Eux et moi

SC 9.4/10 

Year: 2001
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: For the last few years an ethnographer has regularly gone to a small New Guinea village. He speaks the languages of these people who walk around naked with bows and arrows, who dispute over forest gardens with axes, and who have a short fuse like our own French peasants. He knows them well, but a certain discomfort subsists between them. They seem to be interested only in his toothbrush, they too often take him for a cash machine.
He finally comes to realise, while filming the monetary dealings and negotiations he has with them, that all of this, what he didn't want to see and was ashamed of, is in fact what bound them together. Only after a detour through impurity and self-interest could they find common ground.
We discover people who are no more savage than our next door neighbours. We end up forgetting that they live so far away. We watch with bemused smiles as the ethnographer and these people, who didn't boo him off the stage, get their feet wet in a friendship made the hard way.
Video Added: 23.04.2024

Nära jorden

Year: 1943
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: Scenic pictures to music by Bengt Rodhe.
Video Added: 12.04.2024

Julemærkefilmen

SC 6.0/10 

Year: 1939
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check, summer camp, sunbathing
Description: The sale of Christmas tags is the basis for the establishment and operation of the Christmas tag homes around Denmark. The purpose of the homes is to house and help vulnerable and particularly needy children. Many of the Christmas tag children come from the big cities. Funds may be tight here, and the children may be left to fend for themselves and life in the wretched backyards. At the Christmas mark homes, they can receive care, fresh air and get back to work after illness. The film follows daily life at the various Christmas mark homes in Denmark: Lindersvold in Faxe, the Mørkøv home in Northwest Zealand, Fjordmark by Flensborg Fjord, Holbølls Minde by Svendborg, the Hobro home by Mariager Fjord and the Christmas mark home in Juelsminde.
Several of the recordings can also be seen in the film 'The Christmas Tag Film' from 1949.
Video Added: 09.04.2024

Előzzük meg a gyermekek hátgerincferdülését

SC 8.5/10 

Year: 1956
Country: Soviet Union
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: Black and White Soviet Educational Film (1956).
Spinal curvature is a serious disease that must be cured. How can it be cured and how can it be prevented? We get an answer to this in the film. It was made at the Popular Science Film Studio in Leningrad.
Video Added: 05.04.2024

Mir kumen on

SC 6.5/10 

Year: 1938
Country: Poland
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium which stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.
Video Added: 02.04.2024

Detdomovtsy

SC 3.2/10 

Year: 2011
Country: Russia
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing, swimming
Description: Memoirs of former orphanage pupils about life during war and post-war times.
Video Added: 29.03.2024

Letters

SC 7.7/10 

Year: 2017
Country: Norway
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Over the span of a year, filmmakers Marte (Norway) and Jéro (South Korea) exchange visual letters, documenting their everyday lives.
Video Added: 22.03.2024

Noci sonanti

SC 8.4/10 

Year: 2019
Country: Italy
Section: documentary
Tags: boy
Description: Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other 65, are the core of a community that renounces every civilising comfort. Damiano Giacomelli and Lorenzo Raponi observe the life of the 'Noci Sonanti' over one summer marked by sun-drenched days and newborn cats.
Video Added: 19.03.2024

De kommer över gränserna

SC 1.5/10 

Year: 1961
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: About children refugees in the West and East. Filmed in Oujda, Morocco and refugee camps in Hong Kong in the summer and autumn of 1961.
Video Added: 08.03.2024

Leah

SC 6.9/10 

Year: 1982
Country: Israel
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: Eitan Tal’s film, which he made as a student at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television Studies, chronicles the daily life of Leah – a blind five-year-old Jerusalemite girl. The film follows Leah as she spends time with family and her friends at nursery, and during a Braille writing lesson. Leah speaks candidly about her life, coping with blindness, and her dreams for the future. The film won a Best Documentary Short award from the National Council for Culture and the Arts.
Video Added: 01.03.2024