“The Distance Between Me and Me”, the Premiere at the Trieste Film Festival
The documentary The Distance Between Me and Me / Distanța dintre mine și mine, about the poet Nina Cassian, made by Mona Nicoară and Dana Bunescu, based on an idea by Ada Solomon, will have the international premiere today, at the 30th edition of the Trieste Film Festival.
The film will be screened in the documentary international competition, alongside other 10 productions from countries such as Germany, Croatia and Hungary.
The Italian festival will end on January 25, 2019, when the winners will be announced. The Distance Between Me and Me had the national premiere last autumn, at the Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest festival, where it received the audience award in the section “Autumn Romanian Previews”.
The film will be out in the Romanian cinemas starting with march 8, 2019, distributed by Rollercoaster PR.
With a reputation of femme fatale, heavy drinker and smoker, the avant-garde poet, composer and a graphic artist Nina Cassian (1924-2014) was simultaneously an accomplice and a problematic person for the Stalinist regime; later on, she faced a direct conflict with the Ceaușescu regime and ended in an unwanted exhile in New York in 1985, after the killing of the dissident Gheorghe Ursu.
The Distance Between Me and me is a film about beliefs, art and power, which explores the friction between the personal memory and the official archives, between our actual reality and the narratives we build about the past. Nina Cassian`s thoughts from the last year of her life are confronted with a rich footage archive, music, poetry, TV appearances, unique private recordings and Security documents. Thus, ethical and aesthetic dilemmas are revealed, which are part of our past and also of our future.
The producers of the documentary are: Ada Solomon, Mona Nicoară, Diana Păroiu and Alexandru Solomon. Dana Bunescu was in charge of the editing, sound and sound design. The cinematography is signed by Ovidiu Mărginean and Rudolf Costin, the music by Nina Cassian. The graphic concept, visual effects and credits weremade by Șerban Jipa. The Distance Between Me and Me is a Hi Film Productions (Romania) and Sat Mic Film (USA), in collaboration with the Romanian television, with the support of the Romanian Film Center (CNC) and of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. Supported by: Orange România, Altex România, Cine Globe, Avon Cosmetics Romania, Renault Commercial Roumanie.
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