people her age, from different places in the country.
The 70 minutes documentary can be seen online, from 19:00 to 23:59 and the tickets are available on Eventbook, in the Elvire Chez Vous online programme, initiated by Elvire Popesco Cinema.
The film is the result of four years of work, with a screenplay developed at the Archidoc international workshop (Paris-Lisbon-Nyon) and it is a deFilm production, supported by the Romanian Film Centre in partnership with the Romanian Television.
During the `90s the summer vacations at the beach some announcements were quite frequent – on the megaphones and on Radio Vacation – about the kids that were lost on the beach by their parents. Being a child of those times herself, the film director Alina Manolache uses the symbolic load of those temporary losses and invites the viewers to an emotional labyrinth which seen from above lets the subjective image of a generation be seen.
Thus, she affectively creates a collective portrait, in different nuances, an empathetic look upon some brave, uncertain or melancholic characters for whom “getting lost” gets another signification. The question raised are numerous and diverse: Which is the pulse of the first generation born and raised in “the free years” after the Revolution? What are their fears? What are their thoughts for the future? How they imagined themselves and where are they now?
“Even if I didn`t get lost, along the years this question bothered me: what happened to those kids my age who got lost on the beach. Four years ago I started looking for the people who went through this experience and from meeting with them other questions appeared. In fact, the subject started refining itself more and more and different questions popped up: How am I today? How are they today? Isn`t it an interesting moment since we all turn 30? I could also think about the fact that we have almost the same age as the democracy in Romania and even if the film doesn`t underline these questions in an obvious way, I believe that in a subtle way they exist and I tried to give an answer by means of this collective portrait” Alina said on Radio România Cultural, on the occasion of finding out that the film entered the IDFA selection.
The film
was presented at this year`s edition of the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (December 18 - 29), one of the most prestigious non-fiction film festivals and also at the Astra Film Festival Sibiu 2020 and at Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest 2020.
