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This film, presented as a 52-minute sequence shot, is filmed entirely by drone. One year after the riots that shook Nouméa and the surrounding area in 2024, 6 Kilometers chooses to give voice to those who are too seldom heard: young people. In a long, poetic aerial tracking shot between Place des Cocotiers and the summit of Ouen Toro, three young adults, Rose, Alfa, and Iouri, guide us through their thoughts, emotions, and daily lives in a fractured territory.
Up until the middle of the 19Th century, poverty stricken mountain farmers from the Ticino area of Switzerland frequently sold their children to Milan as chimney sweeps or spazzacamini. That is also young Giorgios fate. He is forced to climb through pitch black chimneys, flinging down the soot with his bare hands. But he does not lose heart. Together with his buddies sharing in the same misery, he establishes the association of Black Brothers. They stick together, struggling against their penury and getting involved in fights with the street gangs of Milan. The film tells of the gripping adventures of the chimney sweep boys and their spectacular escape back to their native land.
