Imagine, the Sky

Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky has made several films in recent years in civil-war-torn Sierra Leone, often about the institutions that help victims. She also helps these through the organisation she co-founded: A Grain of Change.
Her latest film Imagine, the Sky is a philosophical and observational documentary portrait of the pupils at the Milton Margai School for the Blind in Freetown, Sierra Leone. An improvised court in the school forms the heart of the film. An impulsive blind judge questions the teenagers from the school about their alleged crimes. Food turns out to play a leading role, and whether or not the pupils possess a spoon is the main thread in the story.
Who ordered the forbidden chewing gum? How did someone give his lunch to a friend? The schoolgirls in addition tell their allegorical stories, in which a spider may have a central role in a creation story and a baboon is the personification of evil.

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