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In HOME IS WHERE YOU FIND IT, 16-year-old Alcides Soares tells his story as a boy living alone in
the world after losing both parents of his to AIDS.

The King of Tibet, living in exile in Dharamsala in Northern India, is 16-year-old Namgyal Wangchuk
Trichen Lhagyari.

Jayshree Janu Kharpade of India was taken out of school at 7 years old so that she could raise her four younger brothers and contribute to her parents’ labor at a brick kiln site.

In DISPLACED BUT NOT DEFEATED, BYkids filmmaker María Ceballos Paz powerfully recounts how the consequences of civil war extend well beyond the battlefield. María, a 16-year-old Colombian girl, has been living in displacement for the past nine years as a result of Colombia’s civil war.

Faiza Almontaser is a 17-year-old senior at Brooklyn International High School.

In MY BEAUTIFUL NICARAGUA, BYkids filmmaker Edelsin Linette Mendez showcases the effects of climate change, such as increasing temperatures, erratic rainfall, and the resulting fungal epidemic known as “la roya” on her family’s generations-old coffee farm. Edelsin’s family, and many more like hers, have suffered losses of up to 50% of their typical crops, and USAID estimates that Central American coffee production as a whole will fall by up to 40% in the next few years.