IN EARLY 2020, A PANDEMIC SPREAD ACROSS THE GLOBE.
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IN A MATTER OF DAYS, MILLIONS OF CHILDREN WERE SEPARATED
FROM THEIR SCHOOLS, FRIENDS, RELATIVES,
AND FROM NATURE.
THIS FILM WAS PRODUCED BEFORE THIS DIFFICULT MOMENT,
AND BECAME AN INVITATION FOR US TO IMAGINE THE OUTSIDE WORLD THAT WE WISH FOR.
Let's see! Dig, dig, dig.
Look, I found one!
These are worms.
I saw a worm!
I'll get this one.
-I'll get this one. -And I'll get this one.
Look how many we got!
So many! Did you find anything new?
No.
There's more, grab them.
Would you bury yourself with the worms?
Yes, just like a mole.
And, if worms don't have eyes,
how do they see underground?
I don't know.
You don't? How do you think they do?
Well, I'll have to think like a worm.
I remember!
We have learned from studies
how much of evolution happened
solely because species interact.
Interaction is the foundation of life.
It's a type of communication among all of the species.
We've been living in contact with nature for thousands of years.
Affection has always been present in this process.
We weren't machines that treated nature
in a mechanized way.
But, as we move away from it,
we lose the nature we have in ourselves...
FOUNDER OF ANIA
...which is our human part. We're becoming inhuman.
I think we've become numb,
we've lost the ability to be amazed.
When we are kids, nature amazes us all the time.
When the little ones begin to talk
they have a sense of equality with things.
EARLY CHILDHOOD PRACTICES RESEARCHER
This is called by some psychoanalysts "syncretic thought",
the kind of thought that contains no hierarchy: no single thing is the best.
They have a deep feeling of equality with all beings.
Childhood is a state that makes us capable...
PH.D. IN PHILOSOPHY
...of reinventing nature,
of looking at the world with fresh eyes,
of finding other ways that don't seem obvious.
Now it's time for her shelter.
Each child that arrives at the world
is nature manifesting itself...
PROFESSOR AT THE UNIRIO SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
...again, and again, and again.
And how will those children be treated?
That is the question.
PHILOSOPHER AND WRITER
Our process of urbanization
is based on the premises
of cementing, verticalizing, restricting green areas,
reducing recreation spaces.
And children suffer the most.
We're part of a society that has values...
COORDINATOR OF THE CRIANÇA E NATUREZA PROGRAM
...a concept of care
that doesn't necessarily take nature as a core value.
Our urbanization process
is based on the logic of consumption and privatization of public areas.
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO EMERITA
I'll only let Catherin go out if it's very close by.
I won't let her go alone from here to the square, no.
Not even across the street to buy something.
The space that Catherin has to play in is her house, her bedroom.
In this neighborhood there's a bit of everything.
But kids have nowhere to play,
there's no space where we can go as a family,
no squares.
When I was a kid my mother would say, "Get up and go have breakfast."
I'd get up, eat, wash my face, and leave.
I spent the whole day outside playing catch, hide-and-seek, ball...
Catherin gets up, brushes her teeth, sits on the sofa, and plays on her phone.
Or watches television.
Technology has consumed them too much.
There are no recreational areas for them to play in.
Kids are losing their childhood,
their freedom, their rights,
everything.
Everything.
Urban children
are all somehow institutionalized
when it comes to their time, what they do,
where they play.
There's a time to do this and that.
We end up preventing children
from freely creating an experience of fusion
with the other.
And the other are the trees, the animals, the city,
as much humanity as the city can offer
for a child to move freely in.
What is the itinerary of a child
going from home to school?
They are at home, in a box.
Apartments and houses have very few open-air areas after all.
Then they enter a car, another box,
and arrive at school, entering yet another box.
When we think about it,
we see that children spend 90% of their time indoors.
I was very free. My siblings, my cousins, and I
played all kinds of games:
kites, marbles, street luges...
We were left to our own devices.
It's funny that we had all this freedom
and I'm so strict with Mateus,
I keep him on a tight leash.
