The Ulmans are a tranquil bourgeois family until their father unexpectedly dies. Suddenly his wife and their four children find themselves having to come to grips with the pain of...

In the spring of 1938 Carol, a twelve-year-old Spanish-American girl who was raised in New York, travels to Spain with her sick mother who, without telling her family, has decided...

In the 1950s, nine-year-old Elina lives with her mother and a younger brother and sister in Northern Sweden. The family belongs to the Finnish-speaking minority. Elina's father...

Johan, a newspaper correspondent, his wife Lotta and their two children, 12-year-old Alice and her little brother Pontus, live a comfortable middle-class life that is shattered...

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...

In the late '60s Elias, a ten year-old boy who lives in Athens, suddenly loses his father. Each in his own particular way, the members of the family try to deal with the...

Stanley Yelnats is a young man dogged by bad luck stemming from an ancient family curse. Unjustly condemned for a robbery he didn’t commit, he is sent to Camp Green Lake....

Pete, a skilful 17-year old amateur guitarist in a school band, loses his consciousness in the middle of the band's gig. The diagnosis is tough: the doctor cannot say for sure...