Austria has selected Joy, a sex-trafficking drama from director Sudabeh Mortezai, to be its contender for the 2020 Oscar race in the international feature film category.
Anwulika Alphonsus stars as the eponymous Joy — a Nigerian woman brought to Austria as a sex worker who is called on to supervise Precious (Mariam Sanusi), a new recruit who is not ready to accept her fate. Angela Ekeleme co-stars as Madam, Joy's exploiter.
Joy premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last year where it won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best film. Joy also won best film at last year's London ...
Anwulika Alphonsus stars as the eponymous Joy — a Nigerian woman brought to Austria as a sex worker who is called on to supervise Precious (Mariam Sanusi), a new recruit who is not ready to accept her fate. Angela Ekeleme co-stars as Madam, Joy's exploiter.
Joy premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last year where it won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best film. Joy also won best film at last year's London ...
Austria has selected Joy, a sex-trafficking drama from director Sudabeh Mortezai, to be its contender for the 2020 Oscar race in the international feature film category.
Anwulika Alphonsus stars as the eponymous Joy — a Nigerian woman brought to Austria as a sex worker who is called on to supervise Precious (Mariam Sanusi), a new recruit who is not ready to accept her fate. Angela Ekeleme co-stars as Madam, Joy's exploiter.
Joy premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last year where it won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best film. Joy also won best film at last year's London ...
Anwulika Alphonsus stars as the eponymous Joy — a Nigerian woman brought to Austria as a sex worker who is called on to supervise Precious (Mariam Sanusi), a new recruit who is not ready to accept her fate. Angela Ekeleme co-stars as Madam, Joy's exploiter.
Joy premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last year where it won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best film. Joy also won best film at last year's London ...
One need not take a class on the cinema of Todd Solondz to suspect that there may not be a great deal of joyfulness in a film called Joy Indeed, the second narrative feature of Sudabeh Mortezai–an Austrian filmmaker of Iranian extraction–shows us a world with little time for life’s lighter emotions. The Joy of the title is Mortezai’s protagonist, a Nigerian woman (played by impressive newcomer Anwulika Alphonsus), who made her way to Europe to find a better life but instead found the world of forced prostitution, horrifically trapped in a spiral of debt to the very people who brought her over.
The reality of this nightmare makes Mortezai’s film all the more potent as she chronicles the various lies these women are told, opening on a scene in which a teenage girl named Precious (Mariam Sanusi) takes an oath with her village Juju...
The reality of this nightmare makes Mortezai’s film all the more potent as she chronicles the various lies these women are told, opening on a scene in which a teenage girl named Precious (Mariam Sanusi) takes an oath with her village Juju...
- 12/5/2018
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
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