And we know how nice it is to play, to run around,
but, because of violence and all that's going on,
we end up not letting Mateus go out on the street.
Mateus has no time outdoors, all things considered.
He can't play during the week.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ANTHROPOLOGIST AND PRIMATOLOGIST
My grandma used to say the river in our neighborhood was clean.
She was always swimming in it.
But now no one goes in, it's become a garbage dump.
Do you or did you use to play on the street?
-No way! -No.
If I play on the street I'll be run over by a car.
When I'm at home all I can do is watch TV
and that's boring.
What is very sad
is that, since there's so much pollution, we can't breathe well.
So, when I go to Tepoztlán, or Colombia,
I breathe as much as I can.
We are exposing children today,
in urban environments,
to a number of challenges, demands,
requirements, constraints that didn't exist before.
Of course urban life has also brought advantages...
PROFESSOR AND DOCTOR IN PUBLIC HEALTH
...access to cultural and educational goods, health care...
But on the other hand, that comes with a high price to pay.
AUTHOR OF LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS
SÃO PAULO BRAZIL
Patricia's head was always filled with thoughts.
Her head was so full
that she needed to find someone
with whom she could share
her thoughts, her creativity.
What's the sense in waking up a child, dressing them in uniform...
PLAY ARTIST AND OBSERVER OF CHILDREN'S CULTURE
...and leaving them in an enclosed space
when their body and everything in them
is telling them to move,
to find nature, to touch the planet,
to walk on the planet,
to turn the planet into a toy,
to grow up nestled by nature?
More and more in the school structure and its spaces,
if there's a square inch of earth, it's torn down
in order to build more infrastructure.
Why is cement better?
Because otherwise we'd need to take care of it, water it
and children would get dirty.
This makes schools start to look like factories or prisons.
And a child that grows for 12 years in a space like this
will leave it to meet a world,
and they'll look at a tree but won't see it,
as it's never been a part of their worldview,
of their life's ecosystem.
Breaking school walls is hard.
Why is that so?
Because the space that is socially constructed
to support this process of knowledge transfer,
the so-called "teaching-learning",
is the classroom.
The outside is the space of nothingness.
CHILD ENVIRONMENT & BEHAVIOR RESEARCHER
NOVO HAMBURGO BRAZIL
PUBLIC PRESCHOOL ERNEST SARLET
Being inside four walls suffocates children.
They cry to express that a space displeases them.
When they repeatedly try to escape from a space...
PRESCHOOL MANAGER
...it means that this space no longer suits their needs.
They look out the window constantly.
Those are all signs,
a different way for children to tell us something
that we couldn't see before.
Any animals up there?
-Can't see anything? -No.
-Isn't the butterfly there? -No.
-Are there trees? -There are trees.
Yeah? And who's going to slide down the slope today?
-Me! -Me, me, me, me!
I love wearing rubber boots.
We're going!
Let's go!
Our experience here, of giving thought to school spaces,
to the school's outdoor areas,
is an experience of a public school system.
Being in contact with nature,
coming outside every day,
playing outdoors
for a substantial amount of time every day.
That's our choice for all preschools in this school system.
Witch!
Where are you?
I'm looking for you.
Witch?
She's not there.
I always think that as rich as a classroom may be...
PRESCHOOL TEACHER
...it's never going to offer
what the outside, the schoolyard, has to offer.
Of course, it has to be a rich yard:
an asphalt sports court is very poor.
Life happens on the outside.
When a child is playing outdoors
all of their systems are engaged:
balance, strength, courage,
everything is there when we're doing an activity outside.
One, two, three, go!
PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
There are no cars coming.
Malaguzzi, who's an Italian educator...
FOUNDER OF PÁTIO VIVO
...says that space is the third educator,
as it conveys and promotes things...
It's great to see how children can find meaning
in very simple elements, they'll create with what they have.
We can guide them a little, but what's truly remarkable
is seeing them transform things and give them new meaning.
It's a fish! And I caught a shark.
This is the shark.
-It's still hot. -Still hot?
Yes, it is.
Let's eat now!
No, you got to wait for it to cool down.
