Cha-Ci-Pe

Director invites the kids to become his filmmaking partners: he teaches them how to operate a movie camera, and encourages them to film the environment in which they live. The director introduces the children to various filmmaking crafts, and thus they aren't limited to merely capturing reality. Together they create animation, shoot skits they have thought up by themselves and experiment with film materials all the while revealing many things about their lives. In the kids hands, the camera is a toy, but one which breaks down the walls separating two worlds. It is a tool that enables them to confide their secrets, to cope with powerlessness and unexpected sorrow.