How Are The Kids?(1992)

movie - first aired/released 1992-01-01 - 60 min - audience 8.0

Documentary, Drama

Directed by Anne-Marie Miéville, Ciro Durán, Euzhan Palcy, Jean-Luc Godard, Jerry Lewis, Lino Brocka, Rolan Bykov

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.