Program Cinema Elvire Popesco

Directed by: Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré – France – 2022 – 123 min   Synopsis: “Crossing Voices” is a profound cinematic experience which manages to captivate aesthetically and to provoke intellectually. By using a rare sound and image archive belonging, for the most part, to co-director Bouba Touré (whose role was simultaneously that of worker, activist, and documentarian), the film tells the story of an agricultural cooperative which West African immigrants, fed up with the humiliations and the underpaid work endured in France, created in Mali in 1977....See more details

Section: 24/7 Regie: Jessica Johnson, Ryan Ermacora – Canada – 2022 – 87 min Sinopsis: Pentru primul lor lungmetraj, tandemul de cineaști Jessica Johnson și Ryan Ermacora se fixează asupra rămășițelor unui oraș industrial din Nord-Vestul Canadei, unul dintre multe așezăminte al căror rost inițial de a fi un focar al extracției avide a resurselor naturale nu s-a putut preschimba niciodată în tipul de dinamică de întrajutorare și de producție responsabilă care stă la baza fondării unei comunități....See more details

Directed by: Alex Sardà – Spain – 2022 – 78 min   Synopsis:   “Hafreiat,” the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker Alex Sardà, is a documentary of great stylistic discretion, which practices a passionate, albeit noninvasive form of militancy....See more details

Palestinian Women (original: Les Femmes Palestiniennes) – France, 1974, 15 min The Woman Killer(original: La Tueuse) – France, 1988, 10 min The Lady of Saigon (original: La Dame de Saigon) – France, 1998, 60 min Imaginary Postcard / (original: Imaginary Postcard) – Turkey 2016, 16 min

Directed by: Patricio Guzmán – Chile, France – 2022 – 83 min   Synopsis:   Veteran director Patricio Guzman’s latest film follows the trajectory of the Chilean nation, starting from the outbreak of the popular uprisings in 2019, sparked by increasing subway fares....See more details

As part of Europavox Bucharest festival by Control Club, the French Institute in Romania and Europavox present the second edition of “What’s next for European music?”. On April 5th, professionals of the music and cultural sector are invited to join panels and workshops, to discuss today’s and tomorrow’s stakes of European policies and practices....See more details

Directed by: Jacqueline Mills – Canada – 2022 – 103 min   Synopsis: A certain kind of form was needed to be able to render, on screen, the complexity of the colours, the textures and – ultimately -, the lives that pass through the hands of Zoe Lucas. For decades, the ecologist has kept a small island off the coast of Canada under observation, acting as a living, crucial memory of this natural habitat....See more details

THE FABULOUS ONES Directed by: Roberta Torre – France, Italy – 2022 – 75 min Synopsis:   “The Fabulous Ones” takes its name from a group of transgender female friends who, having reached middle age, reunite in the villa that witnessed their process of identity formation....See more details

Directed by: Nataša Urban - Norway- 2022 - 110 min   Synopsis: In “The Eclipse” Nataša Urban studies the ever-captivating play of refractions between individual histories and capital-letter History, with an emphasis on the members of her Serbian-origin family. In the interval between two solar eclipses – the one from 1961 and the one from 1999 -, a multinational state grows and develops, to then collapse in terror and pain....See more details

Directed by: Želimir Žilnik   Synopsis: Little Pioneers (original: Pioniri maleni mi smo vojska prava, svakog dana ničemo ko zelena trava) – Yugoslavia / Iugoslavia 1968, 18 min   Socially neglected children, taking care of themselves, they dare go stealing and break the law....See more details