Documentary

Flowers Don’t Grow Here – Shira Pinson

Flowers Don’t Grow Here (2005)
Flowers Don’t Grow Here, told through the eyes of a gang of Kiev’s street kids, offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of the young individuals paying the ultimate price for political reform.

The film offers a unique window into the stark realities of life in a country in crisis, illuminating a nation seemingly paralysed between ‘old’ and ‘new’ Europe. Young mothers, united siblings, close friends and sworn enemies form an unusual underworld of society, governed by their own rules, haunted by prostitution, substance abuse, crime, violence, child abduction, and even murder.

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