ALICIA

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Alicia is one year old when she is removed from her home. Via a foster family she is placed into a children’s care home when she is five. By the time she is nine, she is still there, awaiting pl... More...

Documentary - Human Interest & Society

90'

Nomination Best Long Documentary - NFF 2018
Selected at Prix Europe 2018
Special Jury Award - IDFA 2017
Best TV Documentary Prix Italia 2018

Alicia is one year old when she is removed from her home. Via a foster family she is placed into a children’s care home when she is five. By the time she is nine, she is still there, awaiting placement with a new family. This is when the documentary ALICIA starts. For three years the film follows the girl in her daily life in close-cropped, observing images. These make the desires and powerlessness of the young, homeless Alicia, as well as the impact of a lack of perspective, palpable. Will the girl derail because of the hopelessness of her situation or are we witness to an inescapable history that repeats itself?
Maasja Ooms directed, filmed and edited ALICA to make a poignant film about a universal
theme: our need for love.

 

Documentary
Maasja Ooms
2017
Cerutti Film
90'
VPRO
 
 

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