I'm the mommy and you're the daddy
and you're the son and you're the kitty, OK?
This is going to light the fire.
Teamwork. Let's put this in that huge shelter.
Good morning, how are you?
I think you place it like this.
When children play,
they learn things that aren't concepts.
PLAY RESEARCHER
They learn to acknowledge what's alive inside things.
João, look at me!
-Ew. -I'm a furry monster.
In early childhood, they need to form relationships freely.
We can't just set boundaries and say,
"Spiders build webs for this and that reason."
Is that the only reason it builds the web?
How does the spider feel when building a web?
Children relate to that.
They create hypotheses about it.
And it is important that they themselves try every possibility.
It's burning!
For them to learn, understand, unveil knowledge,
their moving bodies have to be involved.
That's what children's culture says.
No content that's revolutionary or deeply transformative
means anything for an inert body.
There's no point in having a revolutionary brain
in a body that's...
meek.
It's sad to watch children running and tripping over their own feet
because they haven't developed their bodies well.
These schoolyards were made flat to be extra safe,
and the opposite happened:
we're seeing children hurt themselves
as they haven't developed well due to overprotection.
When Thiago came to the school
he'd go to the playground and wouldn't move.
He just cried and cried.
TEACHER
Thus his face would get all messy and attract flies.
We'd tell him to swat the flies from his face,
but he cried and wouldn't even move.
Now Thiago goes everywhere.
This is fun!
Last year we got a girl whose parents sold home-cooked food.
She had nowhere to go, so she played on the living room carpet all day.
When she learned how to run and felt safe running
she'd fall down. She'd get clumsy and fall.
One day her mother asked, "Why does she scrape her knee every day?"
I said, "She's learning how to run. Now she has to learn how to fall!"
Really?
If I can see it, I'll just have to climb.
Be careful on those stairs!
PROFESSOR EMERITA IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
This process of "urbanizing" life, so to speak,
that controls urban spaces more and more
puts children's lives under tight control.
Spaces where a child can run,
play, jump around...
INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY
...use their bodies' energy potential,
know their bodies' potential,
this has been tightly restricted during their development.
Today I saw a mother
who'd first been in my office when she was pregnant.
PEDIATRICIAN, PUBLIC HEALTH PHYSICIAN, AND CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST
She asked, "Can I really let my son sit on the grass?"
"Won't he get ill? Can't there be germs there?"
There's this widespread notion
that nature is dirty, dangerous,
and brings disease when, actually, the opposite is true.
Our skin contains billions of bacteria
and it benefits from this exchange with the natural environment.
We know today, scientifically,
that children who live in sterile bubbles
get sick more often later on,
are less prepared to fight infections,
everyday infections can become serious for them
and they tend to have more chronic and autoimmune diseases
such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and other serious diseases.
This conjunction of negative, oppressive factors on childhood,
makes children symptomatic.
They'll become disobedient, sleepless,
they gain weight, misbehave,
do poorly in school.
And instead of looking at this childhood
that is full of oppression
and trying to revert the process
making childhood more natural and healthy,
we introduce another harmful element: medicalization.
"Dad-dy..."
"Daddy, I lo--
I love you."
"Daddy, I love you."
Mateus couldn't complete the activities.
When he was around five, at late preschool,
he started having trouble keeping up with school tasks.
That is a burden on school routine.
We started working with him
to try to reach a diagnosis.
But it's difficult,
because the school has one view, health professionals have another.
Reaching a diagnosis isn't as easy as we first thought.
-Open all of them. -I will.
All of them.
The educational psychologist said it was dyslexia.
The speech therapist said he had ADHD.
The neurologist is examining him
to settle the diagnosis on ADHD or dyslexia.
And my child is there, in the middle of it all.
"Now you have to do this." "Now you do that."
So last vacation we decided to put an end to all therapies:
no speech therapy sessions, no psychologist appointments, nothing!
He spent his vacation playing on the street.
Flying kites, things that we...
We were dead scared but we let him.
One, two, one, two, three, go!
I can do it.
It's amazing! Mateus didn't have a headache once during his vacation.
