Films by topic Youth/Children
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An Abbreviated LifeNew Zealand An Abbreviated Life follows Sarah, who suffers from Cystic Fibrosis as she struggles to keep well and manage her life after leaving home for the first time.
Aki Ra’s BoysSingapore/Cambodia Aki Ra’s Boys follows Boreak, a young Cambodian boy and landmine victim, and Aki Ra, a former Khmer Rouge child soldier, both living in a country haunted by war.
Buddha’s Lost ChildrenThe Netherlands In the borderlands of Northern Thailand, a rugged region known for its drug-smuggling and poverty, one man devotes himself to the welfare of the region’s children.
The ExchangeBelgium Through music, six men from Palestinian territories and Israel provide children and people of their cities a refuge from the strife of their everyday life.
A Grandmother’s TribeNew Zealand A Grandmonther’s Tribe casts an unobstructed and compassionate lens onto the lives of two Kenyan grandmothers, who find themselves in the riptide of the AIDS…
HighnoteNew Zealand Conductor Karen Grylls and 46 members of the NZ Youth Choir travel through Eastern Europe and compete at the 2004 International Choral Competition in Gorizia, Italy.
Lost in LiberiaGermany/Switzerland A young expat is sent by the Red Cross to Liberia in Western Africa, and tries to reunite parents with their children who got separated during the civil war.
My Grandma: Frau MashaIsrael Yonatan, a 13-year-old boy, sets out with his camera to document, for the first time ever, the story of his 90-year-old grandmother, Masha, a Holocaust survivor.
On a TightropeNorway/Canada Four children at a government orphanage in China attempt to learn Dawaz — tightrope walking, mirroring the political and ethnic tightrope they find themselves…
Please Vote For MeSouth Africa In a school in Wuhan, central China, eight-year-old children compete for the position of Class Monitor. Please Vote For Me is about an experiment with Chinese democracy.