Alexandra Gulea
Alexandra GULEA (1970, Romania) studied at the art academy in Bucharest and graduated cum laude from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1997. She continued her education at Munich Film School where she studied documentary film. Her films have been shown internationally including Sarajevo, Rotterdam, and Leipzig. Her short film Flying Sheep (2022) won an award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2022. Maia – Portret cu maini (2024), IFFR 2024 selection, is her second feature-length film.
Filmography
Anonym (2001, short), Die vierte Wand/The Fourth Wall (2002, short), Hacker (2003, TV), Dumnezeu la saxofon, dracula la vioara/God plays Sax, the Devil Violin (2004, short), Today I Was Young and Pretty (2007, short doc), Matei copil miner/Matei Child Miner (2013), Kind aus Holz (2017, short doc), Valea Jiului Notes (2018, short), Flying Sheep (2022, short), Maia – Portret cu maini/Maia – Portrait with Hands (2024, doc)
Alexandra Gulea op IFFR
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Maia – Portrait with Hands
Alexandra Gulea | 90' | Germany | World premiere
Alexandra Gulea journeys back to her Aromanian grandmother’s world through a delightful mix of techniques. -
Matei Child Miner
Alexandra Gulea | 80' | France | World premiere
Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beauti -
God Plays Sax, the Devil Violin
Alexandra Gulea | 43' | Germany | World premiere
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… -
Asta e
Thomas Ciulei | 92' | Germany | -
Meticulously made, personal documentary about the Romanian village of Sulina. Ten years after the fall of Ceaucescu, its inhabitants still live in gre