Ten-year-old Ukrainian boy Dima has no parents. He does not want sweets, he does not want a bike, and he does not want a dog. All he wants is to play soccer. Dima finds the Polish-speaking ‘father’... A child, lost in the dysfunctional Ukraine of the Yanukovych era and surrounded by a complete absence of adults, is fighting to carve out a place for himself in society.
This year, in light of the pandemic and the inability to gather with our loved ones, a few of our staff members reviewed their favorite holiday films with the hope of recreating some of the sentimentality that reminds us of home.
"First Day" is a trans kid slice-of-life tv show that brings desperately needed diversity to coming-of-age stories in mainstream media. Here's a show that get's it right by having a trans actress in a story centered on trans girlhood.
Laggies is a fantastic movie, filled with down-to-earth characters, transcendent themes, and witty comedy
This film is based off of The Diary of a Young Girl, which was written during the Holocaust period.
