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 father recounts to his daughter the extraordinary journey of four young explorers throughout the world. Fascinated by this story, the little girl...

At age ten, Paolo asks his mother he wants to meet his father, an unknown soccer player who retired early due to an injury. The boy does not know it,...

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

Isolated in rural England, a teenage girl is forced to confront the recent death of her mother.

In a war-torn country, young Danuta and her family play a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with soldiers. Amidst the chaos, Danuta finds comfort and...

Yadira, a creative young Cuban girl, struggles packing on her final day home. Embarking on an immigration journey alone, her suitcase feels too small...

In the wake of a messy divorce, 11-year-old Peter moves with his mother to a new town. Coming to terms with his new life, Peter finds comfort playing...

Lily, a little girl, prepares a party for her father while she is in the care of her cousin Teo, who completes her idea of family.

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother.

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

The lives of two boys. Life is innocent when you're young, then age begins to complicate everything.

A tragic portrait of mother and child exploring grief through music and lyrical imagery.

Two sisters navigating the no man's land between childhood and adulthood have to deal with the consequences of their actions after one of the horses...

From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a...

Can you catch a friend in a trap? Vitello is bored, he has no one to play with. His mother tells him to go outside and look for a new friend. He...

After finding a dinosaur in the woods, a boy has a hard time getting people to believe his story until he brings the creature to show and tell.

Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979,...

A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted...

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