Whores' Glory

Whores' Glory is director Michael Glawogger's third and final entry in his globalization trilogy, following Megacities and Workingman's Death; it's structured in three parts, filmed in Bangkok, the Bangladeshi town of Faridpur, and the Mexican city of Reynosa. The film won the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti section at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and won Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at the 2012 Austrian Film Awards. Critics praised the extraordinary access Glawogger achieved while also questioning whether his non-intrusive, detached observational style was ethical. Who it's for: anyone curious about a Venice award winning documentary that observes sex work across three cultures with a non-intrusive but debated distance. Who it's not for: viewers wanting an interpretive, narrated documentary, since the film deliberately stays silent and observes.