Gaea Girls
Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
| UK, Japan
| 2000
| 106 min
‘All Women Wrestlers’ are celebrated stars in Japan. But before the fame comes excruciating training regimes for the young wannabe Gaea Girls. The fourth collaboration between Longinotto and Jano Williams immerses us into the world of a rural Gaea training camp. Following four hopefuls being pushed both physically and mentally to breaking point by their militaristic trainers, the film is one of Longinotto’s most physically violent and brutal films. Like the wrestling, the blood, sweat, and tears the four hopefuls shed are all too real.
Director Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
Producer Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
Section Retrospective
Festival Year 2013