SISTERS ACT
SYNOPSIS
Sisters Act spotlights the work of Talitha Kum, an international network of Catholic sisters based in Rome that fights the trafficking and exploitation of women in the Mediterranean region. At the same time, the film sheds light on the contemporary mechanisms of human trafficking and the measures implemented by European institutions to combat it.
FEATURE FILM
FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, GERMANY
90 minutes, 52 minutes
WRITTEN BY :
DOP :
PRODUCTION :
DEA GJINOVCI & ANTOINE GOLDET
GRETA DE LAZZARIS
CHARLOTTE D. HAUSER
IVAN MADEO (CONTRAST),
JON COPLON (STAYBLACK) &
HEINO DECKERT (MA.JA.DE)
DIRECTED BY
DEA GJINOVCI
Dea Gjinovci is a Swiss-Albanian director and producer based in Paris. Her short documentary 'Sans le Kosovo' won the prize for best national film at Dokufest in 2017. She received support from the Sundance Film Institute to direct her first documentary feature 'Wake-up on Mars' co-produced by Radio Télévision Suisse with the participation of France Télévisions, and won the Perspectives d'un doc pitch prize at Visions du Réel 2018. ‘Awakening to Mars’ had its world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and at Visions du Réel 2020 in Switzerland, and at more than forty festivals around the world.
ANTOINE GOLDET
Paris-born filmmaker Antoine Goldet studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London before earning a master's degree in video journalism at Columbia University in New York. He worked as an investigative journalist in the United States the Center for Investigative Journalism and directed his first short documentary in Cuba for the Miami Herald, Upon returning to Paris in 2016, he founded his own production company, Amok Films, with director Dea Gjinovci. Antoine now co-directs two feature-length creative documentaries, Sisters Act and Vis-à-Vis.
