Norsko, 2015, 32 min
Léa Klaue
30.01.2016 18:00
Gerald, Ruben, Neysa and their friends are children and adolescents who work as wheelbarrow pushers at a market and as prayer boys in a cemetery in the region of Cochabamba in Bolivia. With their own labor union – the Bolivian working children's union UNATsBO - they will present their ideas and defend their right to work in front of the parliament, where a new legislature concerning working children is decided. "To work is to grow" presents some working children's opinion about child labour, but also these children's actual work. Work becomes a tool to empower and grow – through one's good as well as one's bad moments.
Léa was born in 1989 in Bern, grew up in the Swiss Alps where she enjoyed a bilingual education. She completed a Bachelor in Social Anthropology and Media Studies at the Unviversity of Basel and soon knew that she wanted to make films. During this time she travelled many times to Latin America for different reasons, among other to study one semester in Santiago de Chile. Léa completed a Master of Arts in Visual Cultural Studies at the University of Tromsø in Northern Norway with a fieldwork and a film about working children in Bolivia, which is her first film.
Language of dialogues: Spanish
Language of subtitles: English, Czech
Production: University of Tromsø
Camera, script, edit: Léa Klaue
Festivals (selection):
Tromsø, Norway, 2015
Best Graduate Film winner at Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2015, Denver, USA
Astra Film Festival, 2015, Sibiu, Romania
NAFA Nordic Anthropological Film Association Film festival,2015, Warsaw, Poland
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, 2015, Athens, Greece
Kratovo Ethnographic Film Festival, 2015, Kratovo, Macedonia