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Portraits d'enfance
21 filmsPour accompagner la rentrée, voici une sélection de courts et longs métrages sur l'enfance. Découvrez de jeunes héroïnes et héros qui grandissent en expérimentant l'apprentissage, la tolérance et l'émancipation.
- Comedy-drama
- 2023
- France
- 1h23
Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
- Comedy
- 2023
- France
- 1h31
Étienne is barely twenty when he falls in love with Valérie. They are hardly any more when their daughter Rosa is born. And then, one day, Valérie leaves and never returns. He chooses not to make a drama of it and builds a happy life for him and his child. Sixteen years later, when Rosa is about to lead her own life, Étienne recognizes his wife in a television report. The past brutally resurfaces, and father and daughter are propelled into one last chaotic family journey.
- Drama
- 2023
- France
- 1h46
Khédidja works for a wealthy Parisian family who offered her to mind their children for a summer in Corsica. Bringing along her own two teenage daughters Jessica and Farah, it is an opportunity for them to go back to the island they left 15 years earlier, in tragic circumstances. While their mother grapples with her memories, the two girls indulge in all the summer temptations: unexpected encounters, mischief and first love experiences. Meanwhile, questions are surfacing about their distant past on the island, leading them to dig deeper into their mother’s version of the family story.
- Drama
- 2022
- France, Belgium
- 1h24
Although Dalva is 12, she dresses, wears make-up and lives like a woman. One evening, she’s suddenly taken away from a father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
- Drama
- 2022
- France
- 1h56
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from Africa to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons. Spanning 30 years from their arrival in France to the present day, Léonor Serraille’s follow-up to her Caméra d’Or-winner Jeune Femme (Cannes 2017) is a moving chronicle about the construction and deconstruction of an ordinary family.
- Literary adaptation, Comedy-drama, Biopic, Young audience
- 2022
- France
- 1h26
Once upon a time, there was a little boy drawn in black ink. This little boy went off to win the hearts of millions of readers. From the school yard to the beach, from Paris to the countryside, join Little Nicholas with his family and friends for exciting new adventures.
- Comedy-drama
- 2022
- France
- 1h39
A film shooting will take place at the cité Picasso, in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, in the north of France. During the casting, four teenagers, Lily, Ryan, Maylis and Jessy are chosen to play in the film. Everyone in the neighborhood is surprised: why only take the “worst ones" ?
- Drama, Young audience
- 2022
- France, Canada
- 1h50
Literally born and raised with horses, Zoe leads a happy life at her parents’ racehorse stables, driven by the dream of someday becoming a jockey like her father. To Zoe, nothing beats being with horses, especially her « best friend » Beautiful Intrigue, the stable’s prize mare, who taught the child how to walk. When Beautiful Intrigue gives birth to a foal that Zoe names Tempest, the girl is the first to see in him the champion her parents have been waiting and working for all their lives. The winner she will ride to victory. But Zoe’s dreams are shattered one stormy night, when a panicked Tempest accidentally injures the girl, leaving her permanently “disabled”. Furious at life, Zoe slips into despair and pulls her entire family down with her, especially her father, who is on the verge of losing everything. But with the indefectible support of her family and the help of Seb, a stable hand with a gift for communicating with horses, Zoe will seek to conquer the impossible, in pursuit of her dream.
- Drama, Historical film, Classics
- 1987
- France
- 1h35
1944, Julien is a boarder at a Catholic college. He discovers Jean, a proud and secret newcomer. Julien and Jean become friends little by little. However, this bond will never be able to blossom. One day, the Gestapo arrives at the school and arrests Father Jean and the three Jewish children he had hidden among his Catholic children.
- Comedy-drama
- 2021
- France
- 1h48
Nancy, East of France. Summertime. Seeking to escape her troublesome family environment, Sophie, 15, jumps at the chance to get the spare keys to her wealthy friend Jade's house. While enjoying the spacious home she thought deserted for summer, she bumps into her friend's older brother Stéphane, who, as fate would have it, was also planning on staying.
- Comedy
- 2021
- France
- 1h07
Abel (Louis Garrel), Marianne (Laetitia Casta) and their 13-year-old son Joseph (Joseph Engel) live together in Paris. Their everyday existence is thrown into turmoil when Abel and Marianne discover that Joseph has secretly sold valuables from the family home to finance a mysterious ecological project he and his friends have in Africa. They’re about to save the planet.
- Adventure, Comedy, Young audience
- 2021
- France
- 1h46
Summertime. In a beautiful village in Corsica, five young schoolmates are facing a dilemma: what to do about a local factory that has been polluting their favourite river? Desperate times call for desperate measures and they decide to take radical direct action. But the adventure doesn’t go exactly as planned…
- Drama, Literary adaptation
- 2020
- France
- 1h53
Dans les années 1990, un petit garçon vit au Burundi avec son père, un entrepreneur français, sa mère rwandaise et sa petite sœur. Il passe son temps à faire les quatre cents coups avec ses copains de classe jusqu’à ce que la guerre civile éclate mettant fin à l’innocence de son enfance.
- Biopic
- 2020
- France
- 1h25
Sasha, a 7 year old boy, has lived as a little girl since the age of 3. The film follows his daily life, the questioning of his parents and his brothers and sisters, as well as the unceasing fight that his family must wage to make his difference understood. Courageous and uncompromising, Karine, Sasha's mother, leads a relentless struggle driven by an unconditional love for her child.
- Young audience, Adventure
- 2018
- France
- 1h25
Everybody is gathered to celebrate Granny Sara’s 80th birthday at the seaside family house. It’s a beautiful summer for 9 years old Hugo. However this year, Granny Sara has fallen ill. One night, she brings together the family to tell the story of the Wolf. Someday the animal will come and take her away forever. Will Hugo manage to protect his grandma from the mysterious beast ?
- Comedy-drama, Historical film
- 1987
- France
- 1h44
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
- Comedy, Literary adaptation, Adventure, Young audience, Classics
- 1960
- France
- 1h29
When the mother of Zazie comes to Paris to meet her lover, she leaves her daughter with her uncle Gabriel. However the reckless and uncontrollable nephew leaves Gabriel's apartment and decides to visit Paris by subway. However the employees are on strike and the runaway girl gets Gabriel into trouble in a chaotic Paris.
- Comedy
- 2022
- France
- 7min
To be sisters is about sharing a special bond and laughing together. To be sisters is to be propelled by love. But these particular sisters share an extra something a bit different, and that’s absolutely fine.
- Comedy-drama
- 2021
- France
- 17min
When you're black, you have to work twice as hard as the others, otherwise you will dissapear. Laura, an absolute fan of Harry Roselmack, watches her favorit tv host dissapear. Will she dissapear as well if she gets bad grades at school?
- Young audience
- 2019
- 17min
Un été, dans la campagne coréenne. Bori, une fillette de sept ans, s’ennuie dans la ferme familiale. Tout le monde est occupé, sauf elle, car c'est la saison des récoltes. Elle cherche désespérément quelqu'un avec qui jouer. Mais rien ne se passe comme elle l’avait imaginé.