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Title: Joy (2018)
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Anwulika Alphonsus | ... | Joy |
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Mariam Sanusi | ... | Precious |
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Angela Ekeleme | ... | Madame |
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Gift Igweh | ||
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Sandra John | ||
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Chika Kipo | ||
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Ella Osagie | ||
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Eziza Isibor | ... | Juju Priest (as Dr. Eziza Isibor) |
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Glory Aghastmwan | ... | Girl at the Juju Ritual |
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Ernest Omachugbo | ... | Black Boys |
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Iwunnah Everlyn Nkechi | ... | Hair Stylists |
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Joy Utomi | ... | Hair Stylists |
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Jane Okoh | ... | Joy's Daughter |
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Jane Smith | ... | Foster Mother |
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Swantje Beckmann | ... | Joy's Doctor |
Joy is a young Nigerian woman caught in the vicious cycle of sex trafficking. She walks the streets to pay off debts to her exploiter Madame, while supporting her family in Nigeria and hoping for a better life for her little daughter in Vienna. Joy struggles to understand her role in this merciless system of exploitation when she is instructed by Madame to supervise Precious, a teenage girl fresh from Nigeria who is not ready to accept her fate. Written by Freibeuterfilm
Excellent film on the vicious circle of prostitution. That's the core of the movie: even if you get out of the business, something so intense happened that you will never be the same, and "virtue" will ellude you, even in subliminal ways.
But on the other hand this is a story about Nigerian women who go to work as prostitutes in Austria and get into debt, after making an oath with a juju priest to enforce the contract that the women "sign": it is a cultural bind, a process of enslavement from which there is no escape. For you may become "free" after paying your debt to a madam, but at home your soul is still a prisoner in the form of a charm that the juju priest keeps with him, until a relative breaks the spell, after the debt is settled...
Beliefs, life, survival. A very good film, made by a German filmmaker of Iranian origins. Many awards in Venezia, Chicago, Sevilla, London and other international events. Highly Recommended.