Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend who he doesn't...

Xiao Chun is thirteen years old and a talented violinist. Timid and sensitive, the boy finds it easier to express himself through his music rather than through words, convinced...

Twelve-year-old Tommy reluctantly moves with his father from the big city to a small Lapp village - the childhood home of his mother, who has recently died. The village is close...

Germany, 1942: in order to protect her son Heinrich, Marianne Meißner tries to make him believe that the Jewish neighbours are going on a journey to “Toyland”. One morning,...

To be “Treitum” is a fate worse than death and Blas, a ten-year old boy, lives in constant terror of this. El Jose, the outright leader of the gang, lays down the rules with...

Vincent, 8, tries to make sense of the world. Taking his clues from the grown-ups, his logical conclusions include that in order to avoid death he must never go to sleep again....

1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother are living happily at “La Belle Angerie”, the family estate in Brittany. Their grandmother’s death bring their parents back from...

It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place for a vacation with their parents but not Lucien and Adama whose parents can't...