Children often perceive more than we give them credit for, even without the control and context adults might have. From navigating a missing parent, trying to feel safe in a dangerous situation, meeting a friend who has a grownup job, to being put to work alongside adults: These six fiction shorts showcase how children experience complicated human situations.

Ahmad and Fatemeh are a brother and sister who are dreamers and have set out to realize the biggest dream of their lives‚Äîa dream that, although considered impossible by everyone else, they want to make come true through the power of their will.

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Looking For Daddy (Iran)

The man and the wife are quarrelling all the time in the car. Their child, on the back seat, tries to find a way out of their world.

Bang Bang (Iran)

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home. As their friendship grows, she discovers that Ngoc is secretly a sex worker. Meanwhile, an art book of Tamara de Lempicka’s female nudes, stolen from a bookshop, silently bears witness.

Rooftop Lempicka (United States, Vietnam)

Lily, 10, lives under her bed. But sometimes, "the other one" sits on it and calls her...

The Little Girl Who Lived Under Her Bed  (France)

Hong lives with her daughter in a shabby hostel and works at its bar. When her boss decides to sell, they face eviction. Finding a bag of money seems like salvation, but soon brings secrets, debts, and danger in a dark comedy about motherhood and survival in a foreign land.

Little Treasure (Spain)

Through A Child’s Eyes

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