Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Displaced Childhood is an animated documentary for children (10+) that tells stories of childhood migration across past and present. Structured in 4 episodes set in Lithuania, Italy, Slovenia and a fourth country to be defined, the film follows contemporary migrant children as they explore stories of their peers forced to migrate in the last century. Each episode weaves together diaries, family photos, historical archives and poetic animation to construct an engaging tale of resilience and fantasy. In the first episode, Klara, a 13-year-old Ukrainian refugee girl in Lithuania, rediscovers the lives of Regina and Jūratė, girls forced to flee Lithuania in 1944 during World War II. Through archives, family photos and animation, their hardships take shape in fantastic worlds of flying carpets and adventures in the Wild West. In Italy, Rejoice, an 11-year-old migrant from Benin, relives the mirror of her childhood through the story of a little girl from Piedmont who emigrated to Argentina. The interaction between past and present creates a universal narrative mosaic, which explores migration with an unprecedented and deeply human gaze. Episodes in the other 2 countries are in the pipeline.