Toto and His Sisters Original Title: Toto şi surorile lui Country: Romania Year: 2014 Language: Romanian Subtitle: English Runtime: 93 min. Format: DCP Color: Colour Producer: Bianca Oana, Valeriu Nicolae, Catalin Mitulescu, Marcian Lazar, Hanka Kastelicova, Carmen Harabagiu, Antony Root Director: Alexander Nanau Cinematographer: Alexander Nanau Editor: Alexander Nanau, George Cragg, Mircea Olteanu Script: Alexander Nanau Sound: Matthias Lempert, Florian Ardelean Doc International Competition Romania | 2014 | 93 min. | Romanian | English subtitles | German Premiere The faces of the three siblings living in a run-down flat in Bucharest’s Roma ghetto are serious. Their mother is in prison for drug dealing. Their father has vanished. The uncle who is supposed to take care of the children has turned the flat into a meeting point for the neighbourhood junkies, getting his niece hooked in the process. If you expect a Roma, poverty, horror portrait now, hold your horses. Alexander Nanau, Emmy winner in 2010, is interested in a much deeper question: how do you escape from a life predetermined by social marginalisation? Toto, at 10 the youngest child of this torn family, finds refuge in a youth centre, spending more and more time in this place where a whole new world is opening up for him. A world that welcomes and supports him and shows him a way out of this nightmare through education. For a brief moment things seem to take a turn for the better for the kids. But then their living conditions strike back. Nanau has found a quiet, bright hero in Toto and an increasingly confident young woman who demands responsibility in his sister Andrea. Both embody a chance to cheat their predetermined fate. This makes “Toto and His Sisters”, however bleak it may be at times, a surprisingly hopeful film. DOK Leipzig, 57th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film DOK, 2014
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:50:31 +0000
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