Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed; if they resign now, then, tomorrow, facing life difficulties, they will always run away and become bums. Furthermore, all five must succeed, if one of them cannot do it, then all of them fail. Takashi is really worried and wonders if he won't be always the loser who couldn't succeed in the back pullover bar exercise.

1994 film by Jean-Claude Sussfeld

The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

故事发生在山西某地。城里孩子杨晋（李书晨 饰）小学毕业了，他天资聪颖，能清楚地背诵全省地名，自感已经长大，为庆祝自己的这一发现，他写信告诉父母自己要去奶奶家，真实的情况是他跑到了山里好朋友王小波（王琛 饰）家。王小波学习成绩平平，平日里调皮捣蛋，他即能炸黄河里的鱼，又能捉山里的螃蟹，是小伙伴中的“混世魔王”。杨晋的奶奶有严重的重男轻女思想，她爱孙子胜过爱孙女，而常受爸爸批评的小波并没觉得自己做错什么，在俩孩子眼中，成年人的世界是不可理喻的，只有他们看到的才是真正的世界。两个城乡不同环境长大的孩子，在这个属于自己的夏天里，度过了一段无法无天的美好时光……

A French family moves to a new neighborhood with during the summer holidays. The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, Laure, who experiments with their gender presentation, adopting the name Mikäel.

1994 film by Dorota Kędzierzawska

2005 film by Dorota Kędzierzawska

丧父的12岁小女孩明月，在暑假里由于怀疑和嫉妒，将妈妈的情人推入水中疑似死亡后，迎来了人生的初潮。但是这一切，在她云淡风轻的应试化暑假日记作业，灿烂童年式的描述中结束了。影片表达的是一个小女孩成长的孤独和羞耻，同时也刻画了人在面对体制时的自我分裂和粉饰太平。
《明月的暑期日记》有一种独特的诗意。 大量隐喻符号和主观化音响效果的使用，为电影语言留出了极大的阐释空间。影片用最丰富和敏感的触觉，为观众呈现了一段孤独而羞耻的成长岁月。明月直视镜头的同时也撕裂了伪善的谎言：我们忽视他人的痛苦并不是不知情，而是人性中根深蒂固的冷漠早就决定了，真相对谁而言都是沉重的负担。

2014 South Korean drama film

2004 film by Christophe Barratier

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.