Program Cinemateca Eforie

Directed by: Diana El Jeiroudi – Syria, Germany, France, Qatar, Italy – 2021 – 183 min   Synopsis: Perhaps the most difficult position in a conflict – since it is secluded, dismal and inglorious -, is that of an exile in a foreign country where the echoes of the horrors taking place at home arrive muffled, devitalized, as if unreal....See more details

Directed by: Sierra Pettengill – USA – 2022 – 91 min Synopsis: Riotsville is a fictional city erected by the American army in the 1960s, to serve as training ground for the increasingly militarized police, in the attempt to build a counter-narrative to the popular revolts and discontentment of those years....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

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

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: Mantas Kvedaravičius, Hanna Bilobrova – Lithuania, France, Germany – 2022 – 112 min   Synopsis: In 2014-205, Lithuanian author Mantas Kvedaravičius was filming the inhabitants of the Ukrainian city Mariupol, in a delicate fresco about the attempt to regain the sense of normality in times of conflict....See more details

Section: RESIST TO EXIST / EXISTÂND, REZISTÂND Regie: Abbas Rezaie – Afganistan – 2022 – 93 min Sinopsis: Abbas Rezaie, membru al echipei editoriale a cotidianului Etilaat Roz, cea mai citită publicație de jurnalism independent din Afganistan, presimte bulversările pe care le va antrena venirea talibanilor la putere în redacția lor și se echipează cu o cameră cu care va filma căderea progresivă în haos, actele de eroism, procesele de conștiință și hăurile de disperare care formează un microcosm al stării întregii națiuni....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

Regie: Rafiki Fariala – Republica Centrafricană, Franța, Republica Democratică Congo – 2022 – 83 min Sinopsis: Filmul spune povestea prieteniei dintre trei studenți la Economie în Bangui, capitala Republicii Centrafricane, și oferă o privire din interior, rară și prețioasă, asupra peisajului psihologic și moral al unei generații atât de îndepărtate din punct de vedere geografic....See more details

Directed by: Jacqueline Mills – Canada – 2022 – 103 min   Synopsis: A certain kind of form was needed to be able to render, on screen, the complexity of the colours, the textures and – ultimately -, the lives that pass through the hands of Zoe Lucas. For decades, the ecologist has kept a small island off the coast of Canada under observation, acting as a living, crucial memory of this natural habitat....See more details