• YOUTHS #1 •

Four teenagers from a marginal suburb in Almería (Spain), proud of their Moroccan-Spanish background will see their self-confidence and friendship put to the test on the eighteenth birthday of one of them.

A body is high tide. I cry in the high, middle, and low levels. I stretch my limbs that come and go like a sea wave. This time, the tears took a different path, they didn't run down my face.

Ane spends her afternoons playing on the surroundings of the forest with her cousins, until she comes across Anhangá, an indigenous spirit that surrounds her community. But as she goes deeper into the forest, Ane comes face to face with the real haunting, Walter, a land-grabber financially interested in the region threatens Ane's community, who during the conflict is helped by those who least expect it.

A bird hunt is an opportunity to show, in this short film, the situation of scarcity in the tekoha where the scarce forest surrounded by the monoculture of agribusiness does not provide the species and conditions for hunting. It is also an event that breaks into the sacred logic of everyday life to unveil the enchantment, respect, poetry, and art of life affirmation by young people who insist on experiencing risk from the birds' point of view.

Tsiory, a metropolitan teenager is sent to spend the summer with his grandmother Mirana on Reunion Island. Their meeting is a source of tension. Tsiory discovers an important part of his heritage, that of a Malagasy family marked by the slavery.