We didn't have to take him to the ER.
He played around in the cold, barefoot.
Everything went well.
He was really happy.
Where's the stick? It's there.
Children don't get sick on their own.
When we consider the concepts of normality and disease:
what are they in relation to?
Who or what kind of environment are they in relation to?
What are the expectations we have for that child?
When a child falls sick, it's always within a context.
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Ok, the fruit one is boring and so is this one.
I know!
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PEDIATRICS
ALFREDO VOLPI PARK SÃO PAULO - BRAZIL
We're here today to have a very fun walk.
We have to pay attention to the children.
It's all about their time, their discoveries.
They'll grab whatever they want from the ground, OK?
What else is important?
Ah, yes, no phones!
Today we're connecting to the children and to nature.
That means today we'll be unplugged.
-I want one! -Cool, huh?
Let me smell it. Hm, that's nice!
Look how noisy it is!
It's crucial that we understand that time spent in nature
is time invested in the well-being of a family.
FORESTRY ENGINEER
It's not only for children, but also for their parents.
Is it difficult? Yes.
For many people it is, no doubt.
The great challenge is time.
Time and having a mentoring adult.
Someone with a more sensitive view.
So many parents give us this kind of feedback:
"It'd been so long since we'd felt a true connection."
What does it mean to feel a true connection?
To allow yourself to truly connect?
Why don't I feel like I truly connect?
What can being in this outside, free environment...
EDUCATOR EXPERT IN EDUCATION AND NATURE
...allow to happen?
Who's going underneath?
Who's going underneath, who's going above?
Can you reach it? Leo is below, too.
We can even mitigate,
on a smaller scale of families and schools,
this longing for nature.
We can increase the presence of nature on a family level,
or on a school level
with significant changes
that aren't that difficult.
But the biggest challenge
and the one that's going to make a difference from now on
for children in 10, 15, 20 years' time
is the urban environment.
We need cities that have more green integrated.
We need friendlier cities.
Want to try?
These tadpoles aren't helping.
Did you see the tadpoles?
AMADEU DECOME SQUARE SÃO PAULO - BRAZIL
Some water... Here.
When my daughter was three months old
we moved to a house in front of a square
and she began to use that area as she grew.
BOA PRAÇA MOVEMENT
When she was four years old
I realized she'd bloomed, learned thousands of things:
to walk, climb, talk,
and the square had simply decayed. That bothered me.
I decided I wanted to do something.
That's when I started looking into what we could do and how.
This was another picnic.
We began to have picnics regularly in the neighborhood squares.
Every last Sunday of the month.
And we arrived at a motto:
to try and leave the square better than when we came in.
As we used the squares for our picnics
we realized we could make several improvements ourselves,
among neighbors.
Talents sprung as we got to know the people.
There were also structural issues, related to mobility,
water draining, more complex tasks.
That's when we started to look for alternatives
and ask for more from the public authorities.
And we began to look into what could be done
to get those improvements.
Whenever there's a picnic I'm happy
because I know I'll get in touch
with all this nature thing again.
When I come here, I realize I was very apart
from this whole other world.
I look at one side and I see too many cars, too much noise.
I look at the other, I see a bunch of trees, a small forest.
That's what I like more.
Almost every time I go to a square to do some work
I ask the question, "Who owns a square?"
There are usually two answers:
"Everyone" or "nobody".
Which I think are similar answers.
Because "everyone" and "no one" are never "me".
But I think my children consider this "their" square.
All right, let's make a... Right here, look.
A city that can give the streets back to the children, nowadays,
is a city with lower levels of violence,
a city that has public spaces
where there's a balance between traffic flow
and use of streets for recreational purposes.
Being outdoors on the streets
is easily related to a good quality childhood
and also good city management.
COORDINATOR OF THE CRIANÇA E NATUREZA PROGRAM
For a neighborhood to become a community,
public spaces have to be the meeting point.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
If they aren't, there'll never be a spirit of community in a neighborhood.
When they have nowhere to meet outside the house,
children and teens stay inside,
turning private spaces into collective ones.
And public spaces that, in general, are grey areas...
