Childhood Movies

With a sense of strange timelessness, this fable immerses us in the daily life of a child fascinated by the elusive rays of the sun that stir life on...

Left to her own devices during an August heatwave, a seven-year-old wild child and her companion have an adventure filled with squirt guns, cicadas...

Four teenage boys throw a party while their parents are out. The evening passes with internet legends and pizza, until one of them notices someone...

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

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.

Roch Carrier recounts the most mortifying moment of his childhood. At a time when all his friends worshipped Maurice "Rocket" Richard and wore his...

Before leaving for Rome with his mother, five year old Natan is taken by his father, Jorge, on an epic journey to the pristine Chinchorro reef off...

Memo is a nine-year-old boy who lives in Turkey with his mother and little sister, while his father works in a Netherlands seaport. When war looms...

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a...

A young boy wrestles with a deepening sense of remorse after the sudden disappearance of his friend. When those close to him begin to question his...

This short film tells the story of a childhood, of a friendship and of growing up. A young man returns to the village where he grew up and discovers...

Thomas, in his thirties, returns to his childhood home to a strange face to face.

An unnamed passer-by is forced to trace a circular route inside an abandoned tram station, facing loss and time. The broken walls act as a channel,...

Lluis and Jesus grandma recently died. They are not capable of coping with the situation, but her memory will guide them.

A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences...

Homelessness in the United States takes many forms. For Elizabeth Herrera, David Lima and their four children, housing instability has meant moving...

Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that...

When Jean drives by the house of his childhood years later, he faces the dramas of his family’s past.