Childhood Movies

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...

After living 23 years in France, psychiatrist Dr. Roy is called back to his village by Fr Francis, the man who raised him during his childhood. He...

This is a last of 3 movies about 3 friends (the other two are "Kortik" and "Bronzovaya Ptitsa"). The gang has grown up and in this movie they...

As he sits on a present situation where his childhood's expiration date gives way to an uncertain adolescence, Agustín decides to create a...

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped...

A young orphan named Amiro lives alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and...

A story of homecoming from late 1970s, when 10 year old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral....

One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of...

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing...

A man is unpacking his childhood stuff and finds a purple man made of paper and to be duct taped to the wall, unknowingly this will become a...

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,...

A lonely preteen stumbles onto an antique PC in the attic of his new home, and begins chatting with another boy named Virgil. However, our young hero...

Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks...

By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.

A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story...

A reflection on love and identity with detours towards magical realism, which winks at the oral tradition of coastal populations and introduces us to...

Genuine connections between children and nature can revolutionize our future. But is this discovery still possible in the world's major urban...

Mila, an eleven-year-old girl, faces her last days of life before the end of the world. At the same time, she struggles to understand what this means...

Hugo, Stan and Bérénice grew up together then grew apart. They were inseparable. Fifteen years later, they meet again as adults. But...