Inspired by real events, GIRL IN FLIGHT – LA FUGA is the story of 11-year old Silvia whose life at home is consumed by her mother’s clinical depression. When no one will take the time to fulfill her dream to visit Rome, she runs away, determined to see it for herself. On a train she meets a Roma girl, Emina, and begins following her through the streets of Rome to her gypsy camp. Shot in a real Roma camp using non-actors, the film also features the Italian stars Donatella Finocchiaro and Filippo Nigro. GIRL IN FLIGHT – LA FUGA’s beautiful imagery, captured by award-winning cinematographer Vladan Radovic (Donatello award for Anime Nere, 2015), reflects the tender, frightening and exciting emotional journey of a young girl coming into her own.
The three stories within Genesis explore the notion of family: a woman in her late thirties rediscovers the faith she lost as a child; a mother goes to extreme lengths to ensure that her daughter is saved from the fate she was forced to endure; a Roma boy’s family are killed and the perfect world of his childhood is destroyed. All three stories are linked together by coincidence, and these meetings change the lives of the characters.
Utbildningsfilm med tema ”12 frågor och svar om romer”
Romania is changing, and Geo, a young Romani coppersmith, lacks the means to support his wife and his six-year-old son. The farmers from the surrounding villages do not buy his copper handmade objects anymore. For Geo and his wife, Marina, going to France or to Belgium is their only option.
This is the story of a small community that lives outside the boundaries of so-called civilization. It is also the story of a place where tiny miracles happen every day. Not the syrupy miracles of the movies where everything fits a predetermined narrative structure. This film is about the deeply-rooted feeling of belonging to a place and a story. While making their film, the directors lived following the path of the seasons and the vital, existential rhythm that is ingrained in the fabric of life itself. The filmmakers adopt a careful observational approach that allows them to be admitted in a world that still manages to retain all its wisdom and knowledge, even though threatened with extinction. Walking the thin line between anthropological observations and a carefully textured cinematic creation, the film becomes a poetic and a political statement. Choosing the exact spot where the camera has to be placed thus becomes the filmic counterpoint to the very existence of the community, whose life reminds us to retain our human values against those who urge us to go global.
The very emotive documentary film “Ida’s Idea” follows the attempts of world renowned jazz singer Ida Kelarová to find talented children in the Roma ghettos of eastern Slovakia, to create a choral group with them. Accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic, they play concerts which serve as an inspiration to other Roma so that they too could find a way out of the ghettos. The film describes the 10 dramatic days at the summer school organised by Ida Kelarová for the children. All sorts of crises and obstacles are confronted at the camp during preparations for the major concert with the Czech Philharmonic. The film is dominated by the charismatic personality of the singer, who tries to get the best out of the group of children and show them a path to another life.
The documentary follows a boxing coach and his trainee from the very beginning to the first successes. Both characters are of Roma origins from the infamous Ghetto in the middle of Budapest. Misi Sipos (60), an ex member of the 8th district mafia, while recovering in a prison hospital after a shootout with a rival gang, turned to God and left behind his criminal past. As his personal “mission” he started a local community boxing club aimed at young children from troubled families, to keep them away from crime and show them an alternative for their future. Zoli Szabó (21) is one of these kids. He has been boxing in the amateur league under Misi’s guidance for 6 years. Zoli lives in a one bedroom apartment with his dad, stepmother, half sister The documentary follows a boxing coach and his trainee from the very beginning to the first successes. Both characters are of Roma origins from the infamous Ghetto in the middle of Budapest. Misi Sipos (60), an ex member of the 8th district mafia, while recovering in a prison hospital after a shootout with a rival gang, turned to God and left behind his criminal past. As his personal “mission” he started a local community boxing club aimed at young children from troubled families, to keep them away from crime and show them an alternative for their future. Zoli Szabó (21) is one of these kids. He has been boxing in the amateur league under Misi’s guidance for 6 years. Zoli lives in a one bedroom apartment with his dad, stepmother, half sister
Little is known about the tragedy of the Roma and Sinti during the Second World War. They were murdered by the tens, hundreds and thousands; in concentration camps, by the edges of mass graves and roadsides, by rifle butts, hammers or gas. Silence surrounds them. For years they existed and still exist on the edge of society. They survived and keep their memory and scars as proof. In a world where fascism is once again prevalent, they are one of the last living witnesses to the Holocaust. They exist with a hole in their head, an imprint from the past.
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