Films this year:
42. Hiroshi Shinomiya, Scavengers (1995)
A great documentary. Truly engaging. There is a slum called "Smokey Mountain" in Manila, where people are reduced to the life of scavengers--hunting for gabbages. In that minimally satysfying condition, their smiles are shining to break your heart. Poverty, hunger, war--such are the director Shinomiya's manifest enemies. A great soul he is. If I can join his spiritual-material quest in some way...
