Overview of articles
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Karpotrotter
Around 1970, young filmmaker Karpo Godina took his camera on a trip around Vojvodina and made an unusual ‘road movie’, Imam jednu kucu (I Have…Published on: -
Papusza
Biopic about the rise and fall of Papusza, the most famous Roma poet ever. Her discovery by Jerzy Ficowski made her a literary sensation, although…Published on: -
Les Princes
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…Published on: -
Time of the Gypsies
This story, based on real practices, approaches Yugoslav child smuggling in the 1980s with poetic magic realism and a trace of suspicion and mystery –Published on: -
It’s All My Fault
Crime drama shows the life of urban Roma in changing modern Russian society in the 1990s.Published on: -
God Plays Sax, the Devil Violin
Inside a Romanian psychiatric institution, the patients form a closed community for lack of therapy and work. Edited in an essayist way, but shot in…Published on: -
Once We Were Birds
A colourful animation film offers an explanation for the nomadic behaviour of the Roma.Published on: -
The Sorrow of Black Gold
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…Published on: -
Somewhere Better
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.Published on: -
IAG BARI: Brass on Fire
A swinging documentary about the discovery and rise to worldwide fame of the Romanian brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia.Published on: