Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya (2020) is a wartime drama you can watch online on iFILM. A small village tucked in the French Pyrenees, the closing years of the fighting. Jo, a teenage shepherd, stumbles onto a secret: a remote farmhouse is sheltering Jewish children, and someone has to walk them over the mountains into Spain.

Ben Cookson directed the film from Michael Morpurgo's novel, the writer behind War Horse. Jo is played by Noah Schnapp of Stranger Things; Anjelica Huston is the widow hiding the children, and Jean Reno takes the role of a village elder caught between his neighbors and the orders he's given. Once a German garrison moves in under a watchful officer (Thomas Kretschmann), every climb into the hills turns into a gamble with death.

This is quiet cinema about ordinary people making a dangerous choice without saying much about it — no battle scenes, just a steady pulse of risk. A good fit for anyone who likes intimate Resistance stories and coming-of-age leads. Stream Waiting for Anya (2020) online on iFILM.