Program One World Romania #16

Directed by: Nataša Urban - Norway- 2022 - 110 min   Synopsis: In “The Eclipse” Nataša Urban studies the ever-captivating play of refractions between individual histories and capital-letter History, with an emphasis on the members of her Serbian-origin family. In the interval between two solar eclipses – the one from 1961 and the one from 1999 -, a multinational state grows and develops, to then collapse in terror and pain....See more details

FORAGERS   Directed by: Jumana Manna – Occupied Palestinian Territory – 2022 – 65 min   Synopsis:   The documentary “Foragers” is the answer to an unmistakable filmmaker’s question: how to depict without epigonism what was already shown so many times before? Jumana Manna’s trick is as original as it is efficient: she picks out a plant – the za’atar – disputed by Palestinan and Israeli citizens, and turns it into an exquisite metonyny....See more details

Total: 74 min FAV - the 2nd Anniversary - România  1994, 4 min Marilena Preda Sânc - Mindscape Dreaming Mind - România,1997, 6 min Marilena Preda Sânc - About Oldness - România, 1995, 11 min Gaspar Csongor - Can I Swim When I Am Wearing a Tampon? - România, 1996, 9 min Geta Brătescu, Alexandru Solomon - 2 x 5 - România,1993, 4 min Nir Weiss, Marcel Scutaru - Scultura da Passegio - România,1995, 10 min Neil Coltofeanu, Gaspar Csongor - Spring - România, 1997, 3 min Radu Igazsag, Alexandru Solomon - Shriek into the Eardrum, România,1993, 27 min * This screening will take place in the presence of: Marius Șopterean, Radu Muntean, Vali Hotea, Csongor Gaspar, Vivi Drăgan Vasile, Alexandru Solomon Synopsis: FAV - the 2nd Anniversary - Romania, 1994,  4 min Two years after its founding, Vivi Drăgan Vasile makes an assessment of the Foundation: “An idea was born, namely that market economy should somehow also work in favour of the artists....See more details

Section: 24/7 Regie: Joseph Mangat – Taiwan, SUA, Filipine – 2022 – 120 min Sinopsis: Ce mai poate astăzi documentarul observațional? Pornind de la o premisă formală deliberat demodată, cineastul Joseph Mangat se insinuează cu finețe și flexibilitate în orarul de lucru al unor muncitori dintr-o fabrică filipineză....See more details

Section: OLD SCARS, NEW BRUISES / RĂNI NOI, CICATRICI VECHI Regie: Vitaly Mansky – SUA, Ucraina, Letonia, Cehia – 2023 – 97 min Sinopsis: Două priviri regizorale se intersectează în Eastern Front: cea a lui Vitali Mansky, cunoscut documentarist al spațiului ex-sovietic, și cea a lui Yevhen Titarenko, voluntar înrolat în lupta de eliberare a teritoriului ucrainean....See more details

Directed by: Želimir Žilnik   Synopsis: Little Pioneers (original: Pioniri maleni mi smo vojska prava, svakog dana ničemo ko zelena trava) – Yugoslavia / Iugoslavia 1968, 18 min   Socially neglected children, taking care of themselves, they dare go stealing and break the law....See more details

Directed by: Sergei Loznitsa – Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands – 2022 – 112 min   Synopsis: Named after the English title of W.G. Sebald’s collection of essays, which addresses the “representational amnesia” that seems to have struck cultural production in regards to the relentless bombings of German civilians during the Second World War, Sergei Loznitsa’s film is composed of carefully selected archival footage, restored and remastered in a way which aims to produce an experience of the sensations and the sights occasioned by such attacks that is as immersive as possible, as well as to describe the moments that preceded and followed them....See more details

Directed by: Želimir Žilnik   Synopsis:   Inventory - Strada Metz nr. 11 (original: Inventur - Metzstrasse 11) – Germany / Germania, 1975, 9 min Tenants of one old building in the centre of Munich are featured in this film: most of them are foreigners who work in Germany as “guest workers” (Yugoslavs, Italians, Turks, Greeks etc....See more details

Section: RESIST TO EXIST / EXISTÂND, REZISTÂND Regie: Botond Püsök – România, Ungaria – 2022 – 85 min Sinopsis: Filmul lui Botond Püsök își asumă din plecare o sarcină dificilă: aceea de a se insera într-un nucleu familial consumat de vinovății și traume și care, oricât de închegat ar părea, poate imploza în orice moment....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