The City of Lost Children
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
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A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is at
For over 18 years a civil war in northern Uganda has dragged on almost completely unnoticed by the rest of the world. The rebels of the LRA ( Lord's Resistance Army) are waging a bloody guerilla campaign. They abduct chi
When amateur historian Catherine Corless begins examining records from a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, she stumbles upon evidence pointing towards a deeply troubling past. Refusing to let the questions
City of Lost Children is a near future thriller set in a refugee camp for kids in the UK. We follow Dami and Azra as they negotiate the chaos of the camp, desperately trying to find a home for Dami before Azra is deporte
On the outskirts of Belgrade, Serbia, thousands of Romani people live in the most desperate poverty to be found anywhere in Europe. Some are war refugees from the Balkans, and some have lived this way for generations. Ig
Desperate to have children, Kate has been undergoing excessive infertility treatments, only to discover Bill has been hiding a secret that may change everything.
After a plane crash, four indigenous children fight to survive in the Colombian Amazon using ancestral wisdom as an unprecedented rescue mission unfolds.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, at the time of the Prusso-Austrian War, a cuirassier, a hussar and an infantryman meet by chance and hide together in a secluded place. The war has left different marks on each of
Anshuman Chakraborty's “Paradise Lost Children” limns multiple plots in a single story starting from the reality of the hapless children in the red light area, to social stigmas related to sex workers and their plight se
Nathan is alone for the night with Anouk, his three-year-old daughter, for the first time. He has no car, no money, no place to sleep for the night. The evening turns into a long night full of encounters, mostly of men l
Audrey and her three siblings are abandoned in an old house, where they were supposed to spend the summer vacations with their father, but he unexpectedly disappears during the night.
In the dark days of Nazi Germany, Jewish schools were shut down one by one as the students and their families were herded into ghettos or sent to concentration camps. But amid the countless stories of tragedy and death a
Since Mina is sufficiently mentally impaired that her judgement is not all that it might be, in this Moroccan drama her actions are not questioned. She doesn't know what's happening when a taxi driver has sex with her, a
Having lived only twenty years, they are sentenced to another thirty in prison. The Island of Lost Children is the story of ten young inmates who participate in a video course inside the largest prison in Nicaragua
Lord Palmerston’s tenants departed a Gaelic world in rural Sligo for a Francophone world in rural Québec, carrying their music and folklore, language and religion to an emerging Canadian nation. One of nine coffin ships
BAFTA-nominated documentary covering the British Home Children program, which sent more than 100,000 children from the United Kingdom to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, where they frequently experienced
Buddha's Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who, armed only with his master boxing skills, wages an inspirational battle to help orphaned children, fight drug abuse, and preserv
Following the disclosure of the protocols of the committees that investigated the case of the missing Yemeni children. A difficult picture unfolds of the manner in which the establishment behaved towards the Yemeni immig