Director: Shira Pinson
Producer: Sarah Tierney
Editor: Nigel Galt
Original Composition: James Burrell
Production Company: Clarity Productions Ltd.
Think you know Europe? Think again… Much of Eastern Europe has been devastated by the rapid transition from communism to capitalism. Fifteen years since independence from the former USSR, the Ukraine – Europe’s second largest country – is struggling to regain economic and social stability. One little-known consequence is the estimated 1,000,000 children currently living homeless on Ukraine’s streets…
“Flowers Don’t Grow Here”, 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. Young mothers, united siblings, close friends and sworn enemies form a troubling underworld of society, governed by their own rules, and haunted by prostitution, crime, violence and murder… modern, developed “New Europe” are about to be shattered…
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I am the guy who did the st. petersburg project with ten feet away, I would like to know more about this or stuff related to homelessness in Eastern Europe. My email is joseph_de_haan@hotmail.com
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