Back at the centro escolar, few teachers risk their lives to advise their students on healthy relationships and family planning when gang members are involved.
Noah is drawn to Claire, expressing love for 's.
We talked to "Marcos," who unwillingly lost his virginity to a prostitute in El Salvador at age 15, and we learned that.
We were fortunate enough to have Oscar Orlando Torres, whose story is being told, present at the screening along with the director,Luis Mandoki, Larry Bender Producer and the rest of the cast.
However, he is, sadly, virtually identical to the resourceful young survivor of Iraq's wars in "Turtles Can Fly Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand ," and recalls World War II's Anne Frank and the boy Montgomery Clift befriended in "The Search" or the boy soldiers of the last gasps of Germany and Japan who have recently been portrayed.
It's an outrage in my mind that it wasn't nominated in favor of smarm France's oozy "Les Choristes" and Hollywoodesque-style-over-substance Spain's overblown "Mar Adentro".
The movie that many scenes most brought to my mind was "Bloody Sunday," because both films really make you feel like you're right there in the middle of the action, as horrifying as that would be.
The residents of a rural poor town have the misfortune to be between the rebels and the army.