I really love this film - it has been one of my favourites from the studio for years. But it wasn't online for the longest time. The use of light and depth is wonderful, and I recognize much of what it shows as happy (or not so happy) childhood memories. Probably it's not so much a children's film, though it's from the perspective of a child. Also, it doesn't seem to have an especially happy ending... actually, it seems downright tragic, although I couldn't find anybody anywhere discussing it. My interpretation is that it suddenly jumps forward a decade or two, to a decidedly less happy time - and the whole preceding film is perhaps the young lad's last, favourite memory.

It's a shame that the director made no other films. But some others it reminds me of are:

The Lodgers of an Old House (1988)
Forest Tales (1997)
There Lived a Tree (1996)