Kohki Hasei’s film that lasts only 17 minutes, according to the reporter of Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, “speaks thousand languages” and has riveted both the Kustendorf Festival jury and the audience. Godog is uncensored footage of the daily life of children who work and play at garbage depots in the slums of Philippines. They are working in a sea of trash, bitterly struggling to survive and they call the dump yard “paradise.”
