Children Underground

Aroview: Disturbing and unanswerable documentation of a group of deperate homeless children (aged between 10 and 16) who call a dirty corner of a train-station in Bucharest, Romania their home.

Talking with disarming candour of their hellish life - begging, stealing, and paint-sniffing - this condemnation of post-Ceausescu Romania offers no easy answers, as the filmmakers track social workers and culpable parents, hoping to find a way out for these damaged innocents. Difficult viewing, but admirably un-glossy.

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