LOS NIÑOS LOBOS (THE WOLF KIDS)
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In Cuba, 60 years after the Revolution, two teenage brothers live in their own dystopian universe. The boys live with their father, a veteran of the Angolan war. While they get involved in war games where innocence loses ground, their father’s ghosts take them away from reality, leading them to a future full of uncertainties.
Los Niños Lobos precedes Entre Perro y Lobo (Between Dog and Wolf).
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About the Director
Otávio Almeida is a documentarist and photographer from Piauí, Brazil. He graduated from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (EICTV) in Cuba, specializing in documentary direction. He studied at theParque Lage School of Visual Arts (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He also participated in the IDFA Academy in 2019 and the Opening Scenes laboratory at the Visions du Reél 2020. His latest films, The Crossing and The Wolf Kids, had their world premieres at IDFA in 2019 and at Visións du Réel in 2020, respectively. A retrospective of his work was also screened at the 20th Doc Buenos Aires this year. Otávio collaborates with media and NGOs that work with social and environmental issues, such as Greenpeace, Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), TV Futura, TV Sesc,Itaú Cultural, among others. His work as a photographer was exhibited at the IV São Paulo Photography Exhibition and at the X São Paulo Architecture Biennial. He was also selected at RUMOS do Itaú Cultural (2017) with the project Sentirgrafia, a project dedicated to photographic language research for people with visual deficiency.
