Life is short

The film pictures the growing global antagonism: Neoliberalism vs. the real people and real problems of the world. The director Albert Hytteballe Petersen and his crew travelled in USA, Brazil and Britain to meet and film the people expelled from society because of poverty and unemployment. In the film we meet the people living in the streets or in Favelas, the people without work, the streetwise youngsters, and the mothers of young people with no hope for a decent future. All these people represent common sense, understanding of problems for the oppression of the poor and starving people in all the world - whereas the professors, the politicians and other experts express the cynical, liberalistic attitude towards the problems - poverty is an individual problem - criminals should be executed, poor mothers should be denied the right to bear children and so on. The film won the ITVA Silver Reel 1995 in the documentary genre.