Truffaut widmet sich erneut dem Thema Kinder und Kindheit. Die Dreharbeiten fanden in der Kleinstadt Thiers statt, in der uns kleine Episoden des Lebens verschiedener Kinder zwischen Schule und Familie gezeigt wird, kurz bevor die Sommerferien beginnen.
A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as their roles are reversed.
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. For these young detainees, few rights are guaranteed, even on paper. After release, the experience of detention continues to shape and mark former child prisoners’ path forward.
Sometimes tales for children are turning into nightmares... « Arthur » is an awareness movie about children's rights, to learn how to look at them, to listen and to protect them.
A history of Finnish immigrants in America.
The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working in America.
"The Voice of Innocence" is a documentary that shows how, starting in 1959, the Cuban Revolution put into practice a comprehensive and universal policy of safeguarding the rights of the child, even under the multiple difficulties resulting from the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States more than six decades ago. Cuba is one of the main signatories of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, signed on 20 November 1989, when the country had already made extraordinary progress in protecting the rights of the child, in comparison to developed countries, such as the United States, which as of today hasn't yet ratified the Convention.
The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.
This short film brings light to the reality of transsexuality during childhood and aims to emphasize the importance of the role of grandparents.
An entertaining video filmed over two years. Kids, teachers, heads, parents, ex-pupils tell the story of this unique experimental school.
“Kids don’t have to go to lessons at Summerhill and can wear and do mostly what they want. How does that work??!!
Mit dem Film LOCKDOWN KINDERRECHTE wird Kindern und Jugendlichen eine Stimme gegeben, aber auch Experten, die sich mit Kinder- und Jugendgesundheit beschäftigen und Einblick darüber geben können, welche Spuren der Umgang mit der Corona Krise bis jetzt bereits hinterlassen hat und noch weiter hinterlassen wird. Gemeinsam mit Kindern und Jugendlichen wurde dieser Film entwickelt: Sie haben aus ihrer Sicht gefilmt und zeigen dadurch, wie sich der Lockdown auf ihr ganz persönliches Erleben auswirkt.
At 14 Rabha El Haimer was an illiterate child bride, beaten, raped and then rejected. Ten years later, she is a single mother, fighting to legalise her sham marriage and secure a future for her illegitimate daughter. With unprecedented access to the Moroccan justice system, “Bastards” follows Rabha’s fight from the Casablanca slums to the high courts.
The important tradition of Islamic education in Senegal has been left to develop in disturbingly perverted ways. 50.000 koranic students (Talibes), young boys between 4 and 15 years old are subjected to exploitation in conditions akin to slavery. They are forced to beg on the streets by their koranic schoolteachers and suffer severe physical abuse and neglect. Following the staff of local grassroots NGO La Maison de la Gare (MDG) in their efforts to combat this, the documentary sets out on a poetic exploration of the nature and circumstances that breed and prolong the suffering of the children.