Skip navigation

Flowers Don’t Grow Here

Filmed over four months in Ukraine and told through the eyes of a gang of Kiev’s street kids – offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of young people paying the ultimate price for political reform.

Awards

International Human Rights Document 4 documentary film festival 2006

Documentary film Flowers Don’t grow Here has been awarded the Big Issue Social Care Award at the document 4 International Human Rights Film Festival. Sam Waylens – Chair of the award panel who selected the film from six said he and his fellow judges were struck by “…. an uncompromising and harrowing view of a world that few had seen before”. He added that it was ”…remar

Synopsis

filmed over four months in Ukraine and told through the eyes of a gang of Kiev’s street kids- offers an intimate and uncompromising view of a gang of Kiev’s street kids – offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of young people paying the ultimate price for political reform. Young mothers, united siblings, close friends and sworn enemies form a troubling underworld of society, governed by their own rules and haunted by prostitution, substance abuse, crime, violence and even murder…..

One Comment

  1. Posted October 2, 2007 at 12:32 pm | Permalink

    Want to start your private office arms race right now?

    I just got my own USB rocket launcher :-) Awsome thing.

    Plug into your computer and you got a remote controlled office missile launcher with 360 degrees horizontal and 45 degree vertival rotation with a range of more than 6 meters - which gives you a coverage of 113 square meters round your workplace.
    You can get the gadget here: http://tinyurl.com/2qul3c

    Check out the video they have on the page.

    Cheers

    Marko Fando

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *
*
*