Title: A Lua Platz
Director: Jérémy Gravayat
Duration: 1h 37m
Country: Franța
Year: 2018
A Lua Platz
In a Paris suburb, two men in a car make frantic phone calls to figure out a place where they could spend the night: this first scene in the film, which repeats itself in thousands of versions throughout Europe every day, encapsulates the immigrant Roma experience of the past few decades. In France, where Jeremy Gravayat produced his documentary, Roma have fallen victims to mass deportations, forced evictions from houses and informal encampments, as well as inevitably racially charged gentrification plans. In 2017 alone, 11,000 Roma were forced out of the places where they lived without being offered alternative accommodation. Out of empathetically-captured scenes and beautiful archival materials, this films constructs an alternative space where the history and the present of Roma can find a home, on its own terms, which alre alternately poetic and urgent. (by Mona Nicoară)
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PERFORMANCE PLAYHOOD: STEREOTYPE ALLEY
Theatre Show
“The Alley” is a typical Bucharest neighbourhood. Gelu B., Cerasela and Valerică Silicon are three teenagers from the Alley who take part in a televised game-show, called “Stereotype Alley.” The show is focused around stereotypes that transform, spread, are ignored, breed tragedy, but also comedy, get rejected, embraced, normalised or blamed. The contestants use elements of slam-poetry, hip-hop and contemporary dance in order to describe different forms of discriminations such as racism, sexism or homophobia.
“Stereotype Alley” is a theatre play by Playhood
Duration: 45-50 minutes
Text and stage direction by Mădălina Dorobanţu and Ionuţ Oprea
Cast:
Anca Enăchescu
Andrei Muraru
Vlad Roșianu
Anca Văleanu
Marian Costache
Andreea Ioniță
Alex Cristea
Florentina Gornistu
Robert Ronea
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What is Playhood? Playhood is an educational project addressed to children and adolescents who live in the Bucharest neighbourhood of Ferentari. They attend free drama classes, video-editing and sound production workshops, creative writing or storytelling sessions and personalised mentorship activities.
All group activities are coordinated and held daily by Mădălina Dorobanţu and Ionuţ Oprea, two professional actors whose intention is for PlayHood to become a cultural and educational hub, attuned to the cultural and educational life of Bucharest.
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The performance will start after the screening of the film "A lua platz" and is part of a series of events in which we celebrate the history and culture of Rome people!
The gates will open at 18:00.
* Please arrive at least 30 minutes before the start of the event to avoid queues and congestion.