R&D DIRECTOR
...can become focal points
of community danger.
There are currently nine neighborhoods that concentrate
50% of the green area in Santiago.
And all the others, more than 40 neighborhoods,
share the other half of the green area.
IDA B. WELLS HOMES CHICAGO - USA
BILLINGS DAM SÃO PAULO - BRAZIL
My parents... Children's parents in general
are usually very worried about safety.
Wherever you go, there's a robbery or something similar.
My father doesn't let me go out.
When I ask him, he either tells me to ask my mother
or says nothing, just shakes his head.
But I like playing very much. I like to be free.
No way I'd stay inside doing nothing.
In our neighborhood we used to have...
we still have very few recreational areas.
We, as kids, always tried...
PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATOR
...to find spaces to play in wherever they should be.
Where we'd like them to be:
our street, our field...
Sailing in São Paulo is already unusual,
but sailing in the outskirts of São Paulo is extraordinary.
When I started sailing
it changed my view of the world.
-I'd been afraid of dipping my feet... -Me too.
...or hands in the water.
Before I started sailing, I thought the dam was garbage.
It was dirty, gross, smelly,
full of trash.
-What's this one called? -Mast.
Mast. And this one?
Boom.
-And this one? -Sail.
You've noticed that this boat has no motor, right?
This is a sailboat, it's pushed forward by the wind.
When I'm on a boat, I feel much freer, more peaceful.
We let go of all negativity we were carrying.
It puts you in a completely different mood.
It's a moment that's all yours.
Sailing, to me, is above all a sport.
It's initially all about connecting to your body,
learning things, overcoming difficulties.
We build, little by little, this relationship with the boat,
with sailing, with occupying the dam,
with looking around our territory.
This neighborhood is already perfect to me.
I'd like it to have a few more trees, though.
And not to be as polluted as it is.
What I'd really like would be for this dam to be very clean.
So clean that we'd be able to drink the water.
For previous generations it was clear,
especially for people who lived close to nature,
that we and nature are totally interdependent.
What happens to plants, animals, and the whole environment
will also happen to us.
Over time, we came to lose this perception.
We feel that what happens to nature
won't necessarily happen to us.
If our water is contaminated,
I'll drink from my plastic water bottle, no problem.
The air may be polluted, but not inside my house,
only outside.
And we know that isn't true.
But we have a way of thinking, an "operating system",
that says we don't depend on nature for our well-being.
That is the great issue.
The question that remains for all of us is,
"Am I being a good ancestor?"
"How much are my actions of today
defining my descendants' lives?"
NATURE LEARNING FACILITATOR
My own descendants and the ones of my species.
There was a study done a few years ago
where children were asked to draw what they thought represented nature.
Children from various locations.
These children were five to eight years old.
The conclusion was very interesting.
The Herero are a people that live in villages between Namibia and Angola.
Some Herero children, when drawing three things
that looked like nature,
drew not only the sun, but their hand, foot, mother...
Yanomami children, who are closer to us, also drew their hand, foot,
their own mother, themselves.
Children from Kentucky, New York, and São Paulo
drew a sun, a tree, a bird.
That occurred regularly.
Not because of the children,
but because of a culture that involves and constitutes them,
which makes them think that nature is the "other".
MEXICO CITY MEXICO
We need to realize that Earth is our best teacher.
Nature makes things perfectly
and the universe is proof of that.
So why not put children...
FOUNDER
...inside a living lab that is a garden, so that they can learn from it?
Yay. I love this.
-This one? -Yes, let's water the plants.
Where are the worms?
-They're in their homes. -Why?
So we can see them, take care of them,
they can give us their poo to feed the plants, remember?
There's no sun shining on them there.
-Exactly. -Is worm poo hard?
Look at their poo.
What do you think?
I didn't know they pooed.
Of course they poo!
I want to touch them.
-Me too! -Give it to me!
I can feel it.
Through autonomous work on the garden,
children acquire some authentic ecology.
They start to watch the garden's needs themselves.
For example, when the bucket of sifted compost is empty,
they'll decide to sift more compost themselves,
because that's what the garden needs.
