Bunso: The Youngest

The poignant story of three children in a city jail in the Visayas region of the Philippines. Rain is a welcome gift for Tony, Diosel and Bunso. It means that they get the chance to have a shower in the prison courtyard and wash their clothes. But if the rain doesn’t stop in the evening, it becomes impossible to sleep because the roof leaks and everything gets drenched. Tony, Diosel and Bunso have to share a room with 160 other children and teenagers in a prison that lacks nearly everything. In the next room are adult prisoners: criminals convicted of rape, murder or drug dealing. Tony is thirteen, Diosel and Bunso are only eleven. Everyday, they struggle to survive in jail. They are used to fighting as they grew up in the slums amongst violence and misery. Their often neglected and overwhelmed parents see prison as a welcome educational system for their children. In the sub-human world of the city jail, the children speak about their life and their dreams with a rare mix of childhood innocence and the cunning of little criminals; despair and hope of a better future. (DOK.fest München)