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201952 minPGdocumentary

8.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Grandir

201952 minPGdocumentary

8.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

A 34-year-old teacher in the Philippines reflects on her childhood spent as an orphan in a trash dump site in Cebu.

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A 34-year-old teacher in the Philippines reflects on her childhood spent as an orphan in a trash dump site in Cebu.

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Jill Coulondirector

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Prin, a six-year-old from the Jarai community in Vietnam's Central Highlands, embodies childhood innocence. The film features Myu Lat Awng, a teenager in a camp for Internally Displaced Persons in North Myanmar, affected by ongoing border conflicts. Fourteen-year-old Phout, who is deaf and mute, shares his experiences in Laos, while seventeen-year-old Pagna, homeless, dreams of education and travel. At 21, Thookoloa seeks work in Bangkok without Thai identity papers. The narrative concludes with Juliet, a primary school teacher in the Philippines, who overcame her past as an orphan living in a trash dump.

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