Archive Cinema City 2009.
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
The film shows "the other side" of the beauty of flowers, through the flower industry’s slave mechanism involving Kenyan prisoners. The oppression, sexual harassment and horrible working conditions are the main characteristics of the dark and inhumane world recorded by the director Ton van Zantvoort. One conclusion can be drawn from the harsh truth - the smell of imported roses is not sweet, on the contrary, it is bitter, sodden with human misery.
About the director:
Ton van Zantvoort was born in 1979. With his graduation film project Khamu Village he made it in the top ten best student films at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht. The year of 2006 has brought him the nomination for the best young Dutch director.
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