Alexandru Solomon
Alexandru SOLOMON (1966, Romania) is a Romanian filmmaker working as a documentary film director and fiction film cinematographer. Solomon emerged as a young director of photography in the early 90s. After graduating from Bucharest’s Camera Department of the Film School, he started making documentaries and filming feature films. Solomon is one of the leading political filmmakers in Romania and is active in the international documentary scene. His work has triggered public debates about the function of documentary film within the public sphere and contributed to re-establishing documentary film as an arena for re-framing Romania’s recent history. Solomon has directed and photographed over a dozen documentaries screened and awarded in European and international festivals.
Filmography
Earthcake (1993, short doc), Shriek into the Ear-drum (1993, short doc), 2 X 5 (1993, short doc), Via Regis (1995, doc), The Zurich Chronicle (1996, short doc), Viata de câine (1998, short doc), The Man with Thousand Eyes (2001, short doc), The Sweet Bread of Exile (2002, short doc), Marele Jaf Comunist/Great Communist Bank Robbery (2004), Clara B. (2006, short doc), Război Pe Calea Undelor/Cold Waves (2007, doc), Apocalypse on Wheels (2009, doc), Kapitalism – Rețeta Noastră Secretă/Kapitalism – Our Secret Recipe (2010, doc), Ouăle Lui Tarzan/Tarzan’s Testicles (2017, doc), Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife (2023, doc), Aparatele fotografice nu inregistreaza aceste lucruri/Cameras Do Not Record Such Things (2024, short)
Alexandru Solomon op IFFR
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Cameras Do Not Record Such Things
Alexandru Solomon | 24' | Romania | International premiere
Reality and fiction interplay in Alexandru Solomon’s investigation into the controversial Romanian Orthodox monk, Father Arsenie Boca. -
The Pharaoh
Sinisa Dragin | 82' | Romania | World premiere
Insights and views change over time. An old tramp can no longer remember his forty years as a political prisoner in Siberia. Dragin (Everyday God… -
Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth
Sinisa Dragin, Reuters | 93' | Romania | European premiere
Dark, Gothic, new Romanian cinema with a touch of the fairytale and touches of colour to its black and white world: a butcher out of…