Marguerite has been swept away by a cystic fibrosis. She’s filmed by her both parents. The chronicle of her six years of life unfolds inside sequences, by musical intermission: first moments, early childhood, hospital rooms, friendships, celebrations and summer games, interspersed with overtures on the landscape. It’s a whole life story. The issue of the film is given since the beginning, but here, each second is shown for its intensity, his miracle, and his resistance to death.
For 15-year old Pauline, 10-year old Richard and 6-year old Lenni, life means something very special. They suffer from leukemia and they are facing death. Pauline writes poems, Richard knows everything about his disease and Lenni ?s charm fills any room. Three strong young people with all their plans, hopes, triumphs and defeats. An unsusual cinematic approach to a situation that is not all about the disease but instead the search for life’s energy and power.
We are in an institut médico-educatif in Angoulême. Every monday, some children heard story about differences..
In the Pokot minority in Kenya female genital mutilation remains as cruel rite of passage between childhood and adulthood
This moving and humorous documentary follows six teenagers who, like the “average American child,” spend five to fifteen hours a day behind screens. PLAY AGAIN unplugs these teens and takes them on their first wilderness adventure – no electricity, no cell phone coverage, no virtual reality.
Welcome to Los Angeles, the capital of baby business. Here no need to make love to have a baby: a test tube and a big cheque are enough.
On one side we have the daddy's seed, the sperm, on the other side we have mummy's egg, the ovule.
The heart of this industry : ovules' sells and purchase. In some agencies parents to be can choose by catalog the biological mother of their son. Brilliant students are ready to put their ovules on the market for 12000 euros.
For most parents, loving a child is stronger than death. However, life must go on after the loss of a child who has gone forever… At any moment, a family can be hit by what can be conceived as the worst of all possible dramas. This documentary proposes a vision of families who have lost children and how family members can rebuild after the disaster which constitutes the death of a child.
The discovery of a class photo of 1967, the death of my mother in 2002, led me to reconsider my youth spent in Bobigny, after my arrival from Algeria in 1962. In a devastated landscape, exceptional women licking wounds and lead the youth of all backgrounds towards a better future. They are a conductor, comedian, director of room cinema, journalist host of cine club, child psychiatrist and adolescents.
In official competition
If your child should undergo a bone marrow transplantation (BMT) you have to deal with many emotional and practical issues that have to be arranged.
Parents of four different children share their BMT experiences.
The DVD consists of four chapters:
1. Just before the BMT
2. The acute phase
3. Shortly after the BMT
4. How are things now?
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