Program One World Romania #16

Section: GOOD LIFE / VIAȚĂ BUNĂ Regie: Gianfranco Rosi – Italia – 2022 – 82 min Sinopsis: În primii nouă ai ai pontificatului său, Papa Francis a făcut 37 de călătorii în 53 de țări și s-a concentrat pe cele mai dureroase plăgi ale societății actuale: sărăcie, migrație, mediu, război....See more details

THE FABULOUS ONES Directed by: Roberta Torre – France, Italy – 2022 – 75 min Synopsis:   “The Fabulous Ones” takes its name from a group of transgender female friends who, having reached middle age, reunite in the villa that witnessed their process of identity formation....See more details

Regie: Shaunak Sen Țări: India, UK, USA Durata: 93 Anul: 2022 Synopsis RO: Într-o secvență frapantă din All That Breathes, protagoniștii filmului nostru se angajează într-o traversare periculoasă a unui râu pentru a aduce, de pe malul celălalt, un pui de gaie neagră care are nevoie de ajutor....See more details

Directed by: Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva – Bulgaria, Germany – 2022 – 113 min   Synopsis: When a small Bulgarian town is severly affected by COVID-19, the soul of the entire community of 50,000 inhabitants moves to the hospital – understaffed and under-resources, as is the case with this part of the world....See more details

Beyrouth, Never Again (original: Beyrouth jamais plus) – Lebanon, 1976, 35 min Letter from Beyrouth (original: Lettre de Beyrouth) – Lebanon, 1978, 52 min Beyrouth, My City (original: Beyrouth, ma ville) – Lebanon, 1982, 37 min

Directed by: Otilia Babara – Moldova, France, Netherlands, Belgium – 2022 – 73 min   Synopsis: During the 1990s women from Moldova began to work abroad to be able to support their families. Little by little, time and distance take the form of packages crossing the border: mothers used to send boxes of food and presents that one could only dream of back then and received video tapes with their children in return....See more details

Directed by: Anna Shishova-Bogoliubova – Finland, Norway, Croatia – 2022 – 92 min   Synopsis: One moment she is sitting at the kitchen table with her mother, the next she is in the courtroom, awaiting her sentence. The life of 17-year-old Anya changed overnight in 2018, when she was arrested, along with nine other adolescents, accused of forming an extremist group which was planning to overthrow the government....See more details

Directed by: Andrei Schwartz – Germany – 2021 – 90 min   Synopsis: “Europa Passage”: not only the name of a famous commercial centre in Hamburg – but also, whether one likes it or not, a wider present reality, which for many Romanians turns emigration in a bitter baptism by fire....See more details

Directed by: Cem Kaya – Germany – 2022 – 96 min   Synopsis:   “Love, Deutschmarks and Death” represents the odyssey of an uprooted people that is still searching for a place to call home. The history of Turkish immigrants in Germany, stretching between the beginning of the 1960s and the present day here takes the form of a graceful lament, where the need to adjust oneself and to belong, homesickness, as well as social changes blend together to the jarring tunes of the likes of Cem Karaca, protest icon of the FRG, or Muhabbet, the famour rapper of the 2000s generation....See more details

Directed by: Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré – France – 2022 – 123 min   Synopsis: “Crossing Voices” is a profound cinematic experience which manages to captivate aesthetically and to provoke intellectually. By using a rare sound and image archive belonging, for the most part, to co-director Bouba Touré (whose role was simultaneously that of worker, activist, and documentarian), the film tells the story of an agricultural cooperative which West African immigrants, fed up with the humiliations and the underpaid work endured in France, created in Mali in 1977....See more details