Mountain and the maiden, NZ Premiere, Doc Edge Festival 2021 |
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Directed by Shmuel Hoffman, & Anton von Heiseler. The story of a day in the life of Aspiya, a 10-year-old girl living with her younger brother, older sister and parents in a one-room-shack in New Delhi near Asia’s biggest landfill.
Aspiya is the main supporter of her family. Every single day she walks up the landfill in order to collect trash that then will later be sold to companies that reuse the materials for their products. While the subtext is pollution, child labor, our modern lifestyle of waste the main thing is that you can be happy no matter the circumstances. This film is about the human crave for happiness and how, despite dire circumstances, your outlook on life determines the inner quality of your life. Doc Edge Festival 2021 will be in theatres (Auckland and Wellington) and online nationwide from 3 June until 11 July. Full programme release and tickets on sale, Tuesday 27 April. https://docedge.nz Doc Edge has received filmmaker permission to upload this trailer to the Doc Edge YouTube channel. |