No Candies From Heaven

directed by Vangelis Kalambakas

In today’s Ethiopia of 85 million citizens, thousands of children end up in orphanages each year, relinquished by parents who are unable to raise them or found abandoned by the police even a few days after they are born. These institutions offer them shelter and education until they are adopted, usually by foster parents from abroad. The film records daily life behind the closed gates of one of these orphanages, in which a hard-working staff of nannies, nurses and volunteers takes care of about fifty children aged from a few months to 12 years. Filmed in its entirety as cinéma-vérité, based on direct observation, it explores the complex fabric of the diverse, transient community that lives isolated in this home away from home.

Info

  •  DURATION
    73 min
  •  PRODUCTION YEAR
    2014
  •  COUNTRY
    Greece
  •  GENRE
    Documentary
  •  COPRODUCERS
    FilmSixteen
    2|35
  •  DIRECTOR
    Vangelis Kalambakas
  •  PRODUCER
    Vangelis Kalambakas
  •  DELEGATE PRODUCER
    Antigoni Gavriatopoulou
  •  CINEMATOGRAPHER
    Vangelis Kalambakas
  • EDITING
    Yorgos Savoglou
  • IMAGE PROCESSING, DCP
    2|35 S.A.
  • COLOR CORRECTION
    Manos Chamilakis
  •  SOUND RE-RECORDING
    Kostas Varybopiotis, Valia Tserou
  •  TRANSLATIONS – TRANSCRIPTS
    Azeb Workneh