Eleven-year-old Maria loses her little brother to cancer. Her mother retreats into deep depression; her father attempts to keep the family emotionally afloat. Sent to her...

Paul, 10, is ill with leukemia and runs away from home to leave with his father. The man, a truck driver separated from his wife, is about to leave for Spain. He ignores his son's...

Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and...

Korea 1950-1953. In a small rural village war seems far away, but poverty and ideological differences put its inhabitants against each other. Two boys, Sung Min and Chang Hee,...

The heroine of the children's film De Bal is eleven-year-old Sophia, who doesn't understand why her father does not live with her. She creates a fantasy world in which she...

In a village legend has it that the scourge of leprosy is caused by the fish that cries in the lake. Only a man with five sons and five females can kill him. A man once succeeded...

Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a...

Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay...