Yesterday, Sundance, the Film Festival started by Robert Redford, announced the films to be featured in the Word Documentary Competition. Among the films chosen is a documentary about sex offenders in Florida and the challenges they face re-integrating into the community.

Pervert Park / Sweden, Denmark (Directors: Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors)

Pervert Park follows the everyday lives of sex offenders in a Florida trailer park as they struggle to reintegrate into society, and try to understand who they are and how to break the cycle of sex crimes being committed. International Premiere

Here is the trailer:

And a description of the film:

Florida Justice Transitions looks like any other American trailer park. Only discreet electronic ankle tags and sporadic vandalism bear witness to the fact that the residents are all convicted sex offenders. From misdemeanours to monstrous crimes. And in a state with tough laws, this means in practice that the inhabitants are condemned to a life in isolation from society. The park’s residents are left to themselves to find out what comes after crime and punishment. The debut directing couple Frida & Lasse Barkfors take us behind the invisible fence of stigmatisation, lend a human face to an outcast community of demonised sex offenders – and forces us to take sides in a moral dilemma, which is more profound and complex than one possibly feels like being reminded of. For no matter whether the residents themselves are victims, one inevitably asks oneself if there are some things that can not – or should not ? – be forgiven. ‘Pervert Park’ is a sensitive and intimate film with a diabolic sense of not letting us off lightly when it comes to its inflamed topic.