Buy Me!

by Catalina Flórez / 59 Min. / Color - HD / Documentary / 2012 / Germany

Vivian designs lingerie for prostitutes. Together with her partner Michel, she sells her creations to the girls in Holland’s red-light districts who wear these “bikinis” to attract their clients.Vivian’s long-term relationship with the prostitutes allows the filmmaker Catalina Flórez unusually intimate insights into the mindset and the life of the girls behind the shop windows.The film shows the human side of what is otherwise considered a morally desolate existence for these women. It describes the search for quick money, freedom, fun, love, and a life between shop windows and relationships, between morals and compulsion; between beauty and age.

Festivals & Award

- World Premiere: 45th Hof International Film Festival
- Nominated for best photography, Deutsche Kamerapreis 2012
- Best documentary film, Sehsüchte 2012
- Best editing, Sehsüchte 2012
- Nominated for best documentary, First Steps Award 2012
- BAFICI - Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Argentina 2012
- 8th Berlin Directors Lounge, Germany 2012

Credits

With: Vivian Botero, Michel Mesander, Michelle, Tamara, Vanesa, María / Director of Photography: Tanja Haering / Editor :Kilian Schmid / Music: Frank Mueller & Andreas Fuchs / Producers: Anna Tasja Flügel & Stephan Grobe / Executive Producer: Hans-Hinrich Koch.

A Co-production of av-independents, SWR & Filmakademie BWFunded by MfG Baden Wuerttemberg.

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Buy Me!

by Catalina Flórez / 59 Min. / Color - HD / Documentary / 2012 / Germany

Vivian designs lingerie for prostitutes. Together with her partner Michel, she sells her creations to the girls in Holland’s red-light districts who wear these “bikinis” to attract their clients.Vivian’s long-term relationship with the prostitutes allows the filmmaker Catalina Flórez unusually intimate insights into the mindset and the life of the girls behind the shop windows.The film shows the human side of what is otherwise considered a morally desolate existence for these women. It describes the search for quick money, freedom, fun, love, and a life between shop windows and relationships, between morals and compulsion; between beauty and age.

Festivals & Award

- World Premiere: 45th Hof International Film Festival
- Nominated for best photography, Deutsche Kamerapreis 2012
- Best documentary film, Sehsüchte 2012
- Best editing, Sehsüchte 2012
- Nominated for best documentary, First Steps Award 2012
- BAFICI - Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Argentina 2012
- 8th Berlin Directors Lounge, Germany 2012

Credits

With: Vivian Botero, Michel Mesander, Michelle, Tamara, Vanesa, María / Director of Photography: Tanja Haering / Editor :Kilian Schmid / Music: Frank Mueller & Andreas Fuchs / Producers: Anna Tasja Flügel & Stephan Grobe / Executive Producer: Hans-Hinrich Koch.

A Co-production of av-independents, SWR & Filmakademie BWFunded by MfG Baden Wuerttemberg.

Produced by:

Supported by: