"Daniel Patrick Carbone's haunting debut feature offers a dark vision of boyhood adventure in a great outdoors fraught with peril." New York Times

Berlin International Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival

Hide Your Smiling Faces vividly depicts the young lives of two bro...

"Venice Atienza’s wistful and evocative documentary is rooted in the liminal space between childhood and adolescence." The Guardian

Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs International Documentary Festival
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam

12-year-old Reyboy lives in Karihatag, ...

“Los Lobos” thrives as an intimate window into what it means to confront immigrant life in piecemeal." Indiewire

Berlin International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
Miami Film Festival

A wonderfully realised look at the immigrant experience in the USA, the award-winning Los Lob...

Locarno Film Festival
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Camerimage International Film Festival

Dorottya Zurbó's insightful documentary explores the life of Kafia, a 17-year-old who fled to Hungary on her own, escaping from a child marriage in Somalia, at the age of fifteen. Sh...

"Eva Marie Rødbro's arresting feature debut probes the inner and outer struggles of three generations of women in suburban Colorado Springs." Variety

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
Cork International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival

A raw and emotionally impactful story of a y...

Cannes Film Festival
Berlin Internatonal Film Festival
Vienna International Film Festival

In this nearly wordless children’s fable, a red balloon forms a life of its own and starts to follow a young boy through his daily activities around the streets of Paris.

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Canada Shorts Film Festival
San Jose International Short Film Festival
Roma Short Film Festival

Flyer Boys is the story of a Ukrainian grandfather and his Canadian-born grandson who find themselves at both generational and cultural odds as they spend long summer days working together delivering ...

Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Cinekid Film Festival
Goa International Film Festival

11-year-old Jonas (Eliás Vyskocil) longs to spend summer shooting rabbits and exploring the Slovakian countryside with his cool Grandpa Bernard, but his mother has already made alternate vacation plans...

"A superb performance from Yelizar Nazarenko propels this drama about a nine-year-old boy in increasingly dire straits." Screen Daily

Busan International Film Festival
AFI Fest
Camerimage

After being smuggled across the border from Ukraine into Germany, nine-year-old Roman (Yelizar Nazarenko) i...

"A lyrical work that's as bright and captivating as it is poignant." The Hollywood Reporter

Dublin International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Palm Springs Films Festival

A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers in a tale is born of the imaginations o...

Wander Life is a tender portrait of middle school for introverts. Hinano, a soft spoken and unassuming student, hides from her school mates in fear of being bullied. One day, seeking shelter at the school's infirmary, Hinano befriends her school nurse Shindo. The two confide in each other and Shi...

BFI Flare
Cucalorus Film Festival
Framline Film Festival

Based on a true story, Torrey Pines is an inventive, wonderfully imaginative coming-of-age tale taking place in Southern California in the early 1990's. The animated film focusses on the filmmaker Clyde Petersen's childhood over the course...

Winner Venice Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival

Take 1917 and substitute the trenches of war with the winding alleys of a Filipino slum, and you've got Engwkentro which follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape a city controlled by an iron-fis...