Laura Prado

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labour in Victorian England.

After centuries of colonization, the dry forests of the Gran Chaco are devastated and on the verge of disappearing. As the Wichí people try to navigate a present marked by mechanized violence and exploitation, the birds of their territory have begun to sing with unusual intensity. Blending fantastical satire and ethnographic experiment, the birds speak to anyone willing to listen.

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labour in Victorian England.