Alongside the international documentaries panorama that it offers every year, One World Romania is also a display of the most exciting Romanian productions of the moment. The 13th edition which will take place from March 20 to 29, will include the screening of the first Romanian documentary selected in the official competition of the Sundance Film Festival, two previews and two of the most discussed of the latest days.
The new edition of the One World Romanian festival will open on Friday, March 20, 2020, with the screening of the film
Acasă - My Home, directed by Radu Ciorniciuc. It presents the story of the Enache family – its 11 members lived in Delta Văcărești, isolated by the society, with no documents and access to education or health for 20 years, until the place became a natural reservation and they got evacuated. The film received the Best Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival and it made history because it is the first Romanian documentary production that has ever been included in the official competition so far. Beyond its artistic value,
Acasă - My Home is also a humanitarian project which followed and supported the protagonists. The screening will take place in the presence pf the film crew.
Radu Jude will be one of the special guests of the festival, where he will come to introduce two films:
Uppercase Print / Tipografic Majuscul and
I The Exit of Trains / Ieșirea trenurilor din gară, which recently had the international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Both films try to demonstrate the polyphony of history in contrast with the perfect homogeneity of the official discourse.
The protagonist of the film
Uppercase Print /
TipograficMajuscul is Mugur Călinescu, a high school student and a hostile element of the Romanian socialism. “The target”, with anti-nationalist convictions and instigative attitudes, listens to Free Europe and scratches hostile slogans with chalk on the walls and his destiny cannot be other than re-education. Mugur`s story is narrated by the characters in his file, moved from the archives to the schematic settings of a TV set. the same story inspired the theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu, whose homonymous stage performance dramatizes real Eastern-European stories about the politic police systems from the Communist era.
Uppercase Print will be played on
scena teatrului Odeon Theatre stage on March 26, 2020, as part of the One World Romania Festival.
The Exit of Trains is made of tens of unique portrait-photographies, with the victims of the la Iași Pogrome of 1941, discovered in the archives by the historian Adrian Cioflâncă and by the filmmaker Radu Jude. They give an actual face to one of the biggest atrocities that happened in Romania in the 20th century. The rememberings standing out from the official declarations of the victims` families and of those who witnessed the events, prove the amplitude of the brutality of the soldiers and of the local people which led to the putting into practice of the criminal anti-Semite plan.The first screening of the film on March 22, will be followed by a dialogue with Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă, while for the second one, they will be joined by the historian and philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás.
Another preview will be that of the documentary
A Rifle and a Bag, recently screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the debut of a creative team made of Arya Rothe, Isabella Rinaldi and Cristina Haneș. Cristina made herself noticed in the Romanian film world with two medium-length films -
Antonio și Catarina and
Veghe. In
A Rifle and a Bag, the three directors follow a couple of young people, former members of teh Mao political organization who fight for the recognition of the heritage of the Communist party of India. They try to raise their 6 year-old boy and the baby born during the shooting of the film, though the restrictions of the caste they belong to, unbalances the well-being of their day to day life.
Finally, the viewers of the One World Romania will have the chance to hear about the odyssey that Alexander Nanau and his team went through in their attempt to show the story of the Colectiv fire and its consequences on the victims, the authorities and on the entire Romanian society. The shootings took place for more than a year and they entered the privacy of the survivors and of their families, as well as the decisional process of the cabinet of the Minister of Health of that time or the Gazeta Sporturilor editorial office, while revealing the scandal of the diluted sterilants used for traeting the patients.
Details:
www.festival-oneworld.ro
