Childhood Movies

Eager to escape a life of confinement in the refugee camps of Western Sahara in Algeria, Mariam flees into the desert to join the army, naively...

Thomas, in his thirties, returns to his childhood home to a strange face to face.

This short film tells the story of a childhood, of a friendship and of growing up. A young man returns to the village where he grew up and discovers...

Two Elders feel that their grandson is old enough to start learning important lessons about his Country. But is he ready for the challenge?

Bernardo owns a furniture industry. In his sixties, he lives alone. After his father's death, he has to count to ten everynight to fall asleep. Time...

A boy has a dream of traveling to the world, especially to Paris where his uncle lives, but a wall built on his land divides his country and does not...

As a young father, watching his daughter go through her life experiences, film director Alexandre Mourot discovered the Montessori approach and...

Indy and Finn are best friends who escape into the forest to create a fantasy film filled with heroes, monsters, and wooden swords. As they immerse...

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she...

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

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study "what grows back” after an...

Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town.

A story inspired by real events that took place in the port of Valparaiso. Four poor children have been abandoned because their father, who is out of...

After her addicted husband sells their 6-year-old daughter, a mother takes matters into her own hands and sets off on a desperate journey to save her...

Left to her own devices during an August heatwave, a seven-year-old wild child and her companion have an adventure filled with squirt guns, cicadas...

A family is evicted from the home they have lived in for almost 20 years. Teenage Sara experiences the change as her parents fight during the moving...

David has to share his room with a stranger, although he is not so fond of the idea.