POURQUOI ON SE BAT France | 2023 | 70 min Recommended age 14+ Camille Etienne, a young activist decides to set sail on a boat with two friends for a journey to the edge of the world to see for herself the effects of climate change. This will be only the first leg of a […]
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CHILDREN OF MAVUNGU
KINDEREN VAN MAVUNGU Netherlands | 2023 | 70 min Recommended age 3+ Deep in the Suriname rainforest, a mysterious god watches and watches over the children who live there. Yoseva, Kenny and Maticha face the last year of elementary school in their village, between the excitement of growing up and the fear of leaving the […]
REMEMBER MY NAME
Spain, France | 2023 | 76 min Recommended age 3+ After crossing the Melilla border from Morocco, Ihsane enters the sisters’ “Divina Infantita” reception center, where Assia and Nuhaila live. Hamza turns 18 and must leave La Purísima, the reception center for unaccompanied boys, and start fending for himself. They arrived all alone in Melilla, […]
SHABU
Netherlands | 2022 | 75 min Recommended age 14+ Fourteen-year-old Shabu has wrecked his dear grandmother’s car and has until the end of summer to raise the necessary funds to repay the debt. The documentary follows the adventures of the slacker boy who, torn between his passion for music and the commitment needed to keep […]
THE GOOSE
L’OIE DU PLUS FORT Czech Republic, France | 2023 | 13 min Recommended age 3+ A child dreams of becoming a great soccer player, but a mischievous goose sabotages all his backyard practices. Hostility between the two grows until an unforeseen incident drives the child to an unexpected act of caring, under the watchful eye […]
DON’T BLOW IT UP
ODPUSŤ Czech Republic | 2022 | 8 min Recommended age 3+ Two little girls play ball, but over a minor disagreement they fight and sulk. These feelings of anger and resentment make them swell like balloons until they find themselves on clouds, unable to come down. Will the two friends be able to join forces […]
SHADOW GAME
Netherlands | 2021 | 90 min Recommended age 14+ A choral narrative that shows the shadow side of Europe and its asylum policies, the documentary is a mosaic of the lives, hopes, misadventures, violence and disappointments that the very young protagonists must face in order to reach Europe, attempting to cross the border on foot. […]
SAND PIE
BÁBOVKA Czech Republic, France | 2022 | 10 min Recommended age 3+ Mína and her friend Toy are having fun in a sandy area, building cakes and castles. A bullying group of children on bicycles arrives to ruin the little girl’s play and, more seriously, kidnap her stuffed toy friend. Among the bullies, only one […]
THE MIND GAME
Netherlands, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania | 2023 | 61 min Recommended age 14+ The film is a sequel to the award-winning Shadow Game. In The Mind Game, one of the main characters from Shadow Game, becomes co-director and takes a voice with the filmmakers to tell us what happens to unaccompanied minors who […]
JOVANNAFORFUTURE
Netherlands | 2019 | 16 min Recommended age 14+ Jovanna van den Berg is a 13-year-old Dutch girl fighting for a better future, following the example of Greta Thunberg. Her family has made activism a daily life practice: their house is made of wood and uses solar energy; plastic is never purchased; and they have […]
