When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.
August 1914. While the German army is gaining ground in the North of France, four boys aged 10 to 15, LUcien, LUcas, LUigi and LUdwig are left behind during the evacuation of their orphanage. Without the protection of Abbé Turpin and the schoolteacher Leutellier, the Lulus are now stranded on their own behind the enemy front line. Soon joined by LUce, a pretty young girl separated from her parents, they decide to reach the neutral country of Switzerland by all means possible... they embark on an adventure for which nothing and no one has prepared them!
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Childhood memories continue to live inside me. Some of the most painful ones are the ones that echo the longest.
One hot summer afternoon, two boys try to earn the cash for a movie in this beautiful evocation of the landscape of childhood.
Two Elders feel that their grandson is old enough to start learning important lessons about his Country. But is he ready for the challenge?
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Isolated in rural England, a teenage girl is forced to confront the recent death of her mother.
Luna returns to her childhood home to retrieve old recordings hidden in a closet and to re-live the sense of home that once was. Much to her surprise, she meets the new inhabitant, from who she hides her true intention.
Consolation
Nostalgic story that revolves around 'Dogu,' a mysterious clay doll.
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
A babysitter named Rachel (Mea-Leona Murray) is determined to find the reason for her mute grandmother's (Willow Hale) sudden intense outburst upon meeting Emma (Iliana Kalatzakis), the girl Rachel is assigned to babysit. Emma swears she's never met Rachel's grandmother before in her life.
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
Oli wants to finish her book. Jo wants to get over her breakup. What they don't want is to share a house.
Indy and Finn are best friends who escape into the forest to create a fantasy film filled with heroes, monsters, and wooden swords. As they immerse themselves in their imaginary world, the real world quietly encroaches, Finn is moving away, and neither boy knows how to say goodbye. Their playful filmmaking project becomes a means of clinging to a fleeting connection. Through toy knights, hand-drawn monsters, and whispered arguments, the boys wrestle with the inevitable changes that come with growing up.
Depicts the lives of children of the coastal hills and pastures who work as shepherds from an early age to earn a living.
After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
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 mourning and grief will be present inside their house all night long.