Topic: Childhood

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Nikolay Burlyaev · Valentin Zubkov · Yevgeni Zharikov · Stepan Krylov

Plot The film is centered around a 12 year old Russian boy, Ivan, whose parents died at the hands of Germans invading Russia during the Second World War. In striving single-mindedly...

Direction Ignacio Agüero

Cast Alicia Vega

Plot Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo...

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Omero Antonutti · Sonsoles Aranguren · Icíar Bollaín · Lola Cardona

Plot "El Sur" ("The South") is the story of Estrella, a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region...

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Gaspard Manesse · Raphaël Fetjo · Francine Racette · Stanislas Carré de Malberg

Plot During the winter of 1943, Julien Quentin, a pampered mother's boy who acts tough to the students at the school but is actually a soft kid who wets the bed,...

Direction Hanna Polak · Andrzej Celinski

Plot Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary, Short Subject, this 35-minute documentary, takes an unblinking look at the reality of homeless children living in Russia today - in particular...

Direction Sōsuke Tōka · Yosuke Hatta · Arifumi Imai

Plot TV Series (2021 - 2022). 23 Episodes. Bojji is a deaf, powerless prince who cannot even wield a children's sword. As the firstborn son, he strives hard and dreams of...

Direction Moira Walley-Beckett · Niki Caro · David Evans · Amanda Tapping

Cast Amybeth McNulty · Geraldine James · R.H. Thomson · Dalila Bela

Plot TV Series (2017-2019). 3 Seasons. 27 Episodes. Anne is a coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and many challenges, fights for love and acceptance and her place...

Direction Majid Majidi

Cast Mohammad Amir Naji · Amir Farrokh Hashemian · Bahare Sediqi · Fereshte Sarabandi

Plot Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one...

Direction Edet Belzberg

Plot The film follows a group of abandoned adolescent street children who live in the Romanian subway system. The street kids are encountered daily with commuter adults passing them by in...

Direction Pete Docter · Ronaldo Del Carmen

Plot Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco....

Direction Bahman Ghobadi

Cast Avaz Latif · Soran Ebrahim · Hirsh Feyssal · Saddam Hossein Feysal

Plot 2004: San Sebastian International Film Festival: Winner Golden Shell. In a village in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the border between Iran and Turkey, the villagers desperately seek for a satellite dish...

Direction Ross Kauffman · Zana Briski

Plot While documenting the experiences of prostitutes in Calcutta's red-light district, photojournalist Zana Briski befriended many of their children and decided to provide them with a chance to record images from...

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Ana Torrent · Fernando Fernán Gómez · Isabel Tellería · Laly Soldevila

Plot In a small Castilian village in the early 40s, in the wake of the devastating Civil War, Ana and her sister, having seen a mobile projection of Frankenstein, becomes obsessed...

Direction Lenny Abrahamson

Cast Brie Larson · Jacob Tremblay · Joan Allen · William H. Macy

Plot Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the...

Direction Hayao Miyazaki

Plot Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover...

Direction Tôya Satô

Cast Hoshi Ishida · Mao Sasaki · Yasunori Danda · Mayuko Fukuda

Plot A tragic film covering an aunt's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II whiling caring for her niece and nephew.

Direction Montse Armengou · Ricard Belis

Cast Magda Oranich

Direction Danny Boyle · Loveleen Tandan

Cast Dev Patel · Freida Pinto · Madhur Mittal · Anil Kapoor

Plot "Slumdog Millionaire" is the story of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life....

Direction Patricia Ferreira · Pere Joan Ventura · Chus Gutiérrez · Javier Corcuera

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Yûya Yagira · Ayu Kitaura · Hiei Kimura · Momoko Shimizu

Plot In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.