Trapped in his Own Movie (2022)

Andrei Cătălin Băleanu, the living ghost of the Romanian cinema of the '70s, is seen through the eyes of a young director at the beginning of his career. A young director at the beginning of his career explores the life and career of Andrei Cătălin Băleanu, a promising director of Romanian cinema in the 1970s. This film about despair and failure centres on an original and authentic character: a talented director who co-directed the documentary “Black Buffalo Water” (1970) decides to give up filmmaking when he was only 30. Today, he lives in almost complete povery. The intersection of two generations of directors of the past and the future of Romanian cinema, is immortalized in this documentary.