14 歲的沙布是個充滿智慧、善良及活力的男孩,更是家人們的開心果。某天他不小心闖禍,撞壞祖母的車子,讓全家人都很生氣。在祖母度假歸來前,他可以成功彌補過錯嗎?一部有趣感人的家庭紀錄片,訴說對生活充滿想像的男孩,在炎熱夏天挑戰自我的故事,透過他的眼睛觀察這個社區,以及他生命中的三個女子—祖母、媽媽和女朋友。
“Dutch-Caribbean fourteen-year-old Shabu is a good-natured, creative, and street-smart boy from the south of Rotterdam. When he wrecks his grandmother’s car on a joyride, his whole family is angry with him. Will he succeed in making his family—and in particular his grandmother—proud of him again? A larger-than-life feelgood family film for young and old(er) to enjoy. A hot summer and a boy with a thirst for life, juggling the women in his life, grandma, mom, girlfriend.”
沙米拉.拉斐拉(Shamira Raphaëla)於1982年出生,是一位在阿魯巴長大的混血導演,母親是荷蘭人,父親來自庫拉索。她的首部紀錄片《Deal With It》是由真實故事改編,描述了有害的家庭相處模式和無條件的愛,該片在2015年贏得了多個國際小獎項。2018年,她在阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片電影節(IDFA)上獲得了卡琳.德.博克才華獎(Karin de Bok Talent Award),以進一步發展她的首部電影《Downfall of a Superwoman》的劇本,這同時也是她第一部作品的續集。
她接下來的紀錄片《Lenno & the Angelfish》則講述一個有行為問題的男孩故事,該片在2017年的阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片電影節上獲得了最佳兒童紀錄片獎,並在2019年柏林影展期間,由歐洲兒童電影協會授予了最佳歐洲兒童紀錄片獎。2019年,沙米拉憑借她的紀錄片《Daddy and the Warlord》獲得了荷蘭電影節上最負盛名的電影獎項——金牛獎,該片講述了一位女兒在戰後破碎的賴比瑞亞尋找答案的故事。同年,她還發布了一部具有爭議性的紀錄片《Our Motherland》,拍攝荷蘭右翼民粹主義和白人至上主義的崛起。
除了電影製作外,沙米拉還是荷蘭電影學院的董事會成員,也是鹿特丹國際電影節(IFFR)的短片節目策展人。她還在2020年的阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片電影節(IDFA)上與泰莎博爾曼斯(Tessa Boermans)共同發起了「我們的框架」(Framing of Us)計劃,旨在去除紀錄片產業的殖民化。
Shamira Raphaëla (1982) is bi-racial director, with a Dutch mother and a father from Curacao, she grew up in Aruba. Her debut documentary Deal With It was a raw personal film about destructive family patterns and unconditional love, that won multiple small international awards in 2015. She won the Karin de Bok Talent award at IDFA 2018 for further script development of Downfall of a Superwoman, an intimate sequel to her first film.
Her following documentary Lenno & the Angelfish tells the story of a young boy with behavioral problems. The film won the award for Best Children’s Documentary at IDFA 2017 and was handed the Best European Children’s Doc award by the European Children’s Film Association during the Berlinale in 2019. In 2019 Shamira received Holland’s most prestigious film award the Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival for her documentary Daddy and the Warlord, a daughter’s search for answers, set in post war torn Liberia. That same year she also released a controversial documentary about the rise of right-wing populism and white supremacy in the Netherlands, called Our Motherland.
In addition to making films, Shamira is a board member of the Dutch academy of film, short film programmer at IFFR and launched framing of us, together with Tessa Boermans at Idfa 2020, aiming to decolonize the documentary industry.