Difficult Childhood Movies

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her...

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous, years for many hard-core Yugoslav...

A temporary house for abandoned children near the front line in eastern Ukraine is run by a small group of social workers determined to provide...

Seven year old Amy whose recently separated parents hold differing views on her social development is enthralled in her world of make believe. One...

Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every...

A bitter coming-of-age story about boy who grows up in a remote Bosnian village shortly after World War II.

Kati, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is suffering from an incurable illness. She must go through steps of happiness and sorrow, bonding and...

Past/present story of a young man who lives in a fantasy world of aeronautics to escape a more challenging reality.

How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end - after all, then the father will return, whom the boy...

Eleven-year-old Steve is the smallest boy in class. He thinks girls are soppy, detests football and prefers painting. To alleviate his loneliness, he...

During the flight, the hero of the film, the boxing champion, recalls his life's journey. The hero’s childhood was in the first post-war years....

A lonely twelve-year-old boy with problem parents experiments with drugs and enters an idealised fantasy world.

When his father runs off and his mother hooks up with a mustachioed new beau, eleven-year-old Mark becomes convinced that an uninvited talkative...

Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's...

A look at the trials and tribulations of school and childhood.

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a...

When former child star Aaron Schwartz (Mighty Ducks, Heavyweights) returned to the acting world as an adult, he found himself always being asked this...

After losing his innocence, his best friend, and the love of his adolescence, this coming-of-age gangster drama follows Harman in an hour of his...

Two people on a road-trip through Europe and Morocco to find inner freedom.

The family breaks up. The boy Jonukas feels very lonely. He wants to find his mother himself. The search is long and difficult.