childhood

A harsh and dreamy story of a young girl from the American West and her longing heart. Through Betty we experience a tight family clan of children born by children born by children ...

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

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, a hitman boy.

A young orphan wakes up after wetting his bedsheet. Living under the supervision of nuns, he'll spend night and day attempting to amend his "mistake".

The Story Of Leonora is a short film about a little girl who is given a red eye by two giant water bears and follows her demon to the edge of another world, a red world.

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 an abandoned school, protected ...

An audiovisual exploration of tlaxcalan childhoods, which delves into the imaginary in a curious, creative and challenging way.

A portrait of growing up told through filmmaker Sean Wang's middle school yearbook. Go Hornets.

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

How do you become who you are? Through the slights one experiences, believes freelance journalist and author Dirk Gieselmann. One late evening, he is alone in his apartment. His camera ...

To commemorate the passing of their beloved father, four brothers very much at odds congregate for one final week at their summer house in the Magdalen Islands. As they bid their final ...

A journey through C.S. Lewis’ early life and his dramatic conversion story about his inner conflict.

A story of siblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and ...

A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.

Once there was a sailor beloved by all. She sailed the ocean blue seeing adventures through and through. And her name was Dorothy-Do.

During a cold night, the nine year old Ana has room invaded by an evil spirit: the Costureiro (Tailorman), who seeks an innocent soul. She is only safe when within her blanket, wich the ...

In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand ...

Set in a small town in South India, before the internet & mobiles, the series is a nostalgic ride about imagination, adventures and the magic of childhood. A little boy from a railway ...

Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion ...

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.

A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.

Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that ...

The story revolves around four teens - the good-looking twins Asaba Yuuta and Yuuki, the effeminate Matsuoka Shun, and the class head Tsukahara Kaname - who have known each other since ...