Difficult Childhood Movies

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken...

A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him, but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb....

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.

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...

Hassan's parents passed away when he was young. Now all grown up, he returns from overseas and heads back home to his village in Taiping to handle...

An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting childhood trauma victims...

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

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....

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...

A gentle portrait of the mythical Spanish actor Arturo Fernández (1929-2019) in the hour of his passing, in his own words, through his latest...

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

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

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

Božidarka Frajt (playing herself) is an actress who is unsuccessfully looking for a job in Zagreb. The film follows her everyday life: she...

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...

Lily has saved up a large sum of money to fulfill her dream of studying acting at an American university. On the day she receives confirmation that...

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

Wigald, a spoiled offspring, is no good with women. He finds solace with a psychiatrist and love with his poodle. When his mother dies, he is only...

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she...