The Wild Years

Director: 
Ventura Durall
Country: 
Duration: 
70Min
Year of production: 
2013
Movies language: 
Cinematography: 
Mauro Herce
Sound: 
Diego Pedragosa and Sergi Cameron
Editing: 
Marti Roca
Production: 
Nanouk Films
Synopsis: 

In Addis Abeba, the Ethiopian capital, over 270.000 street kids live without their parents and are almost forgotten by law and society. Daniel, a boy from the countryside, is 9 years old when he arrives in the city. He meets Habtom and Yohannes, both aged 12, who live in an abandoned car. At first, they don’t accept him in their group but eventually become friends. Together, they share the hard life in the city, lead adult lives, although they are still children. But they are smart and inventive enough to manage to survive.

 

 

Projections:

Senghor

Wednesday 9/04 - 5.30PM

CIVA

Thuesday 8/04 - 6.30pm

Bio Director: 

Ventura Durall was born in 1974 in Barcelona. He graduated from the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC). In 2000 he established the production company Nanouk Films with the intention to create an artistic platform of reference in the Catalan and European audiovisual scene and to create new communication channels between the documentary arena and fiction films. He is Head of the Documentary’s Department at ESCAC.

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