Tough Bond (2013) Full Movie
As traditional Kenyan villages give way to exploding city slums, community bonds dissolve and youth turn to the street. Followed over three years, four kids addicted to huffing glue create
Directors: Austin Peck, Anneliese Vandenberg
As traditional Kenyan villages give way to exploding city slums, community bonds dissolve and youth turn to the street. Followed over three years, four kids addicted to huffing glue create their own fierce family in this unflinching look at modern Kenya. Tough Bond is the story of Sinbad, Akai, Peter and Anto. The film is told through their eyes, the eyes of four street children neglected by their communities, living in the cracks of society, bursting with enormous strength to invent a new way to survive on Kenya's streets. Calling themselves "Survivors", the children have created a new tribe for themselves. A new identity rooted in their daily hustle, humor, and struggle bound by an addiction to huffing glue to cope with the growing difficulties of street life.
Reviews
I screened Tough Bond at the 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival. Vandenberg & Peck spent three years in Kenya, filming the street kids and digging behind the shiny veneer of Nairobi to understand why 4 young people left their indigenous villages and end up sniffing glue. The cinematography is exquisite and never comprises their dignity. Tough Bond also exposes the hypocrisy of the Kenyan government, which claims that the problem of street youth is in the past. The cycle of dependency. according to Peck, is never ending and the film shines a spotlight on a problem which is not well understood. I strongly recommend this film and can't wait for the next project by these first-time filmmakers!
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