Festival 2009Funny Sisters

FUNNY SISTERS SURORILE HAZLII
Documentary Specifications	Biography / Biografie
View Trailer / Official Website FUNNY SISTERS SURORILE HAZLII Frohliche Schwester Bjorn Reinhardt Romania 2008 82 min. Director / Photography / Editor: Bjorn Reinhardt Production Company: Bjorn Reinhardt / Maramures Filmarchive World Distribution & Sales: Bjorn Reinhardt / Maramures Filmarchive Address: Bjorn Reinhardt / Maramures Filmarchive, Valea Vinului, 84, Viseu de Sus, 435700, Romania Tel./ Fax: 0040262352849 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it	BJORN REINHARDT Stage design studies. Freelance documentary director in Romania since 2002. Studii de scenografie. Din 2002, regizor freelancer în România
	Filmography / Filmografie
	2009 - Kalami 2008 - Funny Sisters 2008 - Mama Buna 2008 - Valley of the Tears 2007 - More or Less 2007 - Obcina 2007 - The Ingenious Amateur 2007 - The Collectors 2006 - Anyhow and Somewhere 2006 - Scafes Bruder 2006 - The Last Paradise 2005 - About Victim of Life 2005 - Village people, Bones and King Bogdan 2004 - Maramuzica 2004 - The Vision 2004 - Trilogy of the Drinkers 2004 - In front of the Gates 2004 - All The Best 2003 - Gagarin 2003 - Oblivion 2003 - 400 Persons Marriage
	Awards / Premii
	Prix National Geografic, 25 Festival International Du Films De Montage, Autrans, France (2008) Lessinia Silver, Filmfestival della Lessinia, Italy (2008) Grand Prix and Polish Federation of Filmclubs Award, Crossroads of Europe- The 9-th (2008) International Days of Documentary Cinema, Poland (2008) Special Jury Prize, Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania (2007)

Synopsis / Sinopsis

Sisters Maria and Ileana live in a “museum-like” home in a village in Maramureş. Their once numerous family now consists of just the two of them. Parents and siblings died one after the other while they, just helping each other, continue living as traditionally as possible: they weave, they work on the fields, they make bread, they cut wood, they breed pig to sacrifice at Christmas. Their destiny as the last representatives of the family, keeping up a whole household without complaining about anything, is an icon of the Romanian peasants’ destiny. Smart, hard-working, full of life, ready to do a man’s work, satisfied with little (“I just want to have what to eat today and tomorrow”), the sisters are charming characters with a caching optimism. A touching film about the disk of an era, accompanied by subtle smile.

Surorile Maria şi Ileana locuiesc într-o casă „ca un muzeu” dintr-un sat din Maramureş. Familia lor, cândva numeroasă, se reduce acum numai la ele două. Părinţi şi fraţi s-au stins, unul după altul, în timp ce ele, avându-se doar una pe cealaltă, continuă să ducă un trai cât se poate de tradiţional – ţes, merg la muncile câmpului, fac pâine, taie lemne, cresc porc pentru tăiat la Crăciun. Destinul celor două, ultimele reprezentante ale familiei, care ţin o întreagă gospodărie pe roate fără să se plângă de nimic, este o oglindă a destinului ţăranului român. Isteţe, harnice, pline de viaţă, gata să facă şi munca de bărbat, fericite cu puţin („să am ce mânca astăzi şi mâine”), surorile sunt nişte personaje fermecătoare, de-un optimism molipsitor. Un film emoţionant despre apusul unei epoci, cu un zâmbet tandru pe buze.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Programming / Programare
Wednesday 28 - Hall A - 15h00 / Miercuri 28 - Sala A - 15h00
Sunday 01 - Hall B - 11h00 / Duminica 01 - Sala B - 11h00

Films in Europa Competition / Filme in Competitie - Romania
APOCALYPSE ON WHEELS , Alexandru Solomon, Romania
AM I LUCKY? , Tudor Giurgiu & Oana Giurgiu, Romania
BIRDS' WAY , Klara Trencsenyi, Romania
CHILDREN OF URANIUM , Adina Popescu & Iulian Ghervas, Romania
CONSTANTIN AND ELENA , Andrei Dăscălescu, Romania
FUNNY SISTERS , Bjorn Reinhardt, Romania
MONDAY , Marian Crişan, Romania
MY BEAUTIFUL DACIA , Julio Soto, Stefan Constantinescu, Spain/Romania
TODAY I WAS YOUNG AND PRETTY , Alexandra Gulea, Romania
TWO OR THREE THINGS ABOUT ACTIVISM , Joanne Richardson, Romania
WE WEREN'T PEOPLE WE WERE NUMBERS… AUSCHWITZ , Mia Telman, Romania

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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