Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
A nine-year-old girl and her parents, the three of them locked up at home. The girl must do her school homework, but th…
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
In this heartwarming short film, filmmaker Elisabeth Aspelin films the everyday life of her two young children: Karla a…
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film follows two Cuban boys in their minimalist - and full of freedom - everyday life,…
Everything around Asalif, an Ethiopian boy, is in constant change. The construction of a housing complex on his land af…
What is a family? This documentary explores the enigma through Aliona, a special needs child who begins to live with an…
What is the experience of children growing up in same-sex families? This documentary offers a children's point of view …
Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
A girl draws a sketch of her schoolyard and explains how this space is divided between boys and girls at recess every d…
The arrival of a magic car creates a change in a small town in Iran where children often drop out of school due to the …
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …
This inspiring documentary follows Suraj, an 11-year-old boy who works in the coal mines of northeast India, a confinem…
Through the educational experience of a school in a popular neighborhood in Seville, Spain, this documentary shows the …
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
Pawel dedicates his life to finding the ideal sound hidden in everyday objects: wires, old toys, screws. This is a shor…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
This documentary shows us the life in a refugee camp on Arbat, in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The film focuses on a boy of th…
Like silent observers, in this short film we are witnesses of how children of all ages play with toy weapons of all kin…
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
A captivating short film about Thea, a 12-year-old Norwegian girl whose life is conditioned by epileptic seizures.
Malek, a Tunisian girl, wants to be a professional fencer when she grows up. Along with her best friend, Malek strives …
Childhood follows a group of children in a rural kindergarden for a year. The film portrays a genuine learning process …
When three young friends set out on a journey they discover being on your own isn’t as easy as it seemed.
Chanaika, a girl who prepares to dance at the Caribbean carnival in Rotterdam, exposes her bravery after surviving dome…
In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets but the innovative circus Upsala and its di…
After being sold by her family as a child to work as a domestic slave for 12 years, Urmila, a young Nepalese girl, take…
Sky, a boy with a severe hearing impairment, takes on the daily challenge of being a normal child.
Moon is a ten-year-old girl. She writes books about a world where children can transform into animals and where magic a…
Kids and Music is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together childr…
Buffalo Girls tells the story of two 8-year-old-girls, Stam and Pet, both professional Muay Thai prizefighters. Set in …
If this were a letter, the return address would be: From the students and teachers of Sita School, Silvepura, Bangalore…
Two children who are a part of the 'left-behind' children phenomenon in China reveal what it's like to live with a shor…
Tong Phuoc Phuc operates an orphanage in Nha Trang, central Viet Nam. He persuades expectant mothers from aborting with…
The move from elementary school to high school is tense for any child. But most children only have to leave behind the …
Lilly is nine years old and lives with her mother and brothers Robbin and Melvin in a squatter community deep in the wo…
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