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Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Remastered.
Language
None
Description
A fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape her miserable existence. Emotionally scarred by the torment and neglect of her abusive father, the girl collapses outside the shop of the lonely and disillusioned 'yellow man'. As he tenderly nurtures her back to health, an unspoken romance flowers between them, awakening in each of them feelings of love.
3) Sun children
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Persian
Description
When a gang of street children in Tehran are hired by a dangerous criminal to find a treasure buried close to a school, they enroll in the school to gain access and as they are exposed to an education, they begin to see a future beyond day-to-day survival.
4) Trash
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
When two trash-picking boys from Rio's slums find a wallet in amongst the daily detritus of their local dump, little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet's return, the boys, Rafael and Gardo, realize that what they've found must be important.
5) Noble
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Christina Noble, who leaves the slums of her childhood in Ireland to work for the welfare of the street children of Vietnam.
6) Chop shop
Series
Criterion collection volume 1067
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"For his acclaimed follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a slice of New York City rarely seen on-screen: Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being redeveloped off the map. It's within this precarious ecosystem that twelve-year-old Ale (Alejandro Polanco) must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A young boy looks for his uncle after a mysterious illness strikes his village and leaves him an orphan. As he tries to survive and learn about the world around him, he finds a job and returns to teach the elders of his village about truth and compassion.
8) Chop shop
Series
Criterion collection volume 1067
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Living and working in an autobody shop in Willets Point, Queens, twelve-year-old orphan Alejandro hustles on and off the streets to help him and his sister survive.
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