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Children Underground
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Children Underground

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Bucharest's subway stations are home to a floating population of street children who sniff paint from plastic bags to numb hunger and cold. The film follows five of them, ranging from young teenagers to a girl barely out of childhood, as they beg, steal, and fight to survive years after the fall of Ceausescu's regime left them without family or state support. The camera stays close through arguments, overdoses, and rare moments of tenderness between the kids themselves, who form makeshift families to replace the ones they lost or fled. Interviews reveal the abuse and institutional neglect that pushed each of them underground, while return visits to parents and orphanages show how thin the line is between the street and the system meant to save them from it. There is no narrator and no score standing between the audience and what the camera catches. The result is a document of a specific failure, the collapse of communism's aftermath falling hardest on children nobody was watching.