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Summary: This film is about Gils, a young boy (about ten) in a juvenile mental hospital in 1950's France. Flashbacks recount his conflicts with authority and his strong relationship with Jessica, a similarly rebellious schoolmate. Simultaneously, a compassionate doctor develops a trusting friendship with Gils, which a higher-ranking authoritarian doctor tries to thwart.

Summary: Sandro (played by affable newcomer Matteo Gadola) is the son of a well-off factory owner from Brescia (Boni) and his wife (Cescon). On a men-only boat trip in Greece with his father and his uncle (Corsato), Sandro is thrown overboard when a wave hits the boat; the two brothers do not notice anything because they believe Sandro to be sound asleep in his bed. Sandro is eventually picked up by a rickety boat carrying illegal immigrants to Italy. On the boat, Sandro meets the Romanian siblings Radu (the talented Vlad Alexandru Toma) and Alina (Ester Hazan), who say they are still minors as well. The three will end up in a waiting facility for illegal immigrants in Italy when the two Italians in charge abandon the ship and the immigrants are picked by the Coast Guard.

Summary: Jacques is of French descent, and Madiou is his West African friend. The two boys are just eleven years old and they have been friends all their lives as they grew up in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. Like their elders, they are completely unprepared for the vicious and violent reign of terror which is soon to sweep this newly independent country, terror which comes at the instigation of the country's unbalanced new leader.

Comments: Suddenly . . . They were the only adults left alive on the island.

Summary: A couple of English tourists rent a boat to visit the fictitious island of Almanzora, just off the southern Spanish coast. When they arrive, they find the town deserted of adults, there's only children who don't speak but stare at them with eerie smiles. They soon discover that all the children of the island have been posessed by a mysterious force or madness which they can pass from one to another, and which makes them attack and murder their elders, who can't defend themselves because nobody dares to kill a child...