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A Japanese cleaning woman hopes for a career as a pop idol, but ends up in prostitution. Gritty fairy-tale with magical-realism elements and animation.
Asuka, a young mother in Tokyo, gives everything she has got to realise her music dream. And successfully so. But everything has its price and via a TV talent show, Asuka ends up in the nightmarish world of prostitution. Feature film debut of Hendrik Willemyns, from the Belgian band Arsenal.

Title: Birdsong
Year: 2019
Duration : 1 hour, 31 minutes
Category: Feature film
Edition: NFF 2019

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