Film is also known as Une Enfance.

First Festival Screening – October 21, 2015 @ 6:00 PM at The AMC River East
Second Festival Screening – October 22, 2015 @ 8:15 PM at The AMC River East
Last Festival Screening – October 26, 2015 @ 3:30 PM at The AMC River East

In this tender, keenly observed look at growing up in poverty in small town France, 13-year-old Jimmy dreams of a bourgeois life with family vacations and games of tennis. Trapped in an unstable household with a drug-addicted mother and her criminal boyfriend, Jimmy is forced to grow up too quickly. Over the course of a sweltering summer, Jimmy must find moments of hope in a world full of strife.

Director – Philippe Claudel

-Chicago International Film Festival Page

– Originally Post October 21, 2015.