What age is Fanny's Journey (Le voyage de Fanny) appropriate for?

9 alone, 8 with a parent; 9 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Fanny's Journey (Le voyage de Fanny) not recommended under 9?

What's in it: our reading; jewish children on the run, in 1943; the rest. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Fanny's Journey (Le voyage de Fanny): what age is it for? 9 alone, 8 with a parent

9 alone, 8 with a parent.

Movie · 2016 · 1 h 34 · drama, history

YRS

The trailer

Alone, or with you

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralonethe sweet spot

Alone from 9; from 8, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

The sweet spot: around 10-11, when school comes to the war and you are ready to ask what you would have done in her place. Why a sweet spot?

In France, zinema would say 9.

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What it's about

Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains.

Why 9

Our readingJewish children fleeing in 1943, bodies glimpsed and tears, in the film French schools show: nine, eight with an adult.
reading
Jewish children on the run, in 1943Fanny, twelve, leads eight children towards Switzerland across occupied France: soldiers, checkpoints, bodies glimpsed after a round-up, distant gunfire, and tears. The film shows fear at a child's height, never the horror head-on.
The restSome ten period swear words; nothing else.

What the movie brings

A true story of the Holocaust told for children, by children who make it through.
The courage of a twelve-year-old girl who did not choose to be a leader, and becomes one.
The film French schools show at ten: to watch as a family first, to talk about it.

Watching it together

Before

Explain beforehand why these children are hiding; the film does not say everything, that is for you to say.

After

at 9 and up

Fanny has to decide for eight children: at what point does she become a leader?

See the facts

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A zinema reading from September 19, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made