Human rights are inviolable. However, children and young people face daily discrimination, limit access to education and social protection, harassment of their potential and even threats to their lives. Every year, millions of your peers fall victim to human trafficking, slavery and migration processes.
TEEN SPIRIT is a selection of six stories about children and adolescents from around the world that explain the importance of protecting children's rights as equal members of society, regardless of their origin, place of residence, race, language or religion.
Curated by Sasha Prokopenko
Suitable for people 12 years of age or older
Death, Kidnapping, Child Abuse, Human trafficking
AT HOME
Luisina Anderson
Argentina | 2019, 11 min
Two friends, Camila and Sofia, aged 12, are having breakfast one morning, dancing and playing throughout the house, while on tv a news program investigates a femicide.
IN THIS LAND WE'RE BRIEFLY GHOSTS
Chen-Wen Lo
Taiwan | 2019, 16 min
Myanmar, 2013. Based on actual events, this human tragedy follows a 12-year-old child soldier, Su Su Myat, and her mute brother, Tin Min, who are imprisoned after deserting their first combat mission. Punished with no food or water, Su Su Myat is forced to choose between killing her seriously ill brother for her own survival, or risk dying with him.
EXAM
Sonia K. Hadad
Iran | 2019, 15 min
A teenage girl gets involved in the process of delivering a pack of cocaine to its client, and gets stuck in a weird cycle of occurrences.
BROTHER
Beppe Tufarulo
Italy | 2019, 15 min
Two Brothers, One Dream, a Sea in Between.
COMRADES
Kanas Liu
Hong Kong | 2019, 15 min
The crisis caused by the “Extradition bill” has continued for more than one month since June 2019. As the HK government has not replied to the 5 major demands, citizens march and protest every weekend. The police continually escalates their force against protestors.
On 28th July, 2019, there was a clash between police and protestors in west Hong Kong Island. 49 protestors were arrested. Protesters helped each other to prevent anyone being caught alone.
GOOD NIGHT
Anthony Nti
Belgiu, Ghana | 2019, 20 min
A foreigner in Ghana gets an assignment from his gang to recruit kids for a risky job that will take place later that evening. He finds Prince and Matilda, two lively kids and good friends, and plans to hand them over to the gang. After spending the day with them, he starts to question his decision and how it will affect their future.