Jurors’ Selection

A beautiful and delicate flower grows in the middle of the asphalt jungle. A street rubbish bin witnesses the mistreatment of the Flower in the polluted public way. Concerned about her torment, the rubbish bin seeks a way to protect her.

Shooom, a baby owl, hatches just as a storm turns the bayou surrounding her tree upside down. No sooner has she fallen from her nest, then the little fledgling totters off into the mangrove, pushing a second egg from the brood along with her. Come hell or high water, she’s determined to find a mother...

Patchwork Penguin has a problem: he wants to run fast, but he does not know how! Will the Patchwork Pals find a way to help him?

A docu-animation about children in different parts of Chile. In each chapter we meet real children who tell us who they are, what they like to do, where they live, all through animated characters in 2 and 3D technique.

A series about Jessy, an innately curious little girl and her best friend, Nessy, a five-and-a-half-thousand-year-old purple sea monster. Nessy waits at the train station for his Great Granny Grand Monster to visit for Great Grand Monster Day. Jessy is fascinated by the echoes she hears in the station. Jessy is Curious - Where else can they find echoes?

The "Sesame Street" gang joins forces with guests including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anne Hathaway and Tracee Ellis Ross for this "virtual playdate" aimed at helping kids and families around the world feel connected in this time of uncertainty.

The theme for the main "City-Scope" segment is sewers. There are manholes everywhere in the city, but what’s underneath them, and what’s happening further down the pipes? Let’s use the city-scope to investigate underground!

At bedtime, Bingo is determined to have a big girl sleep and wake up in her own bed. Mum tells her to try her best, but she will always be there if she needs her. When Bingo finally falls asleep, her dream transports her into outer space!

Raven's Quest features first-person profiles of Indigenous kids from across Canada. Each episode showcases a different child and their unique perspective on their day-to-day hobbies, talents, and First Nations, Metis or Inuit practices.

Little J, he’s five and Big Cuz, she’s nine. They’re a couple of Indigenous Australian kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog. With the help of Nanna and their teacher Ms Chen, Little J and Big Cuz are finding out all about culture, community and country.

When the day sleeps, the Boy is so afraid of the dark that he doesn't want to sleep or eat, because his belly is full of fear.

History and medicine are combined in this clever and sharp infotainment series, where two eleven-year-olds get to experience some of the worst plagues and epidemics in history with the questionable pleasure of selecting the world’s worst disease at the end of the season.

A drama series about friendships, relationships and empathy. All the stories appear to have unhappy endings, but thanks to the gentle and wise voice over every character gets a chance to resolve the story in a better way.

Schools are closed, children cannot visit their grandparents and everyone is staying at home. How does Covid-19 impact us and our everyday lives? What matters the most right now and what can we learn from this novel experience?

Using a friendly, approachable style of animation, this series speaks directly to children about abuse. In each episode, a crying child’s tear turns into a fairy and empathizes with the child’s feelings, giving them encouragement to escape from their abusive predicament and seek a sense of security.

Based on the awarded Swedish picture book by Ulf Nilsson and Eva Ericsson. One summer's day we started a business called Funeral Ltd., to help all the poor dead animals in the world. Esther did the digging, I wrote the poems, and Esther’s little brother, Puttie, cried.

Damian has a friend named Martin, but his parents found out that Martin has two male parents; considering this unacceptable they forbade his friendship, now Damian must decide between obeying his parents or continuing to be Martin’s friend. What would you do?

Jia Kai LIU is a rail enthusiast. Although he has moderate intellectual and developmental disability, he can memorize the information about railway, high speed rail and mass rapid transit. Additionally, Jia Kai LIU can take his mom to travel by train. Being a railroad conductor is also his dream.

It’s Hannah Bradford’s first year of high school. As a transgender girl, Hannah not only has to navigate the challenges that come with starting a new school, but find the courage to live as her most authentic self.

After Maudie, a ten-year-old puzzle prodigy, solves a crime on her first day at school with her new classmates Ezra, Ava and Kyle, the future is obvious: the four children must form a detective agency together.

