Australian feature length documentary about a poverty stricken family living in a squatter's dwelling in Manila, Phillipines. Doc is set during a three month period and tells the story of two parents with two little children who must sell cigarettes to survive. Ethnographic and anthropological film shows the crises the impoverished family must face and is the winner of a number of awards.
Released
Australia
January 1, 1983
(Sydney Film Festival)
Great Britain
January 1, 1983
(Edinburgh International Film Festival)
Italy
January 1, 1983
(Festival dei Popoli, Florence)
United States of America
October 1, 1983
(Chicago International Film Festival)
