unable to except ValueError thrown by mongoengine - django

Question

I'm trying to catch a ValueError that occurs due to the skip parameter equal to a negative number. For example,
try:
MyModel.objects.skip(-1)
except ValueError as error:
print(error)
does not do anything. It doesn't error out with ANY message nor does it do anything else. What I want is just to catch the ValueError and handle it appropriately.
If I except TypeError (that is not raised) instead of ValueError it displays the same behaviour.
The traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/admin/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 35, in inner
response = get_response(request)
File "/home/admin/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 128, in _get_response
response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
File "/home/admin/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 126, in _get_response
response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/home/admin/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py", line 54, in wrapped_view
return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/rest_framework/viewsets.py", line 103, in view
return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 483, in dispatch
response = self.handle_exception(exc)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 443, in handle_exception
self.raise_uncaught_exception(exc)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 480, in dispatch
response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/admin/test_serverside/essences/test_result/views.py", line 273, in get_history
self._format_response_json(serializer.data),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/rest_framework/serializers.py", line 765, in data
ret = super(ListSerializer, self).data
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/rest_framework/serializers.py", line 266, in data
self._data = self.get_initial()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/rest_framework/serializers.py", line 600, in get_initial
return self.to_representation(self.initial_data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/rest_framework/serializers.py", line 683, in to_representation
self.child.to_representation(item) for item in iterable
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/rest_framework/serializers.py", line 683, in <listcomp>
self.child.to_representation(item) for item in iterable
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/mongoengine/queryset/queryset.py", line 99, in _iter_results
self._populate_cache()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/mongoengine/queryset/queryset.py", line 118, in _populate_cache
self._result_cache.append(next(self))
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/mongoengine/queryset/base.py", line 1466, in __next__
raw_doc = next(self._cursor)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/mongoengine/queryset/base.py", line 1573, in _cursor
self._cursor_obj.skip(self._skip)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pymongo/cursor.py", line 491, in skip
raise ValueError("skip must be >= 0")
ValueError: skip must be >= 0