Girls Got Golds

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Miku Sato

STORY

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　The Olympic Games is a festival held once every four years. 　The ultimate goal of the Olympics is to promote human development and world peace through sports.

　After the 2020 Tokyo summer Olympic Games, the director, who currently resides in Amsterdam, decided to look into the 1928 Amsterdam summer Olympic games.

　The film features a Jewish survivor, Elka de Levie, who was a member of the Dutch women's national gymnastics team.

　There were five Jewish girls on the team, but four of them were killed by the Nazis during World War II. The film depicts the life of a woman who survived the Olympics and the war, moving back and forth between the past and the present.

CAST

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Caro de HORST, Katrien de HORST and others

STAFF

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Director/Writer/Cinematographer/Editor: SATO Miku
Choreographer: Kisako POSTHUMA
Script Translator: NAKAZAKI Mayumi, Makiko YOSHIMI-HOFSTRA
Music (Piano): Frans van RUTH

Info

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Year of production: 2023
Country: Netherlands/Amsterdam
Running time: 19min
Language: Dutch

Director

SATO Miku
Artist. Born in Kanagawa, Japan, Miku Sato received her Bachelor in Painting from Musashino Art University, Tokyo in 2009, and completed her Master of Film and New Media Studies from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019. Sato came to the Netherlands as a fellow of the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists in 2019, and she currently works in Amsterdam, Tokyo and Yokohama.
　Her art practice is based on the fieldwork of specific places, where she starts up a project, delegating her intention with the local people that she selects. Notable recent exhibitions and film festivals include 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands, 2023), 8th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (Taiwan, 2023).