Listen (2017)
• November 26th, 2017 • 0h 14min
Documentary
Overview
The “Kindertelefoon” (Child Helpline) in the Netherlands provides a listening ear. One girl talks about being home alone virtually all week; another’s sad because her parents are getting divorced. A boy in an asylum seekers’ center is worried about the future, while another boy doesn’t want to be gay and hopes these feelings will pass. Every day, the Kindertelefoon takes calls like these from children who want someone to talk to. But children also call to talk about their pets, to practice their audition for The Voice Kids or to make pranks. The recordings of these phone conversations are accompanied by images that quite literally give color to the conversations, and that beautifully reflect their tone—sometimes hilarious or naughty, but more often sad or heartrending.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Sing!
Released on: 2001-01-01
Music, Documentary
Sing! is a 2001 American short documentary film about the Los Angeles Children's Chorus, directed by...
Lessons from a Calf
Released on: 1991-09-30
Documentary
An elementary school in Japan begins an experimental program that frames the students' curriculum ar...
The World According to Tippi
Released on: 1997-01-01
Documentary
Tippi is no ordinary child. She believes that she has the gift of talking to animals and that they a...
Don't Get Angry
Released on: 1953-01-01
Documentary, Family
This short film offers a children's guide to anger management.
Autism: The Musical
Released on: 2007-04-18
Documentary
Follows five autistic children as they work together to create and perform a live musical production...
Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation
Released on: 2007-08-13
Crime, Documentary
Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lure...
The Beginning of Life 2: Outside
Released on: 2020-11-12
Documentary
Genuine connections between children and nature can revolutionize our future. But is this discovery ...
Spellbound
Released on: 2002-03-14
Documentary
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scrip...
September Five at Saint-Henri
Released on: 1962-09-05
Documentary
This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, ...
School of Hope
Released on: 2020-12-31
Documentary
In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once suppor...
44 Pages
Released on: 2018-04-18
Documentary
A portrait of Highlights Magazine following the creation of the cultural phenomenon's 70th Anniversa...
Synonymous With
Released on: 2021-04-12
Horror, Drama, Documentary, Comedy, History
A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host ...
Promises
Released on: 2001-01-30
Documentary
Documentarians Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg traveled to Israel to interview Palestinian and Isr...
Paper Clips
Released on: 2004-09-08
Documentary
Whitwell, TN is a small, rural community of less than two thousand people nestled in the mountains o...
Flatball: A History of Ultimate
Released on: 2016-10-23
Documentary
On May 8, 1989, Sports Illustrated ran an article about Ultimate frisbee… about a team with no name ...
On Putin's Blacklist
Released on: 2017-10-26
Documentary
Traces the new Cold War between Russia and the West from the ban on American citizens adopting Russi...
Siddharta
Released on: 2019-10-31
Documentary
Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other one 65, are the core of a community th...
Not My Life
Released on: 2011-10-28
Documentary
Not My Life comprehensively depicts the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and mo...