Growing up in... (3x52')
GROWING UP IN... (3x52')
INFORMATION
FR / 2018-2021 / 3x52’ / 4K-HD / French, English, German (to be bought from Arte)
C Chromatiques / Arte GEIE / Various directors
Worldwide rights available
TAGS
Children, teenager, school, Latin America, Europe, India, tradition, friendship, leisure
SYNOPSIS
An initiation series to discover world cultures. Each film centers around a 10 to 14-year-old child from a village community. Through their eyes and childlike words, they create a portrait of their village, their young friends and also the adults, the men and women who transmit their culture from generation to generation. A new way to voyage seen through the eyes of adolescents!
Episodes available in 4K
Robinson Crusoe Island (2021)
It’s on Robinson Crusoe Island, off the coast of Chile, that we meet Tomas, 15, a young man curious about everything around him.
Through Tomas' daily life, we discover his way of life, turned towards the sea. Like his father Mario, he would like to become a fisherman, but he knows that it is a difficult job. So he seriously considered leaving the island to go to the University located on the mainland more than 600 kilometers away.
Ecuador (2019)
Travel to the banks of the Napo River in the Ecuadorean jungle with 13-year-old Juan and his family. He goes to school in canoe, picks larvas in the trees to enjoy them with his family, sells banana with his grand-mother, gets cured by his grand-father the shaman, dives and fishes in the Napo river with his friends.
Episode available in HD
Ladakh (2018)
Padma, 12, shares her time between boarding school, where she lives for up to 3 months without seeing her family, and her village in Ladakh, Gya. This year, Padma and her sister decided to participate in the great GOTCHAC procession for the first time...