Festival 2009Balkan's Digest

BALKAN'S DIGEST ALMANAH BALCANIC
Documentary Specifications	Biography / Biografie
BALKAN'S DIGEST ALMANAH BALCANIC Balkan's Digest Ionut Piturescu Romania 2008 26 min. Director / Photography / Editor: Ionut Piturescu Producer: Ionut Piturescu Address: Ionut Piturescu, Sos. Pantelimon, 247, Bl.54, Ap. 30, Sector 2, Bucuresti, 7000, Romania Tel./ Fax: 0746240090 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it	IONUT PITURESCU Visual Anthropologist and director of documentary films. Participant at international courses, conferences, workshops and summer schools. Antropolog şi regizor de film documentar. Participant la cursuri internaţionale, conferinţe, workshop-uri şi scoli de vară.
	Filmography / Filmografie
	2009 - Kule – surviving Balkan architecture 2008 - Seize the time 2007 - Pity, bre, they don’t make us a road 2006 - TransClicheinia

Synopsis / Sinopsis

As a reminiscence of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Aromanian Vlachs blossomed into a cultural synthesis of the last Balkan millennium. Forgotten in the core of the south Albanian mountains, Grabova (1700 m altitude) is the most inaccessible of the 5, once flourishing, Moscopolitan cities. The last 300 years of Balkan inter-cultural relations challenged this historical urban network to keep alive its Aromanian Vlach culture. In our days this challenge transformed Grabova in one demographic winner: 50 families. Its destiny is most representative for the Aromanian Vlachs along many other cultures and settlements that share the South-East of Europe. In dialogic communication with “Reader’s Digest”, the film tries to briefly unwrap the elusive viscera of Balkan’s “Self-devouring” while being convinced it is devouring the “Other”.

Rămăşiţă a Imperiului Roman de Răsărit, comunitatea vlahilor aromâni s-a dezvoltat, transformându-se într-o veritabilă sinteză culturală a ultimului mileniu balcanic. În sudul Albaniei, uitată în inima munţilor, la o altitudine de 1.700 de metri, se află localitatea Grabova, cel mai greu accesibil dintre cele cinci oraşe moscopolitane, odinioară prospere. Ultimii 300 de ani de relaţii interculturale în spaţiul balcanic au determinat această aşezare istorică să-şi păstreze vie cultura aromână. Astăzi, Grabova este fruntaşă pe plan demografic: 50 de familii. Destinul ei este reprezentativ pentru cultura şi aşezările aromâne, printre multe alte culturi din Europa de Sud-Est. Filmul, al cărui titlu dialoghează cu populara revistă „Reader’s Digest”, încearcă să scoată la iveală tainele balcanismului „autodevorator”, dar convins că-l devorează pe „Celălalt”.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Programming / Programare
Monday 26 - Hall B - 14h25 / Luni 26 - Sala B - 14h25
Saturday 31 - Hall A - 16h15 / Sambata 31 - Sala A - 16h15

Films in Student Competition / Filme in Competitie - Student
7109 KM , Marcin Filipowicz, Poland
THE AMOUNT OF SMALL THINGS , Sophie Narr, Germany
BALKAN'S DIGEST , Ionut Piturescu, Romania
COUNTING LAMBS , Nico Sommer, Germany
THE CROSS , Anna Tokareva, Russia
DOING THE NORWAY , Gry Elisabeth Mortensen, Norway
ENDURING LIFE , Brechtye Boeke, The Netherlands
ETHNOSCAPE , Linda Paganelli, UK
FAMILY 068 , Toni Edo & Ruben Margallo, Spain
GAUCHOS: IF YOU DON'T GET ON, YOU WON'T FALL OFF , Jana Richter, Germany
HEALTH BUS AT THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT , Favre Laurence, Switzerland
ME AND MY LIFE WITHOUT SOME THINGS , Piperkoski Ilija, Romania
MODEL CITIZENS , Rebecca Whyte, UK
NO ES FÁCIL - CHILDREN OF CHE GUEVARA , Jacob Reinhart, Germany
ONCE UPON A TRAIN , Rosca Madalina & Vlad Petri, UK
THE PROZE OF TIME , Danilceac Oleg, Moldavia
RAPRESENT , Ivana Todorovic, Serbia
SOMEBODY LIKE ME , Ashley Shuyler, USA
UNTIL THE TIME COMES… , Zoltan Csubrilo, Hungary
WAITING FOR WOMEN , Estephan Wagner, UK
WHERE THE SUN DOESN'T RUSH , Matej Bobrik, Poland
WORLD NUMBER 2 , Jakub Vansa, Czech Republic

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

film screenings

AFF09 Film Program (.pdf)

Mo.26 | Tu.27 | We.28 | Th.29

Fr.30 | Sa.31 | Su.01

events

Mo.26 - Su.01

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