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Venezuela's Lost Children: Surviving a Country in Collapse
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Venezuela's Lost Children: Surviving a Country in Collapse

52 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Millions have fled Venezuela's economic collapse, leaving an estimated one million children behind. This film follows two single mothers over several months in the barrio Santa Rosa de Agua, where hospitals have stopped functioning and children die from hunger. Carolina runs a foundation feeding local kids but has sent her own daughter, Victoria, to a children's home for safety, a shelter where traumatized children who haven't seen their parents in years struggle with feelings of abandonment. Kiara describes selling drugs, stealing, and prostitution to feed her children, while her 14-year-old son Yorbenis has joined a gang and stands on the edge of committing his first killing. When Kiara decides to leave for Colombia, she takes her younger children but leaves Yorbenis behind, fearing he will be murdered by rival gangs or police while she's gone. Shot on location in the barrio, the film stays close to its subjects rather than offering outside analysis, letting the mothers' own accounts carry the story of a country's disintegration.