Young, creative changemakers of the world
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Mila Miller
When Julia, 17, learns that the Mercantour forest, the last refuge of France’s remaining grey wolves, is about to be destroyed, her world tilts. Her grandparents, furious and desperate, rush to the forest to join the protest lines, fighting a battle that already feels lost. Julia stays behind to tend their ancestral garden, trying to steady herself as everything she loves begins to slip away. With Axel, her closest friend, she drifts between disbelief and fragile moments of escape.
One night by the campfire, she breathes in a final pocket of lightness. She dances, lets go, forgets: a brief suspension before the fall.
The news arrives: the last grey wolf has died.
Julia shatters. Her scream, raw, ancient, echoing across fields, becomes a howl for a vanishing world. Yet through the rupture, a fragile resolve stirs: even at her scale, she can still stand, still fight, still matter.
Teo Lister
Haunted by a traumatic past and broken by a life-altering injury, a father fights his way back from the edge of suicide with his children as his primary anchor. Having finally reclaimed his sense of self, he must then face the ultimate test of his resilience when the sudden newsa of his brothers suicide threatens to pull him back into the dark.