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City of Children (12+)

United Kingdom, England, 2019, colour, 16 min.
Director: Arantxa Hernández
What is it like to grow up in a place that has been forgotten by everyone? This film is a portrait of the youth of an estate in the north of England. Tyler, a 16-year-old boy who has never attended school, guides us through this place where we will meet a series of diverse young characters, each making their own way in the estate. Combining poetical and observational styles, this film provides a multifaceted experience, allowing the viewer to reflect on Tyler's future and on England's past.

Arantxa Hernández

Arantxa Hernández

studied Journalism and Audiovisual Communication in Madrid and began covering political and social issues for a national newspaper. After a course in Creative Documentaries at the EICTV school in Cuba, she decided to focus her career on film. One year later, she was accepted into the Masters of Documentary Directing program at the National Film and Television School of the United Kingdom (NFTS), where she has made 4 short films. Among them, the documentary Ahora que puedo, an intimate portrait of Diego, a young man who has spent his entire life in the FARC Colombian guerrilla; and City of Children, a highly evocative portrait of a lost generation in England. As a director, she is especially interested in exploring how the circumstances into which you are born can determine the rest of your life. Her starting point is always curiosity, and her goal is to get audiences to empathize with people and situations that might be hard for them to understand.

FILMOGRAPHY

Ahora que puedo, 2019; City of Children, 2019.
United Kingdom, England, 2019, colour, 16 min.
Director: Arantxa Hernández
What is it like to grow up in a place that has been forgotten by everyone? This film is a portrait of the youth of an estate in the north of England. Tyler, a 16-year-old boy who has never attended school, guides us through this place where we will meet a series of diverse young characters, each making their own way in the estate. Combining poetical and observational styles, this film provides a multifaceted experience, allowing the viewer to reflect on Tyler's future and on England's past.