Nuori, äkkiväärä ja yksinäinen kirjailija, Alice, avaa vastentahtoisesti kotinsa Lontoolaiseselle evakkopojalle, Frankille, toisen maailmansodan aikaan. Heidän välilleen kehittyy kuitenkin odottamaton ystävyys ja yhteys yli elämän ihmeellisen arvaamattomuuden. Tarinat myyttisestä Kesämaasta, elämästä kuoleman jälkeen, kuljettavat parivaljakkoa Englannin rannikon häikäisevässä kauneudessa ja valossa kohti uutta elämänvaihetta ja toisia mahdollisuuksia. Lopulta Alice saa Frankin myötä enemmän kuin olisi ikinä voinut toivoa.
Kahdeksanvuotiaan pojan on palautettava ystävälleen tämän vahingossa ottama vihko, jottei hänen ystäväänsä rangaistaisi erottamalla hänet koulusta.
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
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.
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.
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
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?
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When a new pupil arrives at a comprehensive school, he decides to take his video camera to film the bullies at work.