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| Year |  | |
2001 |
| Original title | | |
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| Original lang. | | |
French |
| Country | | |
Canada |
| Genre | | |
Documentary |
| Length | | |
1:20 |
| Director | | |
Daniel Cross |
| Writer | | |
Daniel Cross |
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  8.7/10
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Roach has been living on the streets since age 14, he's rebellious, loud and defiant. As part of S.P.I.T., Roach has been given a camera to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent, because there's a war against squeegee kids. The RoachCAM is positioned behind enemy lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, being hunted by police. The viewer is forced to look at the living reality of Roach and his friends: Hungry on the streets in one of the world's most prosperous countries, classified as thugs, criminals, and enemies. These kids refuse to obey, assimilate, and conform to society's values - their beliefs and realities are scarred into their flesh in the form of piercings, tattoos, track marks, bruised veins, rotting teeth, gangrene, scurvy...
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