Children learn to take care
of their habitat, of the natural world,
and, in a way, they learn to take care of themselves.
XOCHIMILCO LAKE MEXICO CITY
This whole process brings a great feeling,
because you plant the seeds, then transplant them,
then you wait, it grows, and you can eat it.
It's very important to know where things come from.
Otherwise, we don't know where we come from.
We come from the earth,
not the other way around.
PIER
Here, in Mexico valley,
the Xochimilca started to build chinampas,
which are islands made with mud and sticks,
to open a space of fertile land for them to plant.
So I began to tell the children
where their agricultural tradition comes from.
Look, here we have parsley,
mustard, rutabaga, broccoli,
mizuna, cauliflower, borage, and beetroot.
I've worked with several generations,
since they're 18 months till 12 years old.
And the children that leave here when they're 12
feel very connected to nature,
because they feel it's part of their lives,
part of their school, their routine.
This one's ready to pick.
Slowly. Right.
BELO HORIZONTE BRAZIL
The "de-naturalness" of cities,
the confinement lived by most children and teenagers,
the restriction of space,
impoverishes teens' life experiences a lot, in my opinion.
PRINCIPAL AT ESCOLA DA SERRA
They are used to thinking, as asserted by our consumer society,
that life depends on hoarding a huge pile of stuff.
To me, going camping means being in a place
where you're away from society
and have some time to think.
Here in school there's recess and we have our phones.
We play mobile games and use our phones while we're talking.
When we were camping, there was nothing else to look at,
so we looked people in the eye.
And I realized it's a whole other experience
to talk while watching TV or looking at your phone
instead of having just you and the other person.
I thought it was pretty cool.
SERRA DO CIPÓ MINAS GERAIS - BRAZIL
A few years ago, some parents and teachers insisted
we should try to use the camping trip
to deliver some school content.
I asked, "Why formal curriculum subjects?"
There's a lot of learning here. Life learning.
I start feeling maybe sweat, maybe mosquitoes, I don't know.
Be careful, I don't want to eat fingers!
Adults think we're capable of much less
than we actually are.
I think one thing that changed
is that I got much more self-confident.
I felt much more independent.
When I arrived, I saw it was all open space.
We could do whatever we wanted: walk, run...
We're free, basically.
It's the opposite of being in the city.
It's a great feeling:
being really free.
Everything's so beautiful here, and so many people don't even know it.
That's very sad.
This is how the world originally is.
If you don't know a place
that hasn't changed in a million years,
you don't really know the world.
You may have been to all the world's capitals,
but if you've never been to a place like this,
you don't know the world.
Midnight and our tent was disassembled on the floor.
Marcia was asleep. Then Edivaldo arrived.
That was around 4 a.m.
He said, "You kids are making too much noise!"
Then we told him our tent was disassembled.
SALTO MORATO RESERVE PARANÁ - BRAZIL
Dude!
A spider!
Four, five, six, seven...
Hey, look at this!
Hah! I want to see who's brave enough
to find out if this is soft.
-It's soft. -It's soft?
-Is this trash? -No, it's mud.
When we bring a child here
and try to make it an amazing, memorable experience for them...
ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SALTO MORATO RESERVE
...they leave with what I call a warm heart.
Because they had an incredible day that they'll remember as adults.
That’s transformative for a child.
That may connect them to conservation.
Nature is everything to us.
I feel free
to do so much:
play, run...
To me, nature is...
home.
When I get up in the morning,
the first thing I do is talk to my plants.
I tell them nice things like,
"You look so beautiful!" "How you've grown!"
"I'll water you so that you can grow
to be as tall as trees."
They're like my children,
they have a life of their own.
In my heart, I feel like they talk to me.
MY LITTLE NATURE
There was a time I was trying to define "environment",
give it an actual definition.
I was in a meeting with children and a girl asked,
"Joaquín, are the butterflies in my stomach part of biodiversity?"
I said, "Wow!"
That's when I understood that the environment
is not just the natural and social surroundings,
but also the emotional context.
No one, with all their intelligence, technology, or money,
will substitute what children feel when they climb a tree.
