Mia est une fillette d’à peine dix ans. Alertée par un pressentiment, elle décide de quitter son village natal quelque part en Amérique du Sud pour partir à la recherche de son père. Ce dernier travaille sur un chantier gigantesque visant à transformer une forêt tropicale en luxueuse résidence hôtelière. La route est longue pour retrouver son papa. Mia doit franchir une lointaine montagne, entourée d’une forêt énigmatique et peuplée d’êtres mystérieux. Au cœur de ce monde de légende, la fillette découvre un arbre hors du commun et se confronte aux véritables forces de la nature. Une expérience extraordinaire…
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and most of their days are spent begging. Andrej has found himself here because of disagreements with his family. Kristina was driven into this way of life by the hatred of her stepmother and twelve-year-old Roma by the regular beatings he received from his constantly drunk father. "When it is worst, we try to make money for food by prostitution," admits ...
Chai-yan a accusé Dickson Fan d'avoir vendu des médicaments contrefaits, ce qui a conduit Fan à dix ans d'emprisonnement injuste. Fan s'échappe de la prison dans une ferme rurale où il rencontre l'adolescent Frank Wong, qui l'aide à s'évader à l'arrestation de la police. Plus tard, Fan découvre que Frank est son fils biologique et il trouve un emploi à l'extérieur dans la capitale provinciale afin de gagner de l'argent et de payer anonymement pour Frank pour étudier la médecine à l'extérieur de la ville. Frank, ne sachant pas que Fan est son père, pense que Fan lui fait un don par gratitude. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme, Frank travaille dans la société médicale de To. To a toujours soupçonné Frank d'être le fils de Fan. Afin de forcer Fan à sortir de sa cachette, To encadre Frank comme il a encadré Fan à l'époque.
Linda gives birth to an illegitimate child from a relationship with her boyfriend, Alex, who dies in an accident. To avoid a scandal, her father asks his younger sibling to take the baby to Cirebon. Linda is then told that the baby is dead. The baby, Yatim, is treated badly by the caregiver. The caregiver steals the money sent by Linda’s father to support the baby, so Linda’s father gets angry when more money is demanded. Linda overhears the conversation and is told the truth. So Linda goes to Cirebon to pick up her child but Yatim has already run away to Jakarta to look for her. He is aimless and homeless, and becomes a shoe polisher. A children’s toy seller hears a radio broadcast looking for the missing child and advises Yatim to go meet his parent. Yatim refuses, and instead gets hit by a car. Finally, they are reunited at the hospital.
The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionalized at Children's House no. 6 from Bucharest. For Mészáros, the concern for the situation of children left orphaned during the Second World War is autobiographical: the director directly experienced the absence of parents in her own childhood.
Ils font partie des 177 000 enfants qui, en France, grandissent éloignés de leurs parents, la plupart du temps sur décision d'un juge. Ils s'appellent Agnès, Richard, Anne et Rachel, ils ont 57, 62 et 26 ans. Ils sont éducateurs et ont fait le choix de vivre avec les enfants placés dont ils s'occupent. Leurs destins de croisent à Vecherny, le village où se trouve le centre d'accueil. Onze maisons y accueillent 65 mineurs. À contre-courant du "risque" d'attachement mis en avant dans les politiques de l'Aide Sociale à l'Enfance, ici se vit un quotidien familial et chaleureux.
Daru is an orphan who keeps having the same dream where he becomes a tree being struck by lightning. Between trying to fix the troubles he made at school and maintaining his relationship with his hard-pressed aunt, Daru discovers the meaning behind his dreams.
After "Getting Ready For Office" where Mr. *#@% gets late to his office, he gets fired. He finds freedom in this adverse situation, but slowly things take a dark turn which leads him to addiction. We follow him in his journey in his new reality.