Children's Game #1: Caracoles

High above the city that shimmers like a distant sea, a boy kicks a plastic bottle half full of liquid up a steep shanty road of light and dark. A norteño song plays somewhere. A truck passes. The challenge is to get to

Don't Blame Your Children

Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children

Director Patrick Reed (Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma) accompanies Roméo Dallaire on a mission to Africa to address the horrific practice of forcing children to fight as soldiers. (TIFF)

Dark Reunion: Slaughter of the Children

Frieds reunite in a dark scary place

Where Children Play

A young woman is forced to nurse the father who abused her after her mother's death.

Children of Jazz

Babs Weston agrees to marry adventurer Richard Forestall before his hasty departure, accepting his ring and promising to be faithful. Richard returns to find that his fiancée has become a "victim of jazz" and is engaged

The Children of Siberia. We Remember

Every year on June 14, the Siberian Children Foundation goes on a trip to Siberia to remember their loved ones who stayed there. Along with the trips, they've made documentaries and held conferences. This year marks the

Loose Change: A Memoir of Childhood

A man-child sets off to buy a new cage for his beloved hamster but is enticed into a world of hedonism. He must become resourceful to make ends meet.

Aponibolinayen and the Winged Children

A family of Lumad keeps their eldest daughter's 'adhikain' (aspirations) by immortalizing her into a myth, blurring the line between reality and folklore.

Groundswell Rising, Protecting Our Children's Air and Water

Groundswell Rising, Protecting Our Children's Air and Water captures the passion of people engaged in a David and Goliath confrontation

Children of Nablus

In one of the largest refugee camp of West Bank, near Nablus, a writing and directing workshop offers to children the possibility to develop their creativity and their freedom of speech, usually trampled.

Children of France During the War

A anti-war film about war and children.

Calypso: Children of the Exodus

A makeshift shelter, an abandoned hotel, improvised shelters for children displaced by violence in Mexico's Tierra Caliente. Their drawings give shape and color to the same dreams of happiness which children long for eve

If You Love Your Children

A young man loses everything but finds himself, when his fight against climate change consumes his life.

My Childhood Part 2: James Baldwin’s Harlem

James Baldwin narrates how his early years in Harlem made him alive to the forces at work in the city and American society to manage the black population. Describing the economic and visual disparity of New York’s famed

Children of Shatila

Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located in Beirut's "belt of misery," the camp is home to 15,000

Do They Catch Children Too?

‘I was born here, so if they catch me, will I be forced to return?’ This is the question asked by Ryan, a 10-year-old Filipino boy whose father is arrested for being an illegal alien in Israel. Nato is Ryan's cousin and

Uummannaq Children's Home

Short film by Yang Bo.

Chocky's Children

A year has passed since Matthew said goodbye to his alien friend, and in the summer holidays he meets Albertine, a mathematical prodigy, with whom he discovers he can communicate telepathically. One day Chocky returns to

Children of Eden Jr.

Spark Theater Company's 2023 production of Children of Eden Jr., directed by Caleb Brooks.