Friday, May 4th
6:30 PM
BORA, BORA
(Romania; Short; 2011. 30 minutes.)
Director : Bogdan Mirica
Producer : Andrei Boncea, Iuliana Tarnovetchi
A fisherman, caught in a drought and unable to fish, becomes unknowingly involved in criminal activities when he decides to grow crops for a foreigner.
Friday, May 4th
7:00 PM
TRANSYLVANIA GIRL (Fata din Transilvania)
(Romania; Short; 2011. 15 minutes.)
Director : Sabin Dorohoi
Producer : Dan Draghicescu and Crina Popescu
Somewhere in the heart of Transylvania, in remote villages, odd traditions are still present... In this beautifully shot short film from Romania, a young man traveling to Sibiu for a business meeting makes a wrong turn and sets off a surprising chain of events. Filmed entirely on location in...
Friday, May 4th
7:15 PM
BALKAN MELODIE
(Switzerland/Germany/Bulgaria; Documentary; 2012. 90 minutes.)
Director : Stefan Schwietert
Producer : Cornelia Seitler
Over 50 years ago, Marcel and Catherine Cellier traveled for the first time behind the Iron Curtain, where they collected the best music in Eastern Europe for years. Marcel Cellier assisted the Romanian pan flute virtuoso Gheorghe Zamfir and the legendary Bulgarian female vocal choir “Le Mystère...
Friday, May 4th
9:00 PM
CIGARETTES AND SONGS (Cigarety a pesničky)
(Slovakia; Documentary; 2010. 52 minutes.)
Director : Marek Šulík, Jana Kovalciková
Producer : Jana Belišová
In an evangelical church in Eastern Slovakia, Roma singers and Slovak musicians meet to perform and record an album of ancient Roma songs. While a gulf exists between the two communities, it is through the making of music and the discovery of their shared humanity that former “differences” erode....
