Save the Children

Director Ken Loach explores the politics of race, class and charity in a capitalist society in this documentary funded by the Save the Children foundation.

On 24 February, 2022, millions of young lives changed forever as the war in Ukraine began. This film is based on an interview with a 10 year old girl who fled the city of Mariupol with her family.

Sofiya, in her final year of middle school, is making a graduation video for her class. Moving between her Korean-speaking school and Russian-speaking home, she captures her classmates’ faces on a camcorder but always stays behind the camera herself. As she films choir practice and grows close to Nika, who struggles with Korean pronunciation, graduation draws near.

Filmed in the heart of the Gaza Strip in the spring of 2025 and produced by WeWorld as part of a project funded by the European Union, in collaboration with Save the Children, the film tells everyday stories of resistance and humanity: a barber who continues to welcome his clients amid the rubble, restoring dignity and beauty; Wafa, a woman who dedicates her life to children with disabilities or those who have been orphaned, offering care, education, play, and a sense of normalcy. An intimate narrative that illuminates the strength of the community even in one of the world's most fragile and war-torn contexts, like Gaza, where the population has been under constant attack for two years and under blockade for over 18 years.