts to keep her away.

Having suffered incest from her father from the age of eight to the age of twelve, at forty-five, Beatrice filmed, with two cameras, a long meeting wi...

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 arrangi...

While cleaning her childhood home, a girl comes across a mysterious box that strangely communicates with her, appearing to know her more than expected...

A father's takes his estranged son on a fishing trip as a way of bonding, but when the car breaks down he realises it's not the only thing that needs...

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this documentary highlights the many comp...

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 in...