Joy
Joy is a young Nigerian woman caught in the vicious cycle of sex trafficking. She works 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.
Data
- Genre
- Drama
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Nationaler Film
- Format
- DCP, 101 Min
- Release
- 18.01.2019
- Distribution
- FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 11.949
- Funding Film Institute
- 487.042 €
- Share of total production costs
- 39 %
- Television investment
- 350.000 €
- Festivals & Awards (Selection)
World Premiere: Venice 2018, Giornate degli Autori
40. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (14.-20.01.2019) in competition- Funding program
- ÖFI
- first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service
- 04.07.2021
- Viewers
- 61.000
- Further information
- ÖSTERREICHISCHER KANDIDAT FÜR DIE NOMINIERUNGEN FÜR DEN BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM BEI DEN 92. ACADEMY AWARDS
- Film location
- Vienna, Salzburg, Nigeria
- Shooting time
- August 2017 - January 2018
- Days of shooting
- 30
- Completion
- Fall 2018
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien
Credits
- Production
- Family Pictures Film GmbH, FreibeuterFilm GmbH
- Producer
- Sabine Moser, Oliver Neumann
- Director
- Sudabeh Mortezai
- Script
- Sudabeh Mortezai
- DOP
- Klemens Hufnagl
- Editor
- Oliver Neumann
- Sound engineer
- Atanas Tcholakov
- Sound design
- Atanas Tcholakov
- Costume design
- Carola Pizzini
- Set design
- Julia Libiseller
- Cast
- Joy Anwulika Alphonsus (Joy), Precious Mariam Sanusi (Precious), Angela Ekeleme Pius (Madame), Christian Ludwig (Christian)
- Production manager
- Lena Krins
- International distribution
- Films Boutique
- German Title
- Joy
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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