IFFR 2004

Robert Duvall

The first feature by Duvall is a special and true-to-life portrait of a Roma community in New York, performed by Roma in their own language.

Romani

Angelo My Love

Pisla Helmstetter

A home video made by a French Manouche Romani woman about her family, their life, love for nature and respect for their own culture.

De la source a la mer

Dorota Kedzierzawska

Artistic very rich and mature film that honestly tries to reflect the difficult relationship between the the Poles and nomadic Roma.

Diably Diably

Melanie Spitta

Katrin Seybold

Melanie Spitte

Were the Sinti 'compensated' after their persecution by the Nazis? Classic document about a gruesome mechanism. Or how the Gypsies were still seen as a guilty party and culprits were regarded as independent experts.

Das falsche Wort

Emil Loteanu

A classic love story based on Gorky, filled with beautiful Gypsy music that has achieved cult status.

Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven

Aleksander Petrovic

A rough and beautiful poem about the irrational freedom of a Gypsy community in the countryside of Vojvodina, made in the documentary style of the Yugoslav 'Black Wave' in the 1960s.

I Met Some Happy Gypsies Too

Carin Goeijers

A warm portrait of the disappearing Sinti culture and a musical adventure with and about the singer Rein Marcha.

I SOENI - De droom

Ralph Marschalleck

Ralf Marschalleck

A swinging documentary about the discovery and rise to worldwide fame of the Romanian brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia.

IAG BARI: Brass on Fire

Paul Tanicui

Documentary about musicians in a Romanian village who seek happiness, respect and recognition for their work and existence and even taught Johnny Depp how to play Gypsy music in Chocolat.

Iagalo

Bahman Kiarostami

An unusual and poetic insight into the life of the Godars, a group of Roma in Northern Iran who still have traditional trades.

Infidels

Dufunya Vishnevsky

Crime drama shows the life of urban Roma in changing modern Russian society in the 1990s.

It's All My Fault

Pepe Ozan

Melitta Tchaicovsky Greene

A beautiful and colourful picture of a disappearing nomad community in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India. This film provides an insight into the roots of the European Roma. With very emotional Rajastani music.

Jaisalmer Ayo! Gateway of the Gypsies

MOSHE PESACH

Moshe Pesach

A short film full of flamenco dance shows how fascinating Gypsy culture can be...

Judio - Gitano

Zelimir Zilnik

This realistic documentary shows, with implicit criticism, how Roma are sent "back home" after a few years in Germany. Explosive.

Kenedi Goes Back Home

Livia Gyarmathy

Documentary-like film about the sad fate of a Roma man who loses his wife and tries not to lose his face.

Koportos

Tony Gatlif

A magical musical documentary, that starts its journey in India and follows the culture of the Roma through the Middle East, Eastern and Central Europe, with the various forms of songs, dance and local traditions.

Latcho drom

Hannah Collins

La Mina

Garri Bardine

A colourful animation film offers an explanation for the nomadic behaviour of the Roma.

Once We Were Birds

Dusan Hanák

Dusan Hanak

A lyrical and poetic film about the love between two young people, a 'gadjo' (non-Roma) and a beautiful Gypsy girl who is not able to survive as a result of the prejudice of the Slovak rural community.

Pink Dreams

Tonino Zangardi

This realistic, sociological drama dissects the relations between the inhabitants of a Pasolini-like Italian suburb and a Gypsy camp. With another beautiful role by Valeria Golino, the star of Respiro (IFFR 2003).

Prendimi e portami via

This film, that is regarded as the first production about Roma made by a Roma film maker, shows the harsh life of a 'settled' Roma in an outer suburb of Paris.

Les Princes

Róbert Pölcz

Boglárka Pölcz

An almost ethnographic short film with an artistic coating about the free and carefree nature of Roma children.

Safari

Portrait of two young Sinti who talk about themselves, their people and their habits. How a deceived people see themselves.

Schimpft uns nicht Zigeuner

Dufunya Vishnevski

Vladimir Dmitriyevsky

The only feature in the history of Russian cinema about the tragic fate of the Roma during the Second World War.

Sinful Apostles of Love

Mira Erdevicki

An intimate documentary about the vicissitudes of a Czech Roma family that is waiting for the result of their asylum request in the United Kingdom.

Somewhere Better

Sinisa Dragin

A group of Romanian Roma invents a way to survive: they dig illegally for oil in a well near an oil refinery. No words but beautiful music by Taraful din Clejani.

The Sorrow of Black Gold

Emir Kusturica

This story, based on real practices, approaches Yugoslav child smuggling in the 1980s with poetic magic realism and a trace of suspicion and mystery - typical of Emir Kusturica.

Time of the Gypsies

Helena Trestikova

A special documentary about the life of Jarmila Balazova, a young Czech reporter of Roma origins, made over a period of five years.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025