So Help Me God is the first ever feature length Strip-Tease documentary.
Strip-Tease is a Belgian television documentary program created in 1985 by the Belgian RTBF. It became a popular and critical success, celebrated for coining a new idiom representing everyday life in Belgium and France. These observations and sketches, often very funny or emotional, sometimes turned to the disturbing. It was the TV before reality TV, in which storytelling gave real people an epic dimension. Their aim was to create a new kind of documentary in which the commentators disappeared, giving the subjects themselves a platform from which to speak and gradually “undress” or reveal their private lives to the audience, allowing viewers to learn about them on a deeper, uncensored level.
The extraordinary, offbeat judge Anne Gruwez takes us behind the scenes of real life criminal investigations. For three years the satirical team behind the cult TV series Strip-Tease captured what no one had dared film before. Unapologetic and politically incorrect. You won’t believe your eyes.
It’s not cinema: it’s worse!
2017 – France, Belgium – French – 99 min
Original title: NI JUGE, NI SOUMISE
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MOVIES THAT MATTER, Netherlands 2018
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AUDI DUBLIN FILM FESTIVAL, Ireland 2018
DOC POINT TALLIN, Estonia 2017
GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL, Sweden 2018
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ANGERS PREMIERS PLANS, France 2018
TROMSO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Norway 2018
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, US 2018
FESTIVAL EUROPEEN DES ARCS, France 2017
MAR DEL PLATA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Argentina 2017
IDFA – INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM, Netherlands 2017
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Jury Special Mention for Anne Gruwez
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FIFIGROT – GROLAND FILM FESTIVAL, France 2017
Amphore d’Or (Best Film Award)
Amphore du Peuple (Audience Award)