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"Mambi a young girl who embodies the experience of self-education living with her widowed father, discovers he suffers from a gambling addiction resulting to unending debts. David turns into a runaway when creditors come knocking leaving Mambi to deal with the chaos. She embarks on gambling in street games and with a winning streak Mambi pays off the debts then goes searching for her father and she brings him home. David despite his broken heart realizes his daughter will do anything for him. He starts taking money from her, borrowing money from any and every one around them. Mambi completely gives up her childhood to take care of David. Pa Dan, the neighbourhood drunk determined to change the course of her life begins to meddle. He takes Mambi to a school to show her what children her age should be doing but Mambi shows less interest every time as she believes it is her duty to take care of her father. Mambi in an attempt to repress her want for a formal education and a normal childhood creates Mbassi a fictional character who tries to convince her that she is wrong. Mambi begins to see that she is not wrong in wanting what normal kids want, she stops paying his debts and starts saving the money for school. Soon after David struggles to keep Pa Dan away from Mambi when he comes home to find an admission letter. Her bold move is met by harsh disapproval despite her pleading. David steals the money saved for her fees and Mambi is left wondering and gradually accepting her faith as he gambles away the money. Pa Dan takes a risk and finds David he tells him of his experience as a father and how drinking cost him his family and everything he holds dear. He convinces David that he still had a chance to save his relationship to his daughter"

Rejected by his father at birth, a boy with albinism navigates a childhood of bullying, tragedy and cautious hope in this coming-of-age drama.

An aging and disenchanted film star gets a new assistant in the form of a young female security officer.

A teenager from the projects in Harlem aims to get into Yale, but must push against the world holding her back.

Three teenagers attract public outcry after they post a video identifying the assailant who attacked one of them.

After her mother's sudden death, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed stepmother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.

Kids from the orphanage in Malishev receive for Christmas a newest computer from a former pupil of this children's home, and now the president of a large electronic corporation, as a gift. The computer tells them a story that can happen in 25 years. The Great Electronics after escaping from the Island of Inventors, settles on the planet Mango and invents Fantomization (teleportation). He kidnaps Agnieszka and gives it to the governor of the planet, Don Bazar. In the meantime, Pan Blot is in the last Nature Reserve. Peas, Agnieszka's friend, together with his class friends, goes to the Blob to help find Agnieszka .

A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.

A coming-of-age story about two inner city boys who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.

Desperation and debt causes a man to kidnap a little girl for her ransom. It is a bold and dangerous move, but does he have what it takes to see it through to the end? Does he have it in him to do the unthinkable if necessary?

Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.

A meticulous clerk for a bookstore that has just been shuttered suddenly finds herself taking care of her cousin's witty 11-year-old daughter.

A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.

The story of Seyolo Zantoko, who as a freshly graduated doctor of Congolese descent in France, struggled with his family to integrate in a small rural village, and ended up being considered as one of the most respected doctors in the area.

A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.

Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, their bond grows stronger, as Marcel seems to be the only person she can connect to.

After surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adopting parents.

Stage mime Antoine Moreau (Sir Tom Courtenay) is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.

Lille Virgil, 8 years old, lives by himself and his own rules, in a shed he has adapted himself. He spends his time looking after his chicken, helping village people, after a fashion, going to school (when they're not suspended), and grifting for what he needs. He and his best friend have a hairy old time with their exploits, including dodging Orla, the local ne'er do-well, and setting him up to get caught.

Near the end of the 19th century ten-year-old Pelle and his elderly widowed father Lasse leave Sweden for Denmark. Due to his age Lasse can only find work on a large farm where workers are often ill-treated. Despite many hardships Pelle and Lasse work to create a better life than the one they left in Sweden.