20TH edition NOVEMBER 24 TO DECEMBER 2, 2023
20th edition
November 24 to December 2, 2023
Vlad Petri is a film director interested in political and social subjects, and often combines personal images with official archives. His films, which lie at the border between documentary and fiction, have been shown at festivals including the Berlin International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Sarajevo Film Festival, and the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. He has won three Romanian GOPO Awards, for Best Debut Film (2015) and Best Short Documentary Film (2021, 2022). His filmography include Where Are You Bucharest? (2014), The Dear Passed in Front of Me (short; 2020), The Same Dream (short; 2021), and Between Revolutions (2023).
Romania in the late 1970s. Zahra and Maria form a close bond while studying medicine at university in Bucharest. But when Zahra senses the winds of change in her homeland of Iran, she leaves the university and departs for Tehran, full of revolutionary aspirations. Separated by both physical distance and the precariousness of two political regimes on the verge of collapse, the friends correspond and report on their daily lives via letters. Created entirely from archival footage and tied together by a colourful soundtrack, Between Revolutions is an intimate, bittersweet memoir of people’s struggle for a brighter future and of two women’s unfailing friendship.
Director Vlad Petri
Producer Monica Lăzurean Gorgan
Screenwriter Vlad Petri, Lavinia Braniște
Editor Dragoș Apetri, Vlad Petri, Cătălin Cristuțiu
Sound Filip Mureșan, Vlad Voinescu
Colour Colour, black and white
Production Company Activ Docs, ReStart
International Sales Company CAT&Docs