Difficult Childhood Movies

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her...

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a...

When former child star Aaron Schwartz (Mighty Ducks, Heavyweights) returned to the acting world as an adult, he found himself always being asked this...

Hassan's parents passed away when he was young. Now all grown up, he returns from overseas and heads back home to his village in Taiping to handle...

When suspicious bruising is found on Lisa's son, Bobby, she is forced to confront her own childhood trauma to prevent him from being taken by a...

Faced with an unpleasant and exhausting argument between his parents, Leonardo, a 9-year-old boy, finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of fear for...

Wigald, a spoiled offspring, is no good with women. He finds solace with a psychiatrist and love with his poodle. When his mother dies, he is only...

Lily has saved up a large sum of money to fulfill her dream of studying acting at an American university. On the day she receives confirmation that...

The family breaks up. The boy Jonukas feels very lonely. He wants to find his mother himself. The search is long and difficult.

When his father runs off and his mother hooks up with a mustachioed new beau, eleven-year-old Mark becomes convinced that an uninvited talkative...

A gentle portrait of the mythical Spanish actor Arturo Fernández (1929-2019) in the hour of his passing, in his own words, through his latest...

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

A short film we made that brought together collectively all of our fears

Božidarka Frajt (playing herself) is an actress who is unsuccessfully looking for a job in Zagreb. The film follows her everyday life: she...

Seven year old Amy whose recently separated parents hold differing views on her social development is enthralled in her world of make believe. One...

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...

Franz Holl, 6 years old, is sent off by his mother and stepfather to live on his father's farm. His father turns out to be a mischievous man who...

Jordy, a 12 years old dreamer, has locked himself into the imaginary universe of his favorite movie, “Stand by me”. His elder brother...

A bitter coming-of-age story about boy who grows up in a remote Bosnian village shortly after World War II.

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken...