How to be young — Season 1, Episode 2: Lithuania
42 min • 1 season, 5 episodes
Episode synopsis
Following massive demonstrations in neighboring Belarus, the Lithuanian border has been flooded with Belarusian students fleeing Europe's longest-serving dictator Lukashenko. Some of them are severely traumatized, but 19-year-old Sabina works non-stop on the resistance's YouTube channel. In a Lithuanian army base she meets the young Petrus, who volunteered out of fear of the Russians.
About How to be young
Margriet van der Linden sketches the often shocking and moving world of European young people. We live in an era rife with concerns: polarization, political instability and oppression. What do young Turkish women do when they are assaulted, raped or shot? What is the situation with the enormous group of Belarusian students in Lithuania who fled the violence of dictator Lukashenko? What inspires the thousands of Moroccan boys who illegally cross the border with Spain every year and for whom hardly anyone is waiting? And how are the Hungarian youth doing, who have to deal with a leader who is slowly but surely throwing democracy overboard?