L'or que s'ha trobat al riu Ruby fa que tots els homes vagin cap a aquella zona. Per això, en Wil Andersen ha de contractar els nens de l'escola per ajudar-lo a portar 1.200 caps de bestiar des del seu ranxo "Double-O" fins a l'estació de Belle Fourch. Durant el viatge, aquests nois es fan homes sota la vigilància paternal d'en Will. Pel camí troben un carro on viatgen prostitutes, experimenten les conseqüències d'una borratxera de whisky i coneixen gent com Cabells Llargs i la seva banda de lladres de bestiar.
Durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, a Anglaterra, molts nens són evacuats de les ciutats i exiliats a cases a la perifèria perquè se n'encarreguin. Quan un d'aquests nens, Frank arriba a casa d'Alice, una escriptora turmentada per una història del passat, es resisteix a acceptar-ho. No obstant això, a mesura que es van coneixent, Alice descobreix la innocència i la curiositat de Frank i, a poc a poc, va obrint el cor, desbloquejant records i sentiments del seu passat, aprenent que les segones oportunitats existeixen.
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.
La relació peculiar entre un professor paranoic d’un institut d’Estocolm i un dels seus alumnes és el tema d’aquest film.
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
The naughty boy Ott, who spends his school hours lazing and fighting, gets into a launching spaceship and flies into space. This is how exciting and even dangerous adventures begin, during which Ott experiences a long-known truth: you can't go through life without school wisdom. Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1961.
On his first day as a fourth-grader, Sune is welcomed by an unwanted surprise. A new boy is in his seat, and he's everything Sune wants to be. Not only that, but his name is also Sune - it's the worst possible start to the fourth grade.
Tock, heir to a long line of comedians has a problem. He is not funny. Constantly upstage by his younger sister, he falls in love with a dermatologist who incidentally is the only one who finds him funny.
When a new pupil arrives at a comprehensive school, he decides to take his video camera to film the bullies at work.
Aana Mayil Ottakam is an anthology film. This is not really very common in Malayalam industry. But this concept is going on since ages and even legendary filmmakers like Satyajit Roy has tried this genre. It is always very interesting to see a collection of great short movies. You cannot get bored watching a movie like this. It is good to see that producers are interested in investing innovative concepts like this. Aana Mayil Ottakam is a compilation of short movies with some of the biggest names of Malayalam film industry.
A schoolboy is able to see real miracles in everyday routine. He is never separated from his faithful cat and shares with the red purr all the little adventures that happen to him, and sometimes even troubles. What awaits these faithful friends?