Or when they're running around on the grass,
fall down, then get up and everything's fine.
They see their parents are calm and say, "Wow, this place is for me."
The question is how to gather efforts
to begin to rescue, value nature
and take real action to make nature more accessible to children.
Children Land is a space that adults are giving children
to take care of, create life, play
and generate well-being for themselves, others, and nature,
with their own language and colors,
sharing messages.
Where does this come from?
From my backyard, my childhood. That was the first flower.
COMMUNITY TIERRA DE LOS NINOS - TINI LITTLE RANGERS
WELCOME
It ate it!
I live in the district of Comas, in Peru's capital, Lima.
There are few green areas and lots of dust here...
TINI LITTLE RANGERS
...and it's on a hillside.
The neighborhood is a little dangerous.
Here, children don't have areas to play in.
So they need to seek other areas to distract themselves or play.
You have to mix the soil to plant.
We separate it and make another line.
Since I was a child, I wanted to create a green area.
I felt it should be a place to be shared.
So I started to paint rocks with children from my neighborhood.
We were 10, then 15,
and, in the end, we were 50 children.
My father wanted to kick us out of the house, as we were so messy.
We started cleaning this whole area.
No one believed there'd be a small park here.
It looks like a family of worms.
Worms are a protein source for the chickens.
We consider this space the starting point
to make our society better.
If the environment is well, you'll be well
and so will other people.
SHARE
HAVE FUN
GOOD MORNING!
IMAGINE - BLOOM PLAY
Imagine living in a world where everyone is happy.
How would that be?
I'd like very much if the city
had trees,
green areas, many types of plants.
I'd like the hills to have plants on them,
then they would be green.
It'd be prettier that way. And more colorful.
We could have a rainbow to improve the background. With the sun...
Yes, it'd be much better.
I'd also like for the city to be clean
so we wouldn't get sick,
we'd live better.
I'd also like for us to have a beautiful scenery.
Yes.
BE PART OF THIS MOVEMENT
THIS FILM WAS PRODUCED BEFORE THE ONSET OF THE PANDEMIC.
WE'VE SINCE HAD VIDEO CALLS WITH CHILDREN WHO WERE PART OF THE FILM
TO CHECK HOW THEY WERE FARING DURING THIS PERIOD.
It's one thing to enjoy being alone
when it's by choice.
Everybody likes being alone from time to time.
But if that isolation comes as something inevitable,
it gradually turns into...
a burden.
This is me, in front of the mirror.
I'm not afraid.
I'm afraid of dying from it, but not of catching it.
At first, I thought it was just a measly cold,
but later I realized people were dying from it.
At first, I was thrilled, I said to myself,
"Yes, I'm free from that torture!"
But now, I want to go back to school. I never thought I'd say such a thing.
I miss going out to play, I miss my school,
my friends from school.
I can't even see my friends who live nearby.
So this is my house.
This is the kitchen,
here we put some lettuce and kale to dry.
Now we have to wash everything beforehand,
because it might be infected.
But I never thought it would last as long as it has.
I thought we'd stay home for like two months, tops.
I do my homework here.
I use this TV set to follow the news about the pandemic in my country,
whether cases are dropping or rising.
Maybe they'll find the cure, or maybe things will stop getting worse.
After all, we've had so many surprises in 2020.
My brother watches TV here.
I hardly ever play with my dolls anymore,
nor with my brother, unless I don't have my phone.
And that's all.
This is a yoga mat. I've been using it to exercise.
Right now, I think it's unfair when they say,
"Get away from the computer, put down your cellphone,"
because if you do, you won't have a social life,
you won't be able to see anyone, including relatives.
These are my best buddies.
They help me pass the time, they keep me company.
These plants are as handsome as I am!
What I miss the most is swimming in the lake.
Going to the park or to the pool.
Touching the plants, talking to them,
touching the water,
listening to crackling fire.
I think that when I come out of this pandemic,
spending time out of the house is something I'll value more,
as well as being around other people,
and everything else I had before.
The first thing I'll do when the pandemic is over
is hug everyone I know.