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The audience could watch a video comprised of clips from this year’s documentaries, the festival’s first short film, Patriotic Lesson and a fragment from Gianina Cărbunariu’s show, “Artists Talk”.
and Europe, She Loves (directed by Jan Gassmann). Mona Nicoară on the Romanian documentary: “I’m very proud that this year we can present Țara moartă, a film in post-production by Radu Jude, to the One World Romania community and have a feedback. Although apparently simple – a juxtaposition of photographs from the Costică Acsinte collection, archive sound footage and fragments from the diary of the doctor and writer Emil Dorian – Jude’s film is one of the most complicated projects put forth in the contemporary Romania documentary landscape, not only because it re-constructs an epoch poorly represented in visual archive footage or in Romanian cinema at large, for that matter, but also because it explores complicated relations such as nostalgia/complicity, ideology/oblivion, image/sound, inviting us to meditate on the very nature and definition of documentary itself.”
