How Are The Kids? (1992)

8.0/10 60 min Documentary Drama

Overview

A UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world. "Hassane" - a malnourished child in Niger needs help from the doctors, but village traditions prohibit it. "Liouba" - a child escapes to the forest after a beating by his alcoholic mother, but the games he plays in the forest mirror his troubles at home. "Boy" - a child faces discrimination as the only white student at his school. "Carmelo" - in Bogota a child living on the streets fights to survive. "Oca" - when his twelve year old brother dies free-diving in the Philippines, seven year old Oca must take his place on the job. "L'enfance de l'art" - children living and playing in a war zone are touched by violence.

Cast

Recommendations

All That Breathes
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee
Showbiz Kids
Deliver Us from Evil
Fuck
Wormwood
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Night Will Fall
A Plastic Ocean
The Class of ‘92
Naqoyqatsi
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars
Seven Up!
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Sidney
Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes
Heart of a Dog
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
And the Oscar Goes To...