“The boat was like a little fly in the sea, in two­metre high waves. We just drifted without any food or water.” Sharaf, 17, is one of thousands of boat­refugees who have arrived in Gran Canaria over the past couple of years.

Sharaf is completed during the spring of 2012. It is the third and final part in a series of animated documentaries about children and young people in difficult situations by David Aronowitsch and Hanna Heilborn.