Playground

Name: Playground
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-01-03

Documentary16m

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Storyline

Brought by poverty, Petang and Cereno are driven into the realm of child labor to live by the clock. Film Weekly follows their journey as they step back to breathe and to be children once again.

Details

DirectorJL Burgos

ReleasedJan 3, 2017

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Studios

Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER)Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR)Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD)Rural Missionaries of the Philippines - Northern Mindano Region (RMP-NMR)European Union

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

5 fresh · 1 rotten

C.H. Newell

RTFather Son Holy GoreMay 1, 2019

Like a brutal visual metaphor for the age old question, usually asked in fear, or maybe to instil some: it's (insert time here), do you know where your children are?

Pere Vall

RTFotogramasMay 25, 2018

A type of terror that we have seen, and suffered through, like in some of Michael Haneke's films... [Full review in Spanish]

Alberto Luchini

RTEl Mundo (Spain)May 25, 2018

A film as necessary as it is harrowing... [Full review in Spanish]

Jordi Costa

RTEl Pais (Spain)May 25, 2018

In his first fictional feature, Polish director Bartosz M. Kowalski is inspired by true events, but presents a film incapable of bringing anything to light. [Full Review in Spanish]