Waiting for Sunrise

I can fully understand how "Waiting for Sunrise" has won the UNICEF award for Best short film and also got shortlisted for one of the film world's most distinguished awards - the Grierson Awards for documentary in 2006. Poverty, child abuse and self harm are all covered in the documentary and such is the social realism of the film that it leaves us with a very visual implant in our thoughts. The young child's scars reflect the inner pain from abuse and the film makes no apologies for it's directness and treatment of such subjects. Nothing is implied, we are given an honest piece of documentary, which although may leave some of us; i believe, with a sense of hopelessness, the director, at least, has done their job and left us informed. I highly recommend this short documentary, we should not hide from what we cannot see, nor should we want to.