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Angels Wear White
Directed by Vivian Qu. China / France
Angels Wear White participated in the competition program during the Film Festival in Tromsø (TIFF) in January and won the award FIPRESCI. The award is given by international critics and journalists for good, innovative films. The action in Angels Wear White takes place in a quiet Chinese village where two twelve-year-old girls are raped by a senior official. There is only one witness to this incident: another teenager, Mia, who works at the hotel where the abuses occur. But Mia is staying in the country illegally and is therefore afraid to resign. From the presentation in the festival program we read that the film "gives an unpleasant insight into how systematic violence against women goes under the radar". Qu is a director who has also previously highlighted corruption and abuse of power in China.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Directed by Stephen Nomura Schible.
Japan / USA
During TIFF, the documentary about the composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto was also shown. Sakamoto has won many awards for his film music. Tail is made by Nomura Schible, who in 2003 was a co-producer on Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola), and in 2004 he made the documentary Eric Clapton: Sessions for Robert Johnson. It took the director five years to complete Tail, and along the way, Sakamoto's advanced throat cancer was noted. This documentary follows Sakamoto on his travels around the world where he makes sound recordings, as well as recording his latest album, Async. It also shows Sakamoto's great commitment to disarmament, which made Schible initially curious about him. Sakamoto visited Norway last summer in a unique performance with three other Japanese artists. You can read about this in Ny Tids online archive, see the article «Weather, and being».
Kayayo – The live shopping baskets
Directed by Mari Bakke Riise. Norway
In December, the Academy of Academy chose Bakke Riise's film as one of ten that could be among the five finalists nominated for the Oscar in 2018. Unfortunately, not Kayayo among these when the nominations were announced on January 23. This documentary takes us to Accra, Ghana, where many girls' lives are living shopping carts. They receive small change to carry bags of up to 100 kilos – mostly goods for adult ladies. The girls have not received math education and can therefore neither count together how much money they earn nor know when values have been lost. It is the family's difficult financial situation that sends the children out to work, when they should rather have gone to school. You can read Ny Tid's critique of the film on our website.
The Work
Directed by: Jairus McLeary. USA
I The Work Three men come from outside to work in group therapy in a high-security ward in Folsom State Prison, California. It requires a solid dose of trust from the inmates to line up in front of the camera for the four days of therapy. The film set also had no guarantees as to whether they would succeed with the idea. The documentary has received several awards, and will be shown at the Café Theater in Oslo on 6 February at 19 under the auspices of Doc Lounge and during the HUMAN documentary film festival, also in Oslo, 7. – 13. March.
