Program Cinema Muzeul Țăranului - Studioul Horia Bernea

Directed by: Ana Rieper Documentary – Brazil – 2024 – 76 min Section: Reverberations A documentary about the legacies of the Brazilian colonial condition present today in people’s daily life. With a musical narrative, and using archival footage of different natures, the film proposes a restless journey through relationships forged by the ownership of land and people....See more details

Directed by: So Yo-Hen Documentary – Taiwan – 2024 – 101 min Section: Dialogues Two poets meet at night in Tainan Park, creating poetry inspired by the day's experiences, weaving imaginative, fable-like verses that transform the night into a canvas of untold stories, with the storytellers merging into the tales they weave.

Directed by: Victoria Verseau Documentary – Sweden, France – 2024 – 72 min Section: Dialogues Victoria looks back in time to understand her transition and what it is that defines you as a woman. Having lost a close friend she shares her pain and embodied experience with Athena and Aamina, themselves on their own journeys of transition....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

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: 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: Mitch McCabe  Documentary – USA – 2024 – 78 min Section: Dialogues Part verité essay, part political diary, ”23 Mile” follows Americans during cataclysmic events in the swing state of Michigan throughout 2020 (including a plot to kidnap the governor), painting a complex portrait that defies media stereotypes, while forcing viewers to question their own assumptions about race, class, social status and geographical demographics.

Directed by: Igor Bezinović Documentary – Croatia – 2012 – 93 min Section: Extended Dialogues “The Blockade” is a unique view from within on the most massive, longest, and politically most significant student protest in the country, since 1971, that started in April of 2009 at the Faculty of humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb....See more details

Emerging Voices, a pilot program to support new voices in documentary film, will showcase four filmmakers this year: Alfredo Minea, actor and filmmaker, is interested in amplifying the voices of the vulnerable, being involved in theatre and film projects exploring the theme. In the programme, he will present the short film "35A", made in 2022, the story of the people in the block where he grew up....See more details

Directed by: Various directors Newsreels – Romania – 1940-1945 – 55 min Section: Extended Dialogues This past winter, one of the most searched for words in the Romanian online dictionary was „legionary”. In order to contribute to satisfying this curiosity and to add images and faces to maybe too abstract definitions, we’ve decided to put together a programme of newsreels owned by The Nation Film Archive from the years 1940-1945....See more details