Newly reconfigured, rebranded Lorber Films are hoping to join the Oscar pool with what on paper sounds like a throat-clearing type of doc film, but this uses a Calender Girls-ish premise to discuss human body deformity. Winner of 2009 Lola (German Film Award) for Best Documentary, Niko von Glasow’s Nobody’s Perfect will receive a December release. Looks like an endearing portrait times 15.
Filmmaker Niko von Glasow, whose short arms identify him as a grown-up “child of Thalidomide”, documents in this film his search for eleven other people affected by Thalidomide, to join him in posing naked for a book of photographs. With humour and a surprising lightness of touch, “Nobody’s Perfect” is a portrait of twelve extraordinary characters, from childhood to today. These are people who have gotten used to furtive glances from passers-by, but now they have to stand completely unprotected in front of a camera, and look at their own bodies in a new light.
