Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives, but Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close...

Thirteen-year-old Christos lives with his mother and two brothers in a one-room flat situated in a working-class neighbourhood. The boy spends his free time picking pockets in the...

The often fearful eleven-year-old Tom discovers a green ghost in his cellar. Slimy Hugo is an ASG, an Averagely Spooky Ghost, whom Tom soon realizes is not only completely...

The 12 year old girl Gudrun experiences the end of childhood in a little town near Nuremberg. Her father is fighting far away on the Russian front, her mother packs Gudrun off to...

Summer. Emma, 10, is glad to be back at her grandma’s farm. But this time something is different: Mr. Klipperbusch passed away, and his only heir, his nephew Albert, has big...

Awet has the heart of a fighter: filled with strength, love and longing. Despite the chaos and turbulence of the war of independence against Ethiopia, bright little Awet grows up...

Elina, a 15-year-old aspiring rapper, is forced to leave her homeland of Finland when her mother decides to join her boyfriend in the South of France. 

In Hamburg, an aged sorcerer is searching for a replacement. Freddie, who's about 12, finds the wizard's book of spells and knows enough to read a few lines to his friend Emma....