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Wilbert - gadedreng i Nicaragua

Stig Nielsen

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Gigi, Monica... & Bianca

Yasmina Abdellaoui, Benoit Dervaux, 1997

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Migas rejse

René Bo Hansen, 2002

10-year-old Miga lives with his family on Mongolia's endless plains. His sister runs away from home, when the family is hit by disaster, and Miga decides to sneak on board the night train to the capital to search for her. In the big city he becomes friends with street kids.

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Ønskebørn

Birgitte Stærmose, 2009

On the borderline of documentary and fiction »Out of Love« depicts post war Kosovo. Children are selling cigarettes on the streets in order to survive. At nighttime - with Pristina as the murky setting - the children tell their moving stories about loss, fear and the hope for a brighter future.

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Gadens børn

Anja Dalhoff, 1991

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Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue

Nabil Ayouch, 2000

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Outside

Olha Zhurba, 2021

Roma, a 13-year-old street kid neglected by his family and the state, becomes a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution in 2014. His story traverses the years he spent on the streets of revolutionary Kyiv and after his release from the orphanage, left to face the outside world with nothing. As Roma sets out to build an adult life, it seems that his future has already been decided.

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Må jeg se dine papirer

Frode Højer Pedersen

Olivia was 15 years old when she had Renato. Today, 12 years on, she is dead. Renato lives on the streets of Rio de Janeiro with his grandmother and deaf-mute uncle, whom he helps sell flowers in the streets.

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Something Better to Come

Hanna Polak, 2014

Ten-year-old Yula has but one dream - to escape the largest garbage dump in Europe and lead a normal life. For 14 years, Oscar-nominated director Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the largest garbage dump in Europe, 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin's Russia. 'Something better to come' is Yula's story and is a dramatic cinema vérité story about coming of age, and maturing to the point of taking destiny into one's own hands.

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A Year of Hope

Mikala Krogh, 2017

The documentary is a coming-of-age story about a group of boys from the streets of the capital of the Philippines, Manila, who get a chance to change their lives. They are offered a one-year stay at the Stairway Project Rehabilitation Centre on an island far away from the city which, in comparison to their past lives, is a true paradise. Many of the boys have been sexually abused, are addicted to drugs, have been victims of domestic violence and have witnessed killings.

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Jernbanebørnene fra Kolkata

Benjamin Schildknecht Kodboel, Daniel Myrup

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Drømmepigen

Frode Højer Pedersen, 1998

'Dream Girl' - on street girls in Brazil. The 11-year-old Tatiana has run away from home. Now she lives on the street with Paloma and a group of children.