This short documentary film gives us access to the showers of a public school bathroom in Norway. A film about identity…
Unleash the transformative power of hope as three courageous women share their raw and deeply personal stories of growi…
8-year-old Bowen is preparing for his third open heart surgery. He and his family hope that this time the surgery can g…
Maya has grown accustomed to being a hairless teenager. After being diagnosed with Alopecia areata, Maya tries to find …
Filmmakers Wambui Ndegwa and Cole Lewis make the Kenyan reality visible through the story of a family that began adopti…
A team of teenagers from the Czech Republic visits Morocco to play friendly ice hockey matches in that country. And whi…
Hailing from the remote villages of the vast subcontinent, in this inspiring documentary, a children's choir from the A…
In only six minutes, a little boy portrays his domestic universe. A younger brother, his grandparents, his most technol…
Shot in a beautiful black and white at a Zimbabwean orphanage, children and teenagers look at us and talk about the lif…
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
Will little Rebeka go down the slide? We'll find out in this fleeting but beautiful short film shot on black and white …
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
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…
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.
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
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 …
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