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Viko (2009)
Directed by Larysa Kondracki
Overview
Former Yugoslavia. 1997. 17 year old VIKO shares a squalid, cramped apartment with his family, all struggling for survival. His only joy is with his girlfriend LILA, and their dream of escaping to London. When his older brother, IVAN, finally offers him some black market work, that dream suddenly seems within reach. Enlisted as a driver for his brother, Viko hopes to make his money and go. But instead, Viko is drawn into a web of sex-trafficking, when he is forced to stand in for a ‘disappeared’ member of the gang. Overnight, he is brought into the belly of an organization he might never escape. And into a role from which he may never recover. The story of a boy’s induction into a sex-trafficking ring, VIKO explores the devastating effect of violence on victim and perpetrator alike.
Length 17 minutes
Actors
Luke Treadaway | Sergej Trifunović | Kristina Malota | Rayisa Kondracki | Adi Spektor | Ivana Augustine | Natasha Blasick | Andres De La Fuente | Christine DiTillio | Sasha Golberg | Amelia M. Gotham | Christopher Haskell | Tina Ivlev | Rachel Kanouse | Kamran Pasha | Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper | Val Morrison | Wes Robertson | Sean Rogers | Drew Rosen | Natalie Shapiro | Arthur Victoryan