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2008

A BLOOMING BUSINESS

Netherlands, 2009, 52 min.
Director: Ton van Zantvoort
Selection: Democracy/Export-Import

Within the selection Democracy/Export-Import, the
visitors of the Film and Media Festival Cinema City will have an opportunity to
see a touching, poetic documentary A Blooming Business by a
Dutch director Ton van Zantvoort.

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.

The film was made by combining documentary
observations with the “live“ comments of the main characters. With the key
feeling of what is human, the director van Zantvoort has, through the
documentary A Blooming
Business, successfully shown an entirely different world, a world where
every human life is equally valuable…

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Respect to Turkey:
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