Venue | Meta House, Meta House, #37 Sothearos Blvd. |
Hosted By | Meta House |
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4PM: FEATURE FILM - 16-year-old Lilya and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilya falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilya to come along and start a new life. But all is not what it seems. Lukas Moodyson’s LILYA 4 EVER (2002, 109 min) is the stark, frank and disturbing vision of the life of a young victim of the underground sex trade and in all its tone of realism of abject poverty, despicable actions and of wanting to show that dreaming of a better life is not a crime but that life can shatter the illusion of a happy ending. It's an exceptional, deafening humanitarian alarm that will continue to overwhelm and outrage for years to come.