Giovanni and the Water Ballet

17 ^min

The Netherlands

Children's rights Philosophy of Human Rights

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Giovanni and the Water Ballet

Because his chosen field is viewed as typically one for girls, not everybody is as understanding as they could be. But Giovanni runs his own race, and his girlfriend Kim really gets what he is trying to do. When they are alone they chat about the future. Will Giovanni be able to take advantage of Kim’s support and make it to the Championships?

Director

Astrid Bussink

Astrid Bussink, born in 1975, studied fine art at the AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede, and film at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. During her studies she made the award-winning documentary The Angelmakers. One of her most recent films, The Hideout, won her the Golden Calf for Best Short Documentary at the Netherlands Film Festival. She lives and works in Amsterdam.

I felt so incredibly happy when all my students from Grade 8-A also (unanimously!) liked this film. Sometimes they laughed out loud, but in a second they fell quiet in a shared worry for the boy. They liked that everything was natural and frank on the screen, for example, the relationship between Giovanni and Kim.

Lyubov Maksymenko,

moderator of the Docudays UA film club at the Taras Shevchenko Secondary School № 44 in Lviv

Giovanni and the Water Ballet

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