My favorite children's films

Bicycle thieves (1948, Italian, Dir: Vittorio De Sica)
Grave of fireflies (1988, Japanese, Dir: Isao Takahata)
Children of Heaven ( 1997, Iranian, Dir: Majid Majidi)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Japanese, Dir: Miyazaki)
Color of paradise(2000, Iranian, Dir: Majid Majidi)
Spirited Away (2001, Japanese, Dir: Miyazaki)
Not one less (1999, Chinese, Dir: Zhang Yimou)
The way home (2002, Korean, Dir: Jeong-hyang Lee)
Life is beautiful (1997, Italian, Dir: Roberto Benigni)
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000, Moroccan, Dir: Nabil Ayouch)
Kes (1969, English, Dir: Ken Loach)
E.T (1982, English, Dir: Steven Spielberg)

Miyazaki the Magician

Hayao Miyazaki films touch our hearts warmly and leave a feel of nostalgia. Canvas of most of his films was created from fairy tales and he painted it with the colours of real world. He denies violence (in any forms) and dreams about a harmonic world. His characters prove that human life becomes more meaningful when it shares the same destiny with the nature – simple and away from modern complexities. The idea of class struggle can be traced out from his movies and they proclaim humanity over the concept of modern development. The main features of his films are – simple storyline, ordinary characters in extra ordinary situations, elements of humanity, anti-war messages, environmentalism, denies violence, absence of stereotype characters, denies the concept of good versus evil, upholding the power of labour etc.,
His must see films are
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Spirited Away (2001, Oscar winner)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

My neighbor Totoro is one of the best animation movies ever produced in any language in the world.