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Films
6 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Region
“South-East Europe”
x
Country
“Romania”
x
films with a digital version
1
short films
6
x
Region
South-East Europe
6
x
Country
Romania
6
x
Keywords
Animation
1
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Development projects
1
Elderly people
1
Festivals / Carnival
1
Folklore
1
Memory
2
Post-communism
2
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Travellers / Roma
1
Directors
Calugareanu, Ilinca
1
Grossman, Alyssa
2
Pratt, Helen
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Trentini, Michele
1
Series
Carnival King of Europe
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
4
not set
1
Country of production
Italy
1
Romania
1
United Kingdom
5
Year of production
1994
1
2002
1
2005
1
2008
1
2010
1
2011
1
Film list
Endgames
2008
32
‘
Directed by
Ilinca Calugareanu
.
The film follows a day in the life of Cluj-Napoca, a city in Transylvania, focusing on the way the lives of the three main characters – Valer, an 85 year old retired colonel, Daria, an 89 year old
South-East Europe
Post-communism
Elderly people
Memory
In the Light of Memory
2010
40
‘
Directed by
Alyssa Grossman
.
‘In the Light of Memory’ explores evocations of memory in contemporary post-socialist Bucharest, nearly twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of
South-East Europe
Memory
Post-communism
Into the Field
2005
28
‘
Directed by
Alyssa Grossman
.
‘Into the Field’ follows the everyday “secular” lives of nuns in a Orthodox nunnery in Romania. Documenting the nuns’ activities, relationships and roles within their community, the film also
South-East Europe
Religion / Belief / Faith
Animation
One day in Agnita
2011
10
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
Every four years, the new recruits in Carano are presented to the community in the midst of a complex carnival ritual called Banderàl. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 –
South-East Europe
Folklore
Festivals / Carnival
The Sweet Life and All That Goes With It
2002
29
‘
Directed by
Anne Schiltz
.
Although the Saxons arrived in Transylvania, Romania over 800 years ago, they have retained a strong sense of their distinctive identity and still speak German. After the Revolution of 1989, most
South-East Europe
Collective / Community identity
Travellers / Roma
Swings and Roundabouts
1994
30
‘
Directed by
Helen Pratt
.
Five years after the downfall of Ceausescu and Romania still receives an influx of Western European aid workers to help with rural orphanage projects. Temporary and full-time volunteers at an
South-East Europe
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Development projects