Rocky & Me follows the story of Stella, a girl living with Cerebral Palsy who gets her first wheelchair, and along with it, her independence. Stella names her first set of wheels “Rocky”.

When Mikey moves from New Zealand to Western Sydney, he finds himself in the thick of the ultra-competitive schoolyard game of handball. After saving a kid on the playground from a wayward ball, he finds he has the most powerful strike in the world.

While getting a haircut by hairdresser Marko, children talk about their view of life, their concerns or about what makes them really happy. Through the mirror we not only see their new haircuts take shape, but above all we hear what happens inside their little minds.

Lucy is a girl examined in a hospital. One day she wakes up and sees there’s a boy staying in her room. Lucy and the boy get to know each other by secret language and set off for adventures in the hospital.

A young woman attempts to describe herself, casting her life in the ideal light that society expects. The film’s imagery, however, tells a different story, poignantly illustrating the intense anxiety that comes with the quest for perfection and the pursuit of happiness.

Hibiki lost his eyesight when he was 2 years old, after retinoblastoma was found in both of his eyes. Despite this cruel fate he carries a positive attitude toward life, supported by his family. Having advanced to middle school in the spring of 2019, he has begun commuting by train for the first time accompanied by his mother.

On just another day training in the pool for the young members of the swimming team, the cusp of early puberty threatens to turn innocent friendship and camaraderie into something much more. Sixth grader Yu-Hsuan has a closely guarded secret, but this tide of feelings inside is brewing into a storm...

In spite of their cultural and geographical differences, nine young female activists are united under the same struggle: raising awareness about the climate emergency, fighting against the inaction of politicians, and promoting radical societal change, so that nature and social justice become our top priority.

In 1998, Keur Simbara, Senegal was among the first communities to publicly abandon the traditions of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) and child marriage, traditions which had been practiced for centuries. 13-year-old Ndeye Fatou Fall tells how her life has been affected by profound changes that occurred in her village a few years before she was born.

The stage is Nagahama High School on Shikoku island, Japan. There is an aquarium inside the school, run by the students. They keep 2000 fish and make them available to the public free of charge every month.

The district of Molenbeek in Brussels has reputation in media as a center of jihadism, but for six-year-old Aatos and his friend Amine, it is a familiar home. Together they search for the answers to life’s big questions. But the brutality of the adult world makes itself known when terrorists detonate a bomb in the neighborhood.

A 14 years old Buddhist nun, EAINDRA WADI wants to study at University of Medicine to become first ever NUN-Doctor. But nuns have less chance in education. After Eaindra raised the question to Head of monk, her curiosity will go through to the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health.

A youth documentary series on how South African children use their passions to overcome adversity. As each one’s story unfolds, viewers come to realise that, although characters seem so different on the surface, they share a common story of passion, perseverance, growth and overcoming.

Mae Jemison decided that being a Black woman isn’t going to be an obstacle to fulfill her dreams. She is the first Black woman sent to space. And the first female astronaut to play in Star Trek. If we believe, we can go far, really far.

Led by experts and inspired by similar programmes from American schools an ordinary class of eleven to twelve year olds takes part in a series of activities designed to challenge everything they thought they knew about race.

Somewhere deep within the corners of social media lurks a shameless but covert business of online selling, not of the usual goods or beauty products but of babies! The documentary special probes deeper into this appalling practice perpetrated by Adoption Pages in Facebook.

This film captures Robert Fisk, journalist for more than 40 years, in relentless action- feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions.

Sixty years of producing standardized fruit and vegetables and creating industrial hybrids have had a dramatic impact on their nutritional content. This documentary is an investigation about the seeds economy and reveals the issue of privatization of life.

In 2012, millions of bees died in Mayan indigenous communities in the state of Campeche. After knowing about the causes and effects on the environment, health and culture, Mayan communities face racial prejudice, the collusion of entrepreneurs, Mennonite communities, Mexican authorities and the multinational company, Monsanto.

Majid, a financially struggling man, comes up with a ploy in order to better the life of his wife, Sarah. They also share their kid with this dangerous game. Violence can be passed on from one generation to the next. If we are not aware of this, we will all burn in this fire.

