Khane-ye doust kodjast? (AKA: Where Is the Friend's House?)

IMDB: 8.1/10

Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.

Hadashi no Gen (2007)

IMDB: 7.7/10

The trials and travails of the Nakaoka family as they endure the horrific atom bomb of Hiroshima.

Uno para todos (AKA: One for All)

IMDB: 6.3/10

A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has to help a student adjust back into school, although none of his classmates want him there.

Zendegi va digar hich (AKA: And Life Goes On)

IMDB: 7.9/10

A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.

Mon maître d'école

IMDB: 7.3/10

When Marcel Pagnol meets The Class

Daan

IMDB: 6.8/10

Don is the story of a young boy desperate to find work to help support his family and heroin addicted parents. Moving from employer to employer, Don, aged only 9 and illiterate, faces an almost impossible task without an identity ...

Oppenheimer

IMDB: 8.3/10

A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.

Respiro

IMDB: 7.0/10

On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.