Thirteen-year-old Clara lives with her mother and stepfather on a remote farm in the Swiss Alps. She lives in close touch with nature and can see and sense things that others are incapable of perceiving. Clara’s discovery of an ancient girl’s shoe leads to contact with Susanna, a girl who had lived on the same […]
Ella and her friends find out that their much-loved neighborhood school will be shut down, and all the kids will be relocated to a brand new central school – errr, sorry, not simply a school, but something much fancier: a Centralized Learning and Schooling Facility located in the city centre. They soon find out that […]
Eskil moves from town to town with his father in northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing ice hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things change when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society spending her time building a great ship. […]
A mother dies giving birth to a baby. Responsible of taking care of the newborn child singlehandedly, the father faces so many problems as the baby does not want to be bottle-fed. The problem continues even when he’s grown up… […]
1995. The Bosnian conflict is coming to an end but violence doesn’t stop between the two ethnic groups. The UN forces cannot prevent revenge, acts of cruelty and ferocities. Tracked by the militia, Irina and her father try to escape but when a sniper shoots her dad, Irina has to keep going on her own. […]
Milo, an isolated 10-year-old boy with ‘sensitive skin’, lives a life rigidly controlled by his father. Sparked by his first friendship, he runs away from home to attend the school camping trip – but never arrives. He falls into the hands of an ageing criminal couple, with whom he enjoys pure freedom from constraint – […]
Miguel makes the journey that his grandfather can’t make because he’s locked up by his own family. The mission is very simple, go to a funeral and leave an army jacket on the grave of an old man, a friend of his grandfather. Miguel, accompanied by Lola and Guillermo, leaves that island inside the city […]
Based on true events related to the life of Taiwanese piano prodigy HUANG Yu-Siang (Siang played by himself), this is a story of inspiration, discovery and love. Born to a rural family in Taiwan unprepared for the birth of a blind son, Siang was a curious and precocious child. Touch and sound was everything to […]
More than anything, 10-year-old Sascha likes to go on bike rides with the neighbour girl Elli and collect sounds. He also has a passion for fixing up his bike in his improvised workshop. What he doesn’t like is the new special school he has been sent to in order to learn how to read and […]
Nono, 13, would like to be like his dad, the world’s greatest cop, but he always finds a way to get into deep trouble. Two days before his bar mitzvah, his parents send him to his uncle, who is supposed to set him straight. But, loyal to his reputation, Nono uses the trip to get […]
Hasan is a five-year old boy who lives alone in the streets of Delhi, selling wind-up chickens. The little Indian is the very image of joyful life and determination. His adventures lead him to the secret that was first put forward by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle: “Happiness depends on ourselves”. […]
In the outskirts of Havana, Hugo dreams of baseball. One rainy afternoon he’ll become a champion. […]