Program One World Romania #18

Directed by: Matteo Severi Documentary – France – 2024 – 88 min Section: Exist to Resist The Citroën factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois suffered its first strike in 1982. It mainly employed immigrant workers in dire conditions. 30 years later, little has changed, as a new generation takes up the struggle....See more details

Directed by: Maciej J. Drygas Documentary – Poland, Lithuania – 2024 – 80 min Section: Reverberations “Trains” is a “found-footage” document consisting solely of archival materials, which creates a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies....See more details

THE DIARY OF A SKY Directed by: Lawrence Abu Hamdan Documentary – Lebanon – 2024 – 44 min Section: Reverberations “The Diary of a Sky” unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts....See more details

Directed by: Andra MacMasters Documentary – Romania, South Korea – 2024 – 89 min Section: Reverberations In the summer of 1989, thousands of people from various nations and beliefs gathered in North Korea for a grand student festival that championed peace, friendship, and anti-imperialism....See more details

Directed by: Ioana Grigore Documentary – Romania – 2024 – 70 min Section: Friends of OWR Leo Records is a symbol of musical resistance against authoritarian regimes and a pioneer of what we now know as avant-garde. It is the story of a man who single-handedly liberated an entire generation of illegal artists, musical misfits and Leningrad cowboys....See more details

Directed by: Benjamin Brown, Sam Chown-Ahern, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Georgia Kumari Bradburn, Lucy Walker, Steven Eastwood Documentary – United Kingdom – 2024 – 67 min Section: Dialogues “The Stimming Pool” is an experimental—at times fantastical—hybrid feature film, co-created by a collective of autistic artists, the Neurocultures Collective, and filmmaker Steven Eastwood, who invite you into a neurodiverse world within the undulating logic of neurotypical environments.

Directed by: Tudor Platon Documentary – Romania – 2024 – 88 min Section: Friends of OWR After 30 years of marriage, my parents announced me they were separating. In the midst of this painful process, I was falling in love and starting my own family. The film explores the different shapes that love can take between parents and children and children who become parents....See more details

Directed by: Kinshuk Surjan Documentary – Belgium, Netherlands, India – 2024 – 108 min Section: Exist to Resist Intent on providing a better life for herself and her children after her farmer-husband’s suicide, Sanjivani struggles against her culture’s traditional abandonment of widows, until she joins a discussion group with other farmer-suicide widows....See more details

Directed by: Pablo Álvarez Mesa Documentary – Columbia, Canada – 2024 – 76 min Section: Reverberations 200 years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign across Colombia, “The Soldier’s Lagoon” retraces The Liberator’s journey across the high-altitude marshlands, while searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory and reflecting on the construction of oral history and its relation to the land. 

Directed by: Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc Documentary – Romania, Germany, Netherlands – 2024 – 82 min Section: Friends of OWR Filmed across Italy, Moldova, and Romania, Tata is a raw portrait of a family locked in a relentless struggle against toxic masculinity and the tale of a daughter’s poignant quest to break the cycle for herself, the next generation, and even for the one who hurt her.