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Childhood season

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Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go

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Director Kim Longinotto's award-winning film follows the extraordinary stories of children who live at the Mulberry Bush boarding school.

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Most of the children here suffer from severe emotional trauma, are frequently violent and have been excluded from school. They are sent here as a last chance to turn their lives around.

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Longinotto's humane and compassionate film captures not only the confrontations between staff and pupils but also the unique bonds that are formed between them.

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My New Best Friend

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This observational documentary series explores one of the most significant turning points in a child's life – the transition from primary to secondary school.

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With each film based in a different part of Britain, these are affectionate portraits of how children change and adjust to a new world and new classmates as they begin to face adulthood for the first time.

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Focusing on contrasting schools – a girls' boarding school (The Cheltenham Ladies' College), an inner-city London comprehensive and the Scottish high school that is the only option for children raised in the remote islands of east Scotland – these films build a portrait of children on the cusp of adolescence in Britain today.

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Painted Babies Growing Up

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Film-maker Jane Treays follows up her acclaimed 1995 film, Painted Babies, by re-visiting the unique world of the baby beauty pageant queen.

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Her original film centred on the rivalry of the parents of Brooke Breedwell and Asia Mansur – two beautiful, heavily made-up four-year-olds, competing for thousands of dollars in prize money.

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Painted Babies Growing Up focuses on the Darling Dolls of America pageant in Texas, and reveals what impact the intense and early exposure to the pageant scene had on Brooke and Asia – and what sort of young women they are now at 17 years old.

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