The Windermere Children is a 2020 British biographical drama television film written by Simon Block and directed by Michael Samuels.
Based on the experience of child survivors of the Holocaust, it follows the children and staff of a camp set up on the Calgarth Estate in Troutbeck Bridge, near Lake Windermere, England, where the survivors were helped to rehabilitate, rebuild their lives, and integrate into the British society.
[3][4][5][6] Although set in the Lake District, the production was actually filmed in locations around Northern Ireland.
[7] In October 2020, The Windermere Children won the Best European TV Movie of the Year prize at Prix Europa.
A jury member commented "This story gives hope, told with a twinkle in the eye, making the children's stories, their traumas and their losses manageable for the viewer.