It is a choral story to tell the human drama experienced by patients and doctors during Covid-19. It is dedicated to the emotional stories, to the wounds of the soul left by the virus, releasing those strong emotions that after the traumatic shock had remained hidden, unspoken.

At Good Grief groups of children meet to understand the passing of a parent or a sibling through play. Death may come suddenly or slowly, violently or peacefully, but it leaves a pain that the child has never felt before.

It tells the story of actor Bobbi Charlton’s long journey through gender dysphoria. After half a life in the wrong body, Bobbi (who grew up as Robert) transitioned at the age of 53. Bobbi’s incredible story is funny, heartbreaking and ultimately life-affirming.

An explosion occurred on June 27, 2015, and caused burns to 484 people and killed 15 people. One of the injured patients, Zhang Ting Yu, received burns up to 83 percent of her total skin area. It is a story of her recovery as well as changes in her relationship with her parents.

Five daughters prepare to marry, and five ordinary fathers unfold their untold stories - stories which reflect the social and political histories of modern Asia; the legacies of colonialism, war and rapid development.

“1 out of 11 women in Japan gets breast cancer, and that 1 was me.” Yuki AKUTSU, age 46, working at TV station, having interviewed many women participating in Pink Ribbon activities, finds out that she has bilateral breast cancer. This is a real story of her "patient Journey" directed by herself.

In 1935, Yonezo Okita left his home in Hiroshima, Japan, and began a new life in Canada. Then war and state-sanctioned racism changed everything—he became the enemy. Three generations later, his grandson, artist Randall Okita, leads us on an interactive virtual pilgrimage through an emotional geography of immigration and family to recover what was lost.

Our latest virtual program, Ask a Survivor, has been 8 years in the making; 46 interviews, 32 survivors, multiple layers of programming and all done by our internal team here at the Jewish Holocaust Centre. This resource presents students with the opportunity to pose questions, compare and contrast responses and see the similarities and differences in the survivors’ answers.

In the podcast, young people confess their deepest, darkest secrets or experiences to a host - no matter if they've been ashamed or they simply didn't have the guts to talk about it with anyone. Sex, illegal actions, shameful events: everything and everyone is welcome. Each episode is about one secret, that the protagonist tells the host.

What if we look out of the window? What do you see? What would you like to find behind the frames, curtains or shades? The proposal was to accompany children in this unusual experience through art and collective creation.

The "News-WG" are three young news hosts explaining news in an informative and entertaining way on Instagram. The topics vary, from explaining international conflicts, German domestic politics and phenomenon on social media.

An interactive comics, Spirit of the Past, was created for the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Using a gripping story it helps children understand the communist era in Czechoslovakia.

Teen suicide is on the rise in Japan, with the largest number occurring on September 1, the day that school resumes after summer vacation. The #NightofAugust31 Project, broadcast every year since 2017, was designed to provide comfort to teens at risk who dread returning to school.

23-year-old Momina is dreaming of changing the society by teaching basic literacy, health, sanitation and family planning programs for excluded women group in cave-made classroom. She contributes to change the society and to improve women’s life.

This program will feature five women from different communities/tribes who refused to undergo Female Genital Mutilation, which is a ritual that is considered the “gate” to womanhood and an inevitable pre-requisite for marriage.

In Ecuador, many teachers are facing the difficulty of maintaining studies for low-income students, especially with the emergence of COVID-19. This program focuses on a teacher who goes around visiting houses and places with no internet access and finds many of them are suffering from sexual violence. She later establishes a foundation to eradicate this problem.

In Bangladesh, predominance of men over women is very strong. Especially, in the sporting sector, girls are difficult to be accepted. Joya was born in a small ethnic group and struggled against the wind to continue her higher education and became the first Bangladeshi female referee for FIFA.

This project consists of series of short animation songs about dream professions of the girls. Each original song is a new story and a new dream of a girl and ideas if how to achieve her dream. It aims to empower girls with proactive role models and to show the importance of education for successful future of girls.