The summer of all sorrows(1989)

The Summer of All Sorrows is a French drama set in Algeria during summer 1961, a turbulent period marked by colonial conflict. Eleven-year-old François grapples with apocalyptic fears and profound loneliness, convinced the world is ending. Desperate to change his fate, he prays for his absent parents to return, wrestling with abandonment and dread in a landscape fractured by political upheaval. The film captures a child's interior world—his anxieties, magical thinking, and vulnerability—against the backdrop of a nation in crisis. As François navigates his isolation, the narrative explores how personal anguish mirrors the broader turmoil surrounding him. A poignant portrait of childhood vulnerability and the search for safety in an unstable world.