I’m looking for a live-action children’s movie which was surely released before 2010 and possibly even before 2000. It centers around a young boy who has a strong bond with an adult female, likely his mother. He ponders about traveling the world. His father is not around. At one point he’s sitting in a small bedroom in a wooden beach house where he browses through a book with black and white pictures of a pilot. The woman points out that it’s his father. At some point, the boy watches over a stretched out plain of dunes, with a docked giant old ship in the distance. A woman is walking nude over those dunes. It’s literally a vague scene, so it could’ve been a dream. One of the last scenes is at the inside of a tall old library with musty books, where an old man gives the boy a tour and takes him to his office where he talks some more. His office has a giant old globe in it. The movie is probably Scandinavian.
It’s not Pelle The Conqueror (1987), Mio, Min Mio (1987) or My Friend Flicka (1943).
Lots of thanks in advance to everyone who tries to help!