Competiția de scurtmetraje romanesti

Durata: 57’28’’

Strigoi (România, 2021)

Regia: Aron Florian Anghel

Strigoi: The soul of an evil man that becomes a Vampire/Strigoi.  

Strigoi is the original ancient Romanian myth for vampires. Between 2005 and 2007 a massive "pandemic" of Strigoi occurred in the region of Oltenia from Romania. People went sick without a medical reason, graves were unearthed, having the dead slain, with their heart impaled and burnt to ashes. Five people were prosecuted for Grave Desecration. As of today, the condemned Strigoi slayers still claim that they saved their families from being taken to death by the unholy spirit.  This is the dramatization of their story.

Durata: 13’45’’

Condamnat (România, 2020)

Regia: Vasile Badoiu 

When Dinu, her husband, starts behaving bizarrely, Rodica struggles to understand what is happening to him and to help him. Disoriented and blinded by her own beliefs, she asks for the help of the village witch, in an attempt to heal Dinu from the ghosts of his past, but failing to understand the gravity of the situation.

Durata: 19’01’’

I sit and look out (România, 2021)

Regia: Gábor Balázs

The film consists of a coherent series of different absurd scenes that are constantly interrupted by the narrator’s internal monologue, which is about a photographic research. In the alternation of realistic and surreal images, the inner theme of the film unfolds, reflecting various social problems in the form of a unique artistic idea. The title I Sit and look out, and the three captions - which separate the beginning of the realistic and surreal planes - I See, I Hear and I Listen, together intend to unfold the theme or message of the film - through the images of the film - which ultimately calls for attention from the audience to one thing: to thinking.