Childhood Movies

Morocco, 2004. Adil, aged 11, spends the summer playing with his friends and waiting for his idol, Olympic runner Hicham El Guerrouj, to compete in...

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many...

If the wind spoke the language of children, what would its voice be? The film tells the story of migrating children that have found refuge from war...

Luisa and her sister Estela will play hide and seek during a particular night. They both have suffered an important loss in their family, the...

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...

Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to...

A boy meets and befriends a large cardboard box.

Carina is 8 and likes rock & roll. Her life changes completely when she believes that her new teacher is the same woman she saw in a her...

"Against an adverse sky, Celeste raises her flight. If he went up, nobody knows, nobody saw."

15-year-old Tom is going to spend another calm summer with his parents and younger sister at their summer house. But by fate, another family comes to...

A young woman travels to the Teddy Bear Motel after seeing it in her dreams. Between the allure of the motel’s portal into childhood and the...

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...

A poor boy whose slippers are broken tries to repair them while watching a rich boy continuously cleaning his new and shiny shoes.

A reflection about growing up

A kid plays with his real car and his toy car. Shot on Super 8mm.

The director's grandfather is a blind fortune teller and his father a real-estate owner. They have grievances against each other for dismantling the...

Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.

A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La traviata in 2016.

A hot summer. Hidden in the forest, Jeanne and Jonas live in their converted truck. Before heading back on the road, they prepare one